(BRIDGETON, NJ) -- For the Whim Productions presents Sense & Sensibility weekends from May 9-17, 2025. Jane Austen's classic novel is brought to life in Kate Hamill's brilliantly funny, fast-paced stage adaptation, which utilizes a chorus of lively Gossips to enhance the sense of a socially stifling world, and encourages inventive choreography, bold characterization, and creative doubling to produce a fresh take on a well-beloved story.
When their father dies unexpectedly, the future seems bleak for the Dashwood sisters of Norland Park, as their older half-brother inherits the estate, and they are impoverished. Spineless brother John and his haughty, stingy wife, Fanny, establish themselves immediately after the funeral, leaving Mrs. Dashwood and her three daughters as unwelcome guests in their own home. Fanny’s kind, mild-mannered brother, Edward Ferrars, comes for a visit, and develops a friendship with sensible eldest sister, Elinor... is it merely esteem and admiration, or something more?
Sensitive, emotional middle sister Marianne is sure that Edward is passionately in love, but cautious Elinor takes nothing for granted.
Performances take place Friday, May 9 at 8:00pm; Saturday, May 10 at 2:00pm; Sunday, May 11 at 2:00pm; Thursday, May 15 at 7:30pm; Friday, May 16 at 8:00pm; and Saturday, May 17 at 2:00pm. Tickets are available for purchase online. Performance are at Ashley McCormick Theatre in the Hopeloft (40 E Commerce Street) in Bridgeton, New Jersey.
For the Whim is committed to creating opportunities for local artists, playwrights, thespians, and the like to cultivate and share their work with a larger audience in a culturally diverse and respectable manner representative of all walks of life.
Funding has been made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Cumberland County Board of Commissioners through the Cumberland County Cultural Heritage Fund.
