I am famous. (the first of two entries concerning writing)

( icon )

Ladies and gentlemen, hear ye all: I AM ON AUSTENBLOG!

I am a "Guest Poster!" The Editrix of the blog sent me a very nice and complimentary email! I rock!

Cheer From Chawton, a one-woman show by Karen Eterovich about the life and work of Jane Austen, came to Hanover a couple of weeks ago. It was incredible. We were incredibly lucky to get the show here; Karen Eterovich is a friend of one of our directors, Jim. I loved the show incredibly, and I even got to sort of live the dream in that I got to portray Fanny Knight, Jane Austen's niece (whom she loved dearly), and give cue lines. It's probably the closest I'll get to acting in a Jane Austen play, aside from maybe a P&P scene in my 18th century novel class. It was amaaaaazing. And I got to meet Karen Eterovich, and I cannot stress enough how nice she was. I was fangirling hardcore, I swear. Even though I'd never seen her show, I'd heard about it via the internets, and it sounded so cool, and she'd toured all over the US and Britian and performed at the Jane Austen Festival in Bath and everything, so she's sort of Austenland famous. Karen Eterovich was gracious and talked to me about England and didn't disparage me for going to Groovy European Pizza Hut (which story just sort of poured out of my mouth, I don't know what happened), and we talked Jane Austen, and I asked her about her research and her costume and the Festival (though not as much as I would have liked to, but I didn't want to bother her too much) and apologized for being such a dork, but she assured me it was cool. 

The show was, as I think I've said, wonderful. I would have posted about it in detail here, except that I decided to send it to Austenblog instead. And my whole entire review got printed there! EEEEEEEEEEE!
Remember when I was sqeeing about getting my timeline on Bronteana? Well, this is kind of an even bigger deal. Austenblog is the place for Jane Austen news, and one of the top two Austen sites on the internet. And Karen Eterovich told he she was scared of it. I hope she is not any longer. :)

Here is my original squeeful post on Compendium about it. To which I can really only add that for a while my review was the number two result on Google if you typed in "Cheer From Chawton," preceded only by the official site. I am currently third. Thanks to ABFG for the heads up on that! 

And, in case Austenblog is ever decimated by an internet plague, or something, I am going to repost my review here in its entirety, under a cut. Every word is true, by the way. It was such a cool, enlightening-in-a-dorky-way experience.

( I was in a while room full of people laughing at something Jane Austen had written. )