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
