Feb. 29, 2020
Jane Austen novels are pretty buttoned up, with lots of agonizing about potential suitors and worries about social norms. But what if you could shake things up and, er, rewrite Austen’s works to suit today’s sensibilities? You’ll have the chance to throw all sense and sensibility out the window on Saturday, March 7th, at 7:30 pm, when the Ames Chapel puts on the Wheel of Austen, its last event of this year’s Dead of Winter Series. Get ready to let down and have a good time — and a good glass of wine — in the evening’s send-up of everything prim and proper in Austen’s works.
Actors you may have seen perform at ImprovBoston, “New England’s Home for Comedy,” ask the audience for suggestions about what events occur next. Based on your responses, lovers get jilted, sisters get jealous, intentions get misread, and perhaps a brawl breaks out between so-called gentlemen on whether the Red Sox are going to do well this year.
It may sound improbably strange, but the troupe makes “courtship in the 18th century funny as hell,” according to The New England Theatre Geek.
You don’t have to have read any Austen to get it. It’s a “damn delight,” the review says.
The $20 ticket gets you a 75-minute show, wine, beer, hors’ d’oeuvres, and a meet-and-greet with the actors after the performance. It all starts at 7:30 pm, but come at 7 and have a glass of wine or a beer. It’ll help you settle in!
For tickets, go to www.hinghamcemetery.org. No paper tickets. All names will be checked at the door.