REVIEW: Austentatious, Savoy Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Sophie Adnitt reviews Austentatious, the improvised Jane Austen Novel on the first of its dates at London’s Savoy Theatre.
Jane Austen
Austentatious The Improvised Jane Austen Novel Comes To Savoy Theatre
Critically acclaimed production Austentatious: The Improvised Jane Austen Novel returns to London’s Savoy Theatre for a limited number of performances. Following a smash-hit season earlier this year and another sold-out visit to the Edinburgh Fringe, Austentatious: The Improvised Jane Austen Novel returns to the Savoy Theatre, London on 30 September with further dates on 4 November, 2, 9 and 16 December – Jane Austen’s birthday. Austentatious is an entirely improvised comedy play, starring a cast of the country’s sharpest comic performers, who conjure up a ‘lost’ Jane Austen novel based on nothing more than a title suggested by the audience. Whether you’ve read all of Austen’s works or none of them, this hilarious show will be a totally new experience. Performed in full Regency costume with live musical accompaniment, no two shows are ever the same. Previous ’lost‘ masterpieces include The Sixth Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Shark and Double 0 Darcy. Expect … Read more
REVIEW: Pride And Prejudice, Jermyn Street Theatre ✭✭✭✭
This is an accomplished show, capturing the spirit and social comedy of Austen with added humour from the multiple casting. It has come to the Jermyn Street Theatre at the end of a successful UK tour.
Pride And Prejudice UK Tour
Pride and Prejudice, the biggest small tour of Jane Austen’s perennial favourite is back this year by popular demand for its second UK tour. Over 200 years after it was first published, Joannah Tincey’s adaptation brings Pride and Prejudice to life with just two actors. Using their own ingenuity and Austen’s text, the actors illuminate Austen’s words in a fresh and relevant way. Joannah Tincey comments, I wanted to create an adaptation where the characters talk to the audience in the same way that Austen talks to her readers. By addressing the audience directly and allowing the characters to speak for themselves, we are bringing Jane Austen’s unique and witty writing style to life in a truly theatrical context. All of the characters we love from Pride and Prejudice are here, all 21 of them, Mrs Bennet complete with her nerves, Mrs Wickham and his misdeeds, Darcy and Lizzy, in … Read more
