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
- Director – Deborah Bruce
- Set Designer – Max Jones
- Costume Designer – Tom Piper
- Movement Director – Siân Williams
- Composer – Lillian Henley
- Lighting Designer – Tina MacHugh
- Sound Designer – Matt McKenzie for Autograph
- Season Associate Director (Voice & Text) – Barbara Houseman
- Casting Director – Lotte Hines
The cast
- Mr Wickham – Daniel Abbott
- Miss Charlotte Lucas – Francesca Bailey
- Miss Kitty Bennet/Miss Georgiana Darcy – Anna Crichlow
- Lady Catherine De Bourgh – Doña Croll
- Mr Darcy – Benjamin Dilloway
- Miss Jane Bennet – Hollie Edwin
- Miss Lydia Bennet – Mari Izzard
- Mr Bennet – Matthew Kelly
- Mr Collins – Steven Meo
- Mr Bingley – Jordan Mifsúd
- Mrs Bennet – Felicity Montagu
- Mrs Gardiner – Charlotte Palmer
- Miss Mary Bennet/Miss Annabel De Bourgh – Leigh Quinn
- Sir William Lucas/Mr Reynolds – Mark Rawlings
- Miss Caroline Bingley – Kirsty Rider
- Miss Elizabeth Bennet – Tafline Steen
- Ensemble and understudy Mr Bingley, Mr Collins, Mr Reynolds and Sir William Lucas – Geoff Arnold
- Walking understudy covering Miss Elizabeth, Miss Jane and Miss Lydia Bennet – Jessica D'Arcy
- Walking understudy covering Mrs Gardiner, Miss Charlotte Lucas, Miss Mary Bennet, Miss Kitty Bennet, Miss Caroline Bingley and Miss Georgiana Darcy – Rose D'Aulbey
- Ensemble and understudy Mr Darcy and Mr Wickham – Ally Manson
