The multi-award-winning Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) by Isobel McArthur after Jane Austen announces casting for its 2023 world tour, opening at The Lowry, Salford on 19 January 2023. The production’s writer and co-director, Isobel McArthur has just won another award, the Evening Standard Emerging Talent Award, having also won the Olivier Award for Entertainment and Comedy Show in 2022. It is unprecedented for a young female writer to jointly win these two awards.
The cast for the 2023 tour includes Leah Jamies, Lucy Gray, Emmy Stonelake, Megan Louise Wilson, Dannie Harris and Laura Soper, who all play a number of roles from the original novel.
This unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s classic love story originally played at Glasgow’s Tron Theatre. Men, money and microphones will be fought over in this irreverent but affectionate adaptation where the stakes couldn’t be higher when it comes to romance. The show features a string of pop classics including Young Hearts Run Free, Will You Love Me Tomorrow and You’re So Vain. It’s the 1800s. It’s party time. Let the ruthless matchmaking begin.
Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) is directed by Olivier and Evening Standard Theatre Award Winner Isobel McArthur and Simon Harvey. Comedy staging is by Jos Houben, design by Ana Inés Jabares-Pita, lighting by Colin Grenfell, musical supervision by Michael John McCarthy, sound design by Michael John McCarthy and Luke Swaffield for Autograph and choreography by Emily Jane Boyle.
Book now at these Theatre Tokens venues:
The Lowry, Salford (Book online)
19 January – 21 January 2023
30 January – 4 February 2023
7 February – 11 February 2023
13 February – 18 February 2023
21 February – 25 February 2023
6 March – 11 March 2023
20 March – 25 March 2023
4 April – 8 April 2023
17 April – 22 April 2023
24 April – 29 April 2023
2 May – 6 May 2023
8 May – 20 May 2023
12 June – 17 June 2023