Austentatious The Improvised Jane Austen Novel Comes To Savoy Theatre

Austentatious Improvised Jane Austen Novel

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

UPCOMING: Sylvia, Old Vic Theatre

Sylvia Old Vix Theatre

Julian Eaves take a look at Zoo Nation’s Sylvia which has been showcased as a work in progress at the Old Vic Theatre. Sylvia Old Vic Theatre, 19th September 2018 This extraordinary, astonishing, ambitious and beautiful new musical breaks new ground in virtually all departments in this initial showing of a work-in-progress version at Matthew Warchus’ amazing Old Vic Theatre in Waterloo.  And, bear this in mind: it is hardly credible, but the team behind it has had barely a year to put it all together since the theatre commissioned it.  Rarely have we seen such a phenomenon on the British musical stage.  Those lucky audiences who found their way into its brief 3-week run at The Cut will feel honored to have got in on something so wonderful at such an early stage.  It’s going away for a year to be re-written and polished, and then it will be … Read more