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'April' is indeed enchanted

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From: Oakland Tribune
Date: 20060404
Author:Ed Pliska, CONTRIBUTOR

'ECHANTED April" was a highly successful movie with extraordinarily beautiful scenery of Italy. It is difficult to believe that, without the scenery, it can be an equally successful play.

But believe it! Playwright Matthew Barber, whose play, like the movie, is based on the 1921 novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, has brilliantly captured the essence of the movie's enchantment.

Two Englishwomen, Lotty Wilton (Deborah Joves) and Rose Arnott (Mary Waterfield), chance to meet at a lady's club in London. They are totally unlike each other. Lotty is exuberant and effervescent while Rose is reserved and ...

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