Mansfield Park
July 2014
Mansfield Park is a magnificent, idyllic estate which is home to the wealthy Bertram family and where Fanny Price, the story’s heroine and a “poor relation” is living so that she can be properly brought up. However, Fanny’s childhood is a lonely one as she is never allowed to forget her place. Acutely conscious of her inferior status, she dares to love their son, Edmund – but from afar. However, with five marriageable young people on the premises, the peace at Mansfield cannot last. Courtships, entertainments and intrigues throw the place into turmoil, and Fanny finds herself unwillingly competing with a dazzlingly witty and lovely rival. Fanny Price is unlike any of Austen’s previous heroines, a girl from a poor family brought up in a splendid country house and possessed of a vast reserve of moral fortitude and imperturbability. She is very different from Elizabeth Bennet, but is the product of the same inspired imagination.
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The cast
The cast
Kath Kenyon, Pete Geary, Robert Beard, Lara Bundock, Kate Spivey & Jan Ibberson
The cast