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COMIC TOUCHES ENLIVEN THIS `PRIDE'

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20050614
Author:Ryan McKittrick, Globe Correspondent

By the end of the first act of the Wellesley Summer Theatre Company's production of "Pride and Prejudice," it's clear why the troupe chose to adapt Jane Austen's 1813 novel for the stage. In the first half of this nearly three-hour production, a circle of family members, friends, and enemies delights the audience with their haughtiness, self-delusions, wry impertinence, and caustic candor. Building the momentum and tone of the production around the humor in Austen's novel, director and adapter Andrea Kennedy has staged a production in which comic characterizations overshadow the romance ...

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