Getting Local With Jane: Summer Events Edition
Welcome to Getting Local With Jane, our weekly (most of the time) post featuring upcoming local events of interest to Jane Austen fans. It’s summertime and the Janeitein’ is easy if your town is on the list below; if it isn’t, check back, because you never know when a Jane Austen event will come your way.
May 23-June 7, 2009, Fort Collins, Colorado: Open Stage Theatre & Company presents Pride and Prejudice (the Jon Jory adaptation) at Lincoln Center. Tickets are $14-20 and are available online.
May 30, 2009, Los Angeles, California: Twelfth Annual Jane Austen Ball in the Rotunda at UCLA’s Powell Library. It looks like admission is free (not sure) but reservations are required.
June 6, 2009, Allentown, Pennsylvania: A screening of Sense and Sensibility 1995 at the Civic Theatre of Allentown in conjunction with the Allentown Art Museum’s Fashion in Film exhibition. Tickets are $8-10 and are available at the box office.
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*Sigh* Why does everyone insist that Jane was a Victorian writer? The article about the screening of Sense and Sensibility says that Civic Theatre Actors would be at the event dressed in Victorian costumes to go with the film. Victoria didn’t come into power until 1837, Jane died twenty years before that!
Yes, people who know neither 19th century literature nor history, are the ones who think that “Victorian” = “everything after Marie Antoinette and before WW2″ …
Anyway, here’s another event:
June 14, 2009, San Francisco, CA: Mrs. Darcy’s Regency Tea. Put on by the Greater Bay Area Costumer’s Guild. Tickets on sale until June 4, price is $25 (I think). Attendees are encouraged to come in Regency costume, and act as a Jane Austen character. [NOTE: Elizabeth Bennet, or Mrs. Darcy, is already taken!] More information at http://www.gbacg.org/current/mrs-darcys-tea.html.