By Jane Austen
In an adaptation by Simon Reade
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife
As the Bennet sisters haplessly search for love in Jane Austen’s ultimate romantic comedy, it is Mr Darcy who unwittingly finds his match.
Pride and Prejudice returned to the Open Air Theatre following a sell-out run in 2013, and featured the Olivier Award-winner Matthew Kelly (Of Mice and Men, Educating Rita, Waiting for Godot) and Felicity Montagu (Alan Partridge, Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Durrells) as Mr and Mrs Bennet. Celebrating the legacy of Jane Austen as we approached her bicentennial, the production toured the UK until 2017.
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“A PERFECT PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: skittish, comical, easy on the eye and moving…great stuff”
Mail on Sunday
“Deborah Bruce’s charming production blows fresh air into Austen’s wonderful comedy”
Observer
In “Simon Reade’s SPARKLING new stage version…
it’s Austen, still DAZZLING after 200 years”
Evening Standard
“Deborah Bruce’s production has such CHARM and ELEGANCE”
Metro
“Simon Reade’s adaptation discharges a quiverful of Austen’s most astringent observations and sketches in the essential contours of the smoulderingly rational central love story with sufficient clarity and grace to put a slightly goofy smile on even the severest spectator’s face”
CREATIVE TEAM
- Hannah Banister – Resident Director
- Deborah Bruce – Director
- Lillian Henley – Composer
- Max Jones – Set Designer
- Lotte Hines – Casting Director
- Barbara Houseman – Season Associate Director (Voice & Text)
- Tina MacHugh – Lighting Designer
- Matt McKenzie for Autograph – Sound Designer
- Tom Piper – Costume Designer
- Siân Williams – Movement Director
CAST
- Daniel Abbott – Mr Wickham
- Francesca Bailey – Miss Charlotte Lucas
- Anna Crichlow – Miss Kitty Bennet / Miss Georgiana Darcy
- Benjamin Dilloway – Mr Darcy
- Hollie Edwin – Miss Jane Bennet
- Doña Croll – Lady Catherine de Bourgh
- Mari Izzard – Miss Lydia Bennet
- Matthew Kelly – Mr Bennet
- Steven Meo – Mr Collins
- Jordan Mifsúd – Mr Bingley
- Felicity Montagu – Mrs Bennet
- Charlotte Palmer – Mrs Gardiner
- Leigh Quinn – Miss Mary Bennet / Miss Annabel de Bourgh
- Mark Rawlings – Sir William Lucas / Mr Reynolds
- Kirsty Rider – Miss Caroline Bingley
- Tafline Steen – Elizabeth Bennet
- Geoff Arnold – Ensemble / Understudy
- Jessica D'Arcy – Walking Understudy
- Rose D'Aulbey – Walking Understudy
- Ally Manson – Ensemble / Understudy
