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Emma (Bloom)

A delightful retelling of a comedy.

TalkinBroadway.com

Joyful…

Cleveland Plain Dealer

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 19th Century
  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Senior, Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Outdoor, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student, Senior Theatre
A highly theatrical adaptation of one of Jane Austen's greatest novels. Pledging never to marry, the mischievous Emma Woodhouse is nevertheless the "matchmaker of Highbury."

Her newest project, Harriet Smith, has already received a proposal, but Emma insists she marry the eligible vicar Mr. Elton, while, an older family friend, Mr. Knightly, warns her to give up matchmaking. When Emma discovers Mr. Elton is more interested in her, she is forced to fend him off and find another suitor for Harriet. Highbury welcomes two new guests, a mysterious Jane Fairfax and the charming Frank Churchill, and Emma finds herself falling just a little in love with him. 

Ultimately, she decides that Frank is better suited to Harriet, but when she suggests the match, Emma is astonished to discover that Harriet has fallen for Mr. Knightly. A horrified Emma suddenly realizes she has always been in love with Mr. Knightley. 

In the end, all is set right as Frank reveals his secret engagement to Jane, Harriet receives a second offer from her first beau, and Mr. Knightley proposes to the deliriously happy Emma.
REVIEWS:

A delightful retelling of a comedy.

TalkinBroadway.com

Joyful!

Cleveland Plain Dealer
Premiere Production: Emma was first produced at the Cleveland Playhouse in Cleveland, Ohio on February 26, 2010. The performance was directed by Peter Amster.

Characters

  • Casting: 6M, 6F
  • Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast, Flexible casting, Room for Extras, Expandable casting, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)
  • Casting Notes: Plus ensemble

  • EMMA WOODHOUSE - Very pretty, accomplished, willful, highly intelligent, sophisticated, and arrogant. Although often wrong, she is always confident of being right. A clever and spoiled young woman with a strong affection for her father.

  • HENRY WOODHOUSE - Emma's elderly father. An expert worrier whose hypochondria is a source of continual amusement, he basks in Emma's attentions and resists any kind of change. Although he indulges his whims, he also expresses concern for the health of others.

  • MR. GEORGE KNIGHTLEY - A close friend of the Woodhouse family. A handsome, virile, rational gentleman farmer with great judgement and tact, who acts as an adviser to -- and finally lover of -- Emma. A man's man.

  • MISS TAYLOR - Emma's former governess and the new wife of Mr. Weston.

  • MR. WESTON - A kindly and cheerful neighbour of the Woodhouses, and the father of Frank Churchill by an earlier marriage. Genial, generous, easy-going, and warm-hearted.

  • PHILIP ELTON - The 26-year-old rector of Highbury, who is looking for the right marriage.

  • HARRIET SMITH - A soft, amiable, and adoring orphan, easily swayed, and of a class below Emma's. Befriended by Emma, she eventually decides to marry the man for whom she was intended.

  • ROBERT MARTIN - a capable young man, in love with Harriet Smith.

  • MISS BATES - A middle-aged spinster, kind but terribly talkative. Lives in genteel poverty with her ailing mother.

  • JANE FAIRFAX - A beautiful and talented young woman who is visiting her aunt -- Miss Bates -- in Highbury.

  • FRANK CHURCHILL - The very handsome and well-mannered son of Mr. Weston, who was raised by his aunt, and is visiting Highbury for the first time.

  • AUGUSTA HAWKINS - The vain, nouveau-riche wife of Mr. Elton.

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    A highly theatrical adaptation of one of Jane Austen's greatest novels. Pledging never to marry, the mischievous Emma Woodhouse is nevertheless the 'matchmaker of Highbury.' Her newest project, Harriet Smith, has already received a proposal, but Emma insists she marry the eligible vicar Mr. Elton, while, an older family friend, Mr. Knightly, warns her to give up matchmaking. When Emma discovers Mr. Elton is more interested in her, she is forced to fend him off and find another suitor for Harriet. Highbury welcomes two new guests, a mysterious Jane Fairfax and the charming Frank Churchill, and Emma finds herself falling just a little in love with him. Ultimately, she decides that Frank is better suited to Harriet, but when she suggests the match, Emma is astonished to discover that Harriet has fallen for Mr. Knightly. A horrified Emma suddenly realizes she has always been in love with Mr. Knightley. In the end, all is set right as Frank reveals his secret engagement to Jane, Harriet receives a second offer from her first beau, and Mr. Knightley proposes to the deliriously happy Emma.

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