Sanditon, l'adaptation théâtrale de Chris Brindle

Je suis tombée sur ça il y a quelques jours sur amazon.uk :



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Sanditon was Jane Austen’s last, partially completed, novel of around 24,000 words, written between January 27th  1817 and March 18th  1817.  Jane’s niece Anna, the daughter of Jane’s eldest brother James, had been brought up in her youngest years at Steventon with the 18 year older Jane, remained at Steventon with her father until she married Ben Lefroy at 21, and after a brief interlude moved back to Hampshire  to live two miles away from Jane then living at Chawton.

Anna was surely the first ‘Janeite’ and harboured a life-long ambition to emulate and honour her aunt.  In March 1845 she inherited Jane’s manuscript in the will of Jane’s sister Cassandra and set about writing her Completion, of similar length, and similarly unfinished.

In 2013 Chris Brindle, fascinated by the story behind the miniature of Anna Lefroy painted by his great great great grandfather acquired the original Lefroy Sanditon manuscripts from the USA and set about writing a stageplay based on the two fragments, with an ending that appeared a logical extension of the plot development in the Lefroy Continuation.

On 27th June 2014 the play was performed as a blocked script-in-hand performance at The Headgate Theatre Colchester, filmed by four cameras

On 28th Nov 2014 an edited 2 hour recording of the Headgate Theatre performance was released on Vimeo. This includes the 10 minute short film shot on location at Glemham Hall, Suffolk, and the duet “Blue Briny Sea” shot on location at Chawton House Library.  www.vimeo.com/ondemand/sanditon

Also released on 28th Nov was a 40 min Documentary shot at Chawton Cottage, Chawton House Library, Steventon, Selborne, Wyards Farmhouse Alton, Oakley Hall, Knowl Hill and Bray that tells of the writing of Sanditon by Austen, Lefory and Chris Brindle, and the writing of the first biography of Jane Austen by her nephew, James Edward Austen Leigh. The Documentary has music by American composer Amanda Jacobs performed on the histroric pianos at Chawton Cottage and Chawton House Library.

www.vimeo.com/ondemand/austen

A 2 DVD set of the Documentary and the Film-of-the-Play of Sanditon is now available on Amazon.

http://sanditon.info/

Ca à l'air intéressant. J'ai regardé la présentation de son documentaire, c'est ce qui m'intéresse le plus.