M A N S F I E L D P A R K

FANNY PRICE Frances O`Connor

1. FANNY PRICE

HENRY CRAWFORD

Alessandro NivolaMARY CRAWFORDEmbeth Davidtz

MRS. NORRISSheila Gish

SIR THOMAS BERTRAMHarold Pinter

LADY BERTRAMLindsay Duncan

EDMUND BERTRAMJonny Lee Miller

JULIA & MARIA BERTRAMVictoria Hamilton &

Justine Waddell

MR. RUSHWORTHHugh Bonneville

TOM BERTRAMJames Purefoy

“The most cinematic thing in the world is the human face”

• values or melodrama?

Great – vivid –newly-built --opressing -- financial trouble –elegant – refined -- confined ..close-minded, judgmental people

London: “urban” flaws: vices/virtues. less strict morality.

Portsmouth: working-class abject poverty, noise, crowds, navy men. Family house?

needs improvement…

moral ruin?

?

THE SETTINGS

“An obliging and yielding temper”

Quivering, physically weak, not very attractive, not

fully drawn, delicate , puny. Exceedingly timid,

shrinking from notice

A version of Jane

Austen, lively sparkly.

less insipid, less

priggish, puritanical,

more robust and brave.

Ready to say “NO”

“We do not go into society for the pleasure of conversation, but for thepleasure of sex, direct or indirect. Everything is arranged for this end.”

“ You will certainly hurt yourself against those spikes, you will tear your gown.”

A N T I G U A

Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire used as Mansfield Park

judgmental people