Casting announced for PRIDE & PREJUDICE* (*SORT OF) 2023 tour
The multi-award-winning Pride & Prejudice* (sort of) by Isobel McArthur after Jane Austen announces casting for its 2023 world tour, opening at The Lowry, Salford on 19 January.
The production’s writer and co-director, Isobel McArthur has just won another award, the Evening Standard Emerging Talent Award, having also won the Olivier Award for Entertainment and Comedy Show earlier in 2022. It is unprecedented for a young female writer to jointly win these two.
Following Salford, the production will visit Newcastle, Bath, Coventry, Richmond, Chichester, Cheltenham, Inverness, Cardiff, Nottingham, Eastbourne, Chester, Birmingham, Leeds, Blackpool, Bristol, Truro, Malvern, Exeter and Norwich where tickets are now on sale.
The cast for the 2023 tour includes Leah Jamieson who made her West End debut in Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) at the Criterion Theatre as Anne, Mary Bennet, Lydia Bennet and Mr Gardiner; Lucy Gray who made her professional debut in Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) at the Criterion Theatre reprises her role as Tillie, Charlotte Lucas, Charles Bingley and Miss Bingley; Emmy Stonelake (Much Ado About Nothing, Mercury Theatre) as Effie and Elizabeth Bennet; Megan Louise Wilson (The Mousetrap, West End) as Clara, Jane Bennet, and Lady Catherine de Burgh; Dannie Harris (Love Letters, Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch) as Flo, Mrs Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy; Laura Soper (Hetty Feather, York Theatre Royal) and Ruth Brotherton (As You Like It, UK tour).
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) is directed by Isobel McArthur and Simon Harvey, with 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 Luke Swaffield for Autograph, and choreography by Emily Jane Boyle.
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