PRIDE & PREJUDICE* (*SORT OF) by Isobel McArthur after Jane Austen
MONDAY 18 – SATURDAY 23 NOVEMBER 7.45pm (2.30pm Thurs, Sat mats) (THEATRE)
Tickets and information 01202 280000
The Olivier and Evening Standard Award-winning West End sensation, Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) arrives at Lighthouse Poole for a week-long run on Monday 18 September on its 2024/2025 tour.
This new production is directed by its writer, Isobel McArthur, winner of the Evening Standard Award, having also won the Olivier Award, and it is unprecedented for a young female writer to jointly win these two prestigious awards.
This is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s classic love story. 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.
The cast for this new production includes; from Cork, Emma Rose Creaner whose previous credits include Peter Pan at the Gate Theatre, Dublin and Tartuffe at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin as role as Tillie, Charlotte Lucas, Charles Bingley and Miss Bingley; from Glasgow, Eleanor Kane (Medium Alison in Fun Home at the Young Vic, and Hex at the National Theatre, London) as Anne, Mary Bennet, Lydia Bennet and Mr Gardiner; from Brighton, Rhianna McGreevy (The Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare’s Globe) as Flo, Mrs Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy; from Ilford, Naomi Preston Low (Further Than the Furthest Thing at the Minack Theatre, Cornwall, and The Wind and The Rain at the Finborough Theatre) as Effie and Elizabeth Bennet; and from Glasgow, Christine Steel (A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Scottish National Orchestra) as Clara, Jane Bennet, and Lady Catherine de Burgh. Also joining the company; from Washington, Tyne and Wear Isobel Donkin; from Newcastle, via Portsmouth, Susie Barrett; and from Frodsham, is Georgia Firth.
Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) is directed by Olivier and Evening Standard Theatre Award Winner Isobel McArthur. 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 Dylan Saberton for Autograph, choreography by Emily Jane Boyle, associate director is Martin Leonard, assistant director is Finlay Glen, choreography by Emily Jane Boyle, costume supervisor is Morag Pirrie, fight director is Claire Llewellyn, production manager is Blair Halliday, company manager is Andrew Speed, deputy stage manager is Heather Robertson, assistant stage manager is Tyler Gregory, sound operator is Shannon James, wardrobe by Rob Bicknell, casting by Sarah Bird and Marc Frankum.