Review: 'Emma' keeps the laughs coming at the Guthrie Theater
The world premiere adaptation of Jane Austen's novel is a hoot that also finds the hurt behind the humor.
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The world premiere adaptation of Jane Austen's novel is a hoot that also finds the hurt behind the humor.
LENOX â Very little is conventional about Emma Woodhouse, the eponymous would-be matchmaker heroine of Jane Austen's fourth novel; the last to be published in her lifetime. Before she began writing "Emma," Austen famously described her as a heroine "no one but myself will much like." Austen was wrong. Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's more popular characters. "Emma" has been adapted for the movies â eight times; and multiple times on television, the stage, YouTube. Now, it's playwright Kate Hamill's turn. Hamill's "Emma," a new play-in-development, will be presented by Shakespeare...