"Lovers' Vows" Dramatization Wows an Enthusiastic JASNA Audience

Cast of "Lovers' Vows" following their performance.  Top row L ro R:  Darren Carroll, Andrea Hearn, Julia Seales, 

Adam Miller, Doug Murray.  Bottom row L to R: Killian Quigley, Caroline Davis, Debbie Carroll and Pablo Martinez Diente.

Under the able directorship of Professor Andrea Hearn, a cast of nine JASNA members and  friends gave a rousing performance of Elizabeth Inchbald's play, "Lovers' Vows," on Feb. 16 in Alumni Hall at Vanderbilt University. Using colorful costumes and "nifty" props, the actors performed with skill in this melodrama which is best known now for having been featured in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park (1814).  Prior to the play, JASNA members Caroline Davis (Jane Austen) and Debbie Carroll (Elizabeth Inchbald) introduced the play in a very humorous way, setting the tone for the remainder of this lively performance.

February Program Features "Lovers' Vows"

 

Middle Tennessee Region JASNA Members-

You are cordially invited to a special staged reading of

"Lovers' Vows" *

Place: Vanderbilt Alumni Hall, Room 100**

Time: 4:00-6:00 PM

Date:  Feb. 16, 2014

Followed by an optional dinner at Cabana Restaurant***

Dinner Cost:  "Dutch-treat"-You pay for you own meal

Please RSVP to Mildred Tilley -- millietilley@gmail.com

to let her know if you:

1.  Plan to attend the play

or

2.  Plan to attend the play and meal at Cabana
(Mildred will make dinner reservations based on RSVP's)

* In 1814 Jane Austen featured Elizabeth Inchbald's popular play, "Lovers' Vows" (1798) into the plot of Mansfield Park.  This very popular, but "racy" play was used because it gave Mary Crawford and Edmund Bertram scope for talking of love and marriage as well as provided a pretext for the flirtations of Maria Bertram and Henry Crawford.  The subject matter of "Lovers' Vows" included adultery and kissing which would have been scandalous topics in polite society of that day.  This short adaptation of "Lover's Vows' directed by Dr. Andrea Hearn, allows audience members to sit back and enjoy a readers' theater version of the play featuring actors from Vanderbilt University, Belmont University and JASNA-Middle TN Region.

**Alumni Hall--See Vanderbilt University Campus Map at:   http://www.vanderbilt.edu/map/  (Get on site and type in "Alumni Hall" under Select a Building.)

Easy parking is readily available near Alumni Hall in the large parking lot of West End United Methodist Church, 2200 West End Avenue.  Park in the church lot, cross West End Ave. at the crosswalk in front of Vanderbilt Campus.  Walk straight into campus, turn right past Kirkland Hall and continue to Alumni Hall.

*** Cabana Restaurant  1910 Belcourt Avenue     Website:  http://cabananashville.com/  (map is on website)