Isabella Star LaBlanc, C. Michael Menge Megan Burns, Christine Weber, and Christina Baldwin in Little Women at the Jungle.
Photo by Rich Ryan
Have you heard
about The Jungle’s world premiere of Kate Hamill’s adaptation of the Louisa May
Alcott’s Little Women? Alcott’s classic, beloved novel about the 4 March sisters growing up in rural New England during
the Civil War is enjoying its 150th anniversary this year. Our bloggers were very much in concord about this latest
collaboration between Hamill and Jungle Artistic Director Sarah Rasmussen, with
plenty of warm admiration for the show and for everyone involved!
Take Mary
Aalgaard at #PlayOnthePage. Mary is a “huge fan of Louisa May Alcott” who has
“read Little Women at least three times”. Mary praises Hamill for bringing “the
spirit of the novel and the March sisters to life in a beautiful and modern way”
and gives high marks to Director Rasmussen, who takes “this endearing
story and gives it new life” https://playoffthepage.com/2018/09/review-of-little-women-at-the-jungle-theater/
What says Gina
Musto at #GinaMusto.Com? Musto,
who read Little Women as a kid,
attests that Hamill’s adaptation “has
all the charm and elegance of the original story (and all the same plot points
and character quirks) with a distinctly modern edge. The language feels
contemporary without being utterly 21st century…” https://ginamusto.com/2018/09/17/little-women-jungle-theater/
And Glory Hallelujah did Becki Iverson of #Compendiummpls ever love this
show! “This adaptation of Little Women positively teems with
life and warmth and joie de vivre, and you are certain to leave the
theater feeling better about the world than when you entered.”http://compendiummpls.blogspot.com/2018/09/little-women-packs-big-beautiful-punch.html
“C. Michael Menge is dynamic
as Jo,” write the real life sisters over at #MinnesotaTheatreLove, while “as Theodore ‘Laurie’ Laurence, Michael Hanna was
everything one could wish for a character who was the object of many young
readers' crushes” (!) http://www.mntheaterlove.com/2018/09/little-women-at-jungle-theater.html?m=0
“Each little woman has her
complete arc,” notes Jill at #CherryandSpoon. The Jungle/Hamill
adaptation “puts more emphasis on the strict gender roles of the time (which
are different today, but often still strictly defined), and the way that J, and
even Laurie, don’t fit in them. This idea was always there in Alcott’s story
but we see it in a new light.” http://www.cherryandspoon.com/2018/09/little-women-at-jungle-theater.html
Little Women runs through
October 21st at the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis. Tix and info
here: http://www.jungletheater.com/littlewomen/
