The Milwaukee Repertory Theater glides into the New Year with a very precise staging of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. Mark Healy's script does a pretty good job of distilling some 120,000 written words on the page to a little over two hours on the stage. Under the direction of Art Manke, the script is well articulated with some genuinely heartfelt moments of motion peeking through the enjoyably prim formality of a Jane Austen story. The two women at the center of a rather comfortable ensemble are Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Kate Hurster is admirably poised as the sensible Elinor. Victoria Mack is charmingly energetic in the role of the passionate Marianne. Their mother dotes on them in all the maternal warmth that Laura Gordon can bring to the stage.