SKOKIE, Ill.—She wasn’t well known in her lifetime, but Jane Austen (1775–1817) continues to increase in popularity in our time. In the last century, there have been hundreds of adaptations of her novels, such as the 1940 “Pride and Prejudice” film starring Laurence Olivier, the BBC television miniseries that starred Colin Firth in 1995, and “Bridget Jones’s Diary” with Hugh Grant and Renée Zellweger in 2001.
So, it’s not a surprise that someone would come up with a sequel to “Pride and Prejudice” and set it during Christmas. Such is the case with “Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley” written by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon now at the Northlight Theatre in Skokie, Illinois. But as what often happens in revisions of historically bound pieces, modern viewpoints intrude.
