This play was delightful to read and I preferred this adaptation to the original novel. By comparison, the male characters are less awful, which allows me to maintain my affection for the women who stay with them.

Pleasant reading. I shall try out for the Mrs. Graves part mid-Novoember.

Such a charming story that I really did enjoy. However, I read this play specifically as part of a Play Selection Committee for local community theatre and so this review will be mostly in regards to that.

I think this would be a great play to do. The cast is not large, so it shouldn't be too difficult to get it cast. There are only 3 men, which makes it even easier. It is a story that could appeal to all ages, so that makes it great for community theaters and getting a good audience. I had never heard of it before, personally, so the only worry with audiences is if it is not very well known, people aren't always willing to branch out and try a new play. That being said, the only worry I really have is the intricacy of the sets. There are so many scenes that take place in different locations including four different English sitting rooms, and Italian villa, and a church. The scenery would have to be very minimal, but specific in order to differentiate the spaces without having exceedingly long scene changes. All in all, I think we should do it.

On a side note, it does bother me that the Rose/Caroline/Frederick triangle is never solved. It is introduced and then never referred to again. However, it has made me curious to read the novel from which this play was adapted.

I found it enjoyable. I had seen the movie adaptation and was enchanted by it - to be precious. I am not satisfied with the ending and do wish it wasn't quite so neatly tied up with a bow.

I loved the movie - one of my all-time favorites. The book was not as "enchanting". Read it, though, just days after being on the Italian Mediterranean coast near Genoa - probably very close to where the book was set, so that was fun.

I am directing this production in 2011. Much better than the movie or even the original book! Delightful characters.

Lovely play about forgiveness and beginning again.

This is a re-read - read this work around 11-12 years ago. Still love it.

Beautiful play. Some key elements of the novel are of course inevitably missing, but the spirit is there. Would love to stage this.

Delightfully hopeful and sweet. Who doesn't need a holiday in Tuscany, after all?

Underwhelming

I thought I had requested the Elizabeth von Arnim novel from the library but received the play instead. The play was fine. I assume it distills the important events of novel. I did appreciate the enchantment of the Italian villa and am still interested in reading the novel.

Cheating husbands get no pass from me.