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PRESENTED BY STATE THEATRE COMPANY IN ASSOCIATION WITH ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE

By Kate Hamill
Based on the novel by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

Season Finished
Dunstan Playhouse

Dates & Times

Subscriber Briefing

May

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Auslan Interpreted
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Preview
ON
Opening Night
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Captioned
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Audio Described
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Off Stage Post-Show Party
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Keith's Matinee Club
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Post-show Q&A

Sponsors

BY ARRANGEMENT WITH HAL LEONARD AUSTRALIA PTY LTD ON BEHALF OF DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE, INC.

THE WORLD PREMIERE OF SENSE AND SENSIBILITY WAS PRODUCED BY BEDLAM (ERIC TUCKER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR; ANDRUS NICHOLS, PRODUCING DIRECTOR).

KEITH’S MATINEE CLUB
PLEASE NOTE THAT KEITH’S MATINEE CLUB ON MAY 23 WILL BE PRESENTED BY GEORDIE BROOKMAN.

Kate Hamill’s sparkling adaptation of Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen on theatrical steroids. In the hands of the State Theatre Company Ensemble it will be a night at the theatre that you won’t want to miss.

The newly widowed Mrs Dashwood, under much reduced circumstances, must move herself and her three daughters, the very sensible Elinor, the wild romantic Marianne and the spirited Margaret, from their grand family home to a modest cottage. But reduced social circumstances do not lead to a reduction in troubles of the heart. Suitors circle and gossip swirls as all of the Dashwoods try to find their place in the world.

Jane Austen’s masterpiece is a precision guided literary missile of wit and warmth. In playwright Kate Hamill she’s found her theatrical match as verve and invention is brought to bear on the Dashwood’s every move.

  • Please access a PDF of Sense and Sensibility pre-show notes here.

    Please access a .docx version of Sense and Sensibility pre-show notes here.

  • Director

    Geordie Brookman

  • Designer

    Ailsa Paterson

  • Lighting Designer

    Geoff Cobham

  • Cast includes

    The State Theatre Company Ensemble: Rachel Burke, Miranda Daughtry, Rashidi Edward, Dale March, Nathan O’Keefe, Anna Steen; with Lizzy Falkland,Geoff Revell and Caroline Mignone.

Dates & Times

Subscriber Briefing

May

    • P
    • P
    • P
    • ON
    • AS
    • OS
    • AS
    • AD
    • QA
    • C
    • K
    • C
    • AD
AS
Auslan Interpreted
P
Preview
ON
Opening Night
C
Captioned
AD
Audio Described
OS
Off Stage Post-Show Party
K
Keith's Matinee Club
QA
Post-show Q&A

Sponsors

BY ARRANGEMENT WITH HAL LEONARD AUSTRALIA PTY LTD ON BEHALF OF DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE, INC.

THE WORLD PREMIERE OF SENSE AND SENSIBILITY WAS PRODUCED BY BEDLAM (ERIC TUCKER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR; ANDRUS NICHOLS, PRODUCING DIRECTOR).

KEITH’S MATINEE CLUB
PLEASE NOTE THAT KEITH’S MATINEE CLUB ON MAY 23 WILL BE PRESENTED BY GEORDIE BROOKMAN.

"Hamill’s script retains Austen’s vision of the British landed gentry, and turns it up to eleven."

— GlamAdelaide

"Wes Anderson meets classic British literature."

— Kryztoff

"As Marianne, Miranda Daughtry shows why she’s one of the fastest rising stars in Australia theatre."

— The Advertiser

"Highly entertaining, and fundamentally true to Jane."

— The Australian

"...Comedy is cranked to the max."

— InDaily

‘Kate Hamill’s marvelous play is one of the finest stage adaptations of a literary classic. Our Jane would have expressed her approval’

— TheaterScene.net

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