Lifeline's Emma takes some liberties but remains true to the playful spirit of the original
In which five actors play the entire village of Highbury. Phil Timberlake's new dramatization of Jane Austen's 1816 masterpiece, written especially for Lifeline Theatre, is neither a word-for-word transposition from page to stage nor a modernization (a la Amy Heckerling's 1995 movie Clueless). Instead, Timberlake and director Elise Kauzlaric (both members of Lifeline's ensemble) find a mi…