Tuesday, July 13, 2010

A Nice Surprise

Yesterday Gwen wanted to bring her pajamas over to Grandma's house so she could sleep over. Grandma said it would be ok so Abe and I had the night to ourselves. He took me out to dinner and afterwards we went home. I was thinking we would just watch a movie or something but he told me that we were leaving again. I asked him where but he wouldn't tell me. Turned out that he bought tickets for a play. I love to go and watch plays. It was Pride and Prejudice. I was excited to see what they would do with it. They did a good job for how short they had to cut the book. There was no big scene changes the action led from one scene to the next quite quickly sometime in the middle of a sentence. Example night time Caroline Bingley says "I hope Jane recovers so that we don't get a visit from... (morning) Mrs. Bennet how good it is to see you." My all time favorite character was Mr. Collins. The actor who played him was good. He talked in a smarmy voice and it was just hilarious how he played it. But this is one of those things that you just had to be there. It was a wonderful night.

4 comments:

Katy Froyd said...

What does smarmy mean?

jane said...

Did I just make up a word? I swear I've heard it before. Nope I just looked it up here's the definition. "ingratiating and wheedling in a way that is perceived as insincere"

Unknown said...

Smarmy is a word! At least, I use it occasionally. I do believe its in Harry Potter. I AM SO JEALOUS OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am the biggest Jane Austen fan EVER!!!!!!!! Pride and Predjudice is my all time favorite! I have read it and watched it so many times it is crazy!!!!! YOU ARE SO LUCKY!!!!!!!!!!!! Elizabeth is my all time HERO!!!! My husband better take ME to freakin amazing plays like yours does!!!!!...

Marilyn said...

What a sweet husband!! I would love to see a play version of P&P. I'm so glad you had fun!
p.s. smarmy is a great word.