Regency reversal: Brüka’s new, original comedy turns the ‘Bridgerton’ genre on its head

Regency reversal: Brüka’s new, original comedy turns the ‘Bridgerton’ genre on its head

Dearest reader, if you’re like me, you often fantasize—especially these days—about escaping to another land, another time, where problems seemed smaller and less complicated. For some of us, it’s 1950s America; for others, it’s England in the early 19th century, which is so richly described in Jane Austen novels and the COVID-era escapist series Bridgerton.  Escapism was certainly what Mary Bennett, producing artistic director at Brüka Theatre, …