Whartonian reincarnation.(appreciating Edith Wharton )(Brief Article)
American Theatre, July, 2005 by Johnson, Cassandra
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LENOX, MASS.: Shakespeare & Company is intimately acquainted with Edith Wharton (in photo)--once housed on her impeccably restored estate, the company has dramatized the author's fiction for more than 25 years. According to resident adaptor Dennis Krausnick, Wharton was a "brilliant satirist" whose aristocratic upbringing informed her sharp criticism of the turn-of-the-century nouveau riche, while her imagination rendered equally authentic portraits of poverty.
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This season Krausnick adapts two Wharton stories, "The Mission of Jane" and "Les Metteurs en ...
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