Casting announced for 2024/25 tour of West End sensation PRIDE & PREJUDICE* (*SORT OF)
Casting has been announced for the upcoming UK tour of Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of), directed by its writer Isobel McArthur, prior to its opening at Newcastle Theatre Royal on 19 September.
The cast includes; from Cork, Emma Rose Creaner (Peter Pan, Gate Theatre Dublin) as role as Tillie, Charlotte Lucas, Charles Bingley and Miss Bingley; from Glasgow, Eleanor Kane (Fun Home, Young Vic) 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, Minack Theatre) as Effie and Elizabeth Bennet; and from Glasgow, Christine Steel (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 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, Georgia Firth.
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.
Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) has comedy staging by Jos Houben, design by Ana Inés Jabares-Pita, lighting by Colin Grenfell, musical supervision by Michael John McCarthy, sound by Michael John McCarthy and Dylan Saberton for Autograph, choreography by Emily Jane Boyle, choreography by Emily Jane Boyle, and casting by Sarah Bird and Marc Frankum.
Following playing Newcastle, the production will visit Northampton, Chelmsford, Wolverhampton, Nottingham, Shrewsbury, York, Guildford, Poole, Sheffield, Malvern, Plymouth, Birmingham, Richmond, Glasgow, Oxford, Salford, Bath, Aberdeen, Canterbury, Lichfield, Leeds and Southampton where tickets are now on sale with other dates still to be announced.
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