First Folio Theatre's final season features Heather Chrisler’s long-awaited production of 'Little Women.' Directed with the sensitivity of Melanie Keller, this adaptation hits all the highlights of the original story. | ✍️kerryreid👇
back in spring of 2020, but COVID took that production out just as surely as scarlet fever ended Beth March. Though of course one never wants to create a silver lining out of the pandemic, I do wonder if this lovely version of Louisa May Alcott’s classic coming-of-age novel hits with even greater acuity about the ephemeral nature of childhood and life itself after the events of the last two years.
Chrisler’s play, directed with a sure and sensitive hand by Melanie Keller, hits all the highlights of the original story and brings it all together in just under 100 minutes, sans intermission. Playing it straight through is a good choice, as it highlights the inexorable passing of time as the four March girls—hoydenish Jo, sensible Meg, sensitive Beth, and self-absorbed Amy—grow into “little women,” each trying to find her own way and voice in the world.
That insularity extends to the casting. All the beaus who show up for three of the March sisters are played by another sister. So Jamie Herb does double duty as Beth and rich neighbor Laurie ; Esther Fishbein is both Amy and John Brooke, Laurie’s tutor who courts and weds Meg; and Stephanie Fongheiser plays Meg and Professor Bhaer, the older German immigrant who eventually finds a way into the world of independent-minded Jo.
This adaptation ends before the marriage of Jo to the much-older Professor Bhaer, and before Jo conveniently inherits her Aunt March’s large country estate; the focus, appropriately, is on Jo’s evolution as a writer and on how she at times loses sight of her sisters’ lives, which come to her through letters.
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