The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford will bring Jane Austen’s classic romance “Sense and Sensibility” to the Bromeley Family Theater later this month.
The production by the New York-based Aquila Theater will take place at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18 at the theater in Blaisdell Hall.
“Sense and Sensibility,” Austen’s first novel published anonymously in 1811, is still one of her most popular novels.
The story revolves around two sisters in Georgian Britain – the level-headed Elinor and the hopeless romantic Marianne. After the untimely and unexpected death of their father, the sisters and their mother are forced to leave their comfortable lives while their half-brother and his wife inherit their father’s estate.
The only hope for the sisters, of course, is a profitable marriage, and seduction, courtship, love, heartbreak, surprise and comedy ensue.
For tickets, contact the Bromeley Family Theater box office at (814) 362-5113 or cmealy@pitt.edu.
