BroadwayWorld Houston REVIEW: “SENSE & SENSIBILITY at 4TH WALL THEATRE COMPANY”

I have a feeling the creators of Netflix’s BRIDGERTON saw Kate Hamill’s musical update of SENSE & SENSIBILITY in 2014 and understood what they had to do to make Regency era romance work for a new generation.  This iteration of the famous Jane Austen novel from 1811 introduces modern pop songs and furiously funny takes on the story.  The actors sing, spin, and travel the stage in chairs on wheels in a kinetic frenetic way that makes it feel fresh again. It gives the story a wild energy that certainly Austen doesn’t have on the page, and makes the whole tale a theater kid’s fever dream of playing for an audience.  Roles are doubled, the actors let you see them switch, and there is a wild lightness to the proceedings that betrays the expected stuffiness of the original tale… (continue article)