One of the delights of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s joyous production of “Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley” is how the show works on the most basic levels of comedy.

Basically, it’s funny; very, very funny.

But that’s not all it is. The laughs are plentiful, accentuated by whip-smart actors who calibrate phrases leading to lots of pauses for audience uproar. Those laughs are balanced with real world issues, and an longing for these gentlewomen locked into the suffocating zeitgeist of early 1800s British Regency.

The profound pens of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon bring Jane Austen’s world to life, a world that scares the bejesus out of uber-talented Georgiana Darcy (Emily Ota). She is a piano composition savant, yet cowers when it comes time to push toward any kind of te

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