I'll be honest: Jane Austen isn't my cup of tea. And I can't see myself developing feelings for her genteel romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry in Georgian-Regency England, any time soon.So it is to the credit of Water Lane Theatre Company that its stage version of the early 19th-century rom-com queen's novel Emma (which this year celebrates its bicentenary) managed to engage me. While Austen and I are a long way from ever walking up the aisle, there's a chance of a second date at...
