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RUSSELL J. YOUNG

Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley is both a Jane Austen story and not. It’s a sequel to Austen’s book Pride and Prejudice, and the product of an interesting collaboration between well-known contemporary playwright Lauren Gunderson (The Revolutionists) and Margot Melcon, a dramaturge who says she never wrote a play before this one.

Miss Bennet tells a catty Christmas comedy tale about the last unmarried Bennet sister Mary (Lauren Modica) who was often wisecracking in the background of Austen’s book, easily overlooked. You may remember most of the Bennet sisters were engaged by the end of Pride and Prejudice, and only Mary was still single—but it’s also okay if you don’t.