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Stage version of Pride and Prejudice still speaks to modern audiences

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A scene from Gate Theatre's Pride and Prejudice.

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Is Jane Austen's 1813 , by Dublin-based Gate Theatre as part of this year's Hong Kong Arts Festival, relevant to a contemporary local audience?

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I didn't think so until the scene in which the heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, became passionate about Mr Darcy's real estate, Pemberley Woods, rather than the tall, dark and brooding protagonist himself.

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