We are delighted with all these stage productions of Jane Austen novels lately; we just wish they were being staged somewhere closer to AustenBlog World Headquarters!

Tucson Weekly reviews the Arizona Theatre Company production of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. One thumb up, sort of.

This would be a fabulous production if it weren’t for one thing: The depiction of the central character is absolutely wrong.

Yikes!

The Tucson Citizen also gives the play a mixed review.

Curiously, the actor who makes the strongest impression has the least to say. He is tall and stately Anthony Marble as the reticent Mr. Darcy. With his striking profile straight from an ancient Greek coin, Marble can dominate a scene just by standing there – which he does a lot.

*swoooon* and *giggle*