Exeter Drama Company

Community Theatre

Sense and Sensibility

By Jane Austen

Adapted by Roger Parsley and Andy Graham

Directed by Kaitlin Nixson

19th - 23rd September 2017

Sense and Sensibility - Aunt Jennings and Elinor
Sense and Sensibility - Elinor and Edward Ferrars

Left in straitened circumstances when their father dies, the Dashwood girls are forced to move to a Devon cottage.

Sense and Sensibility -  Marianne and Willoughby
Sense and Sensibility -  Marianne and Elinor

They are befriended by Aunt Jennings who determines to find husbands for them in the Society of early nineteenth-century London.

Sense and Sensibility - Willoughby and Marianne

The younger, Marianne, trusting to her sensibilities, falls passionately in love with the dashing Willoughby who proves to be less trustworthy than he seems……

Sense and Sensibility -  Lucy Steele and Elinor
Sense and Sensibility - Col Brandon, Marianne, Aunt Jennings and Elinor

…..while Elinor applies her sense to her feelings for Edward Ferrars who appears to be unattainable.

Sense and Sensibility - Marianne and Col Brandon
Sense and Sensibility - Elinor and Edward Ferrars

Sense and Sensibility was voted Best Production for 2016/2017 in our Exeter Drama Company in house awards.

Charlotte Guy also won Best Actress for her part as Elinor Dashwood in this play, and Daniel Bartlett as Edward Ferrars won Best Actor.

Elinor Dashwood Charlotte Guy
Marianne Dashwood Phoebe Guy
Edward Ferrars Daniel Bartlett
Aunt Jennings Denise Gough
Colonel Brandon Edward Heeley
John Willoughby Alistair Bibby
Lucy Steele Charlie Hewett
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