Comedy
Austentatious: The Improvised Jane Austen Novel
UK tour for this improvised comedy play starring a cast of the country’s quickest comic performers.
Every single show the cast conjure up a brand new ‘lost’ Jane Austen novel based on nothing more than a title suggested by the audience.
Austentatious are fresh from six sellout runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, a monthly residency in London’s Leicester Square and a BBC Radio 4 special to mark the bicentenary of Austen’s death. Now their show will be appearing at two dozen theatres across the country to entertain and astonish audiences in equal measure.
is needed now More than ever
Previous ‘lost’ masterpieces have included Sixth Sense & Sensibility, Double 0 Darcy and Mansfield Shark, and no two shows are ever the same. Performed in period costume with live musical accompaniment, this is a Regency treat guaranteed to delight Austen novices and die-hard fans alike.
“A bravura slab of improvisation” – The Independent
“Ridiculously silly…wickedly funny” – The Times
Read our preview here.
8pm/doors 7.30pm, Redgrave Theatre, £14. For more info, visit redgravetheatre.com/event/2017/11/austentatious-the-improvised-jane-austen-novel/174
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