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“I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like”
Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary is celebrated in fitting style with a new stage adaptation of her classic comedy of manners, Emma.
The beautiful, high-spirited Emma Woodhouse is determined that she will never marry but loves to meddle in her friends’ and neighbours’ relationships. When her confidante and former governess, Miss Taylor weds her fiancé Mr Weston, Emma, having introduced the couple, takes credit for the marriage and decides that a future in matchmaking lies ahead of her.
So begins a comic journey through the lives and loves of Emma’s friends and neighbours, embracing the burgeoning Regency social scene of Bath and Weymouth. But as the romantic web she weaves amongst her friends becomes ever more entangled, will Emma herself get swept up in true love’s wake…?
Jane Austen’s enduring novel is filled with memorable characters – the dashing Mr Knightley, Emma’s friends Jane Fairfax and Harriet Smith, the mercenary Reverend Elton and his delightfully pretentious wife Augusta. This new 250th anniversary stage production is adapted by Ryan Craig.
Cast: India Shaw-Smith (Emma), Ed Sayer ( George Knightley), William Chubb (Mr Woodhouse) , Maiya Louise Thapar ( Harriet Smith), Oscar Batterham (Philip Elton), Daniel Rainford ( Robert Martin), Peter Losasso ( Frank Churchill), Jade Kennedy ( Jane Fairfax), Rose Quentin ( Augusta)
Creatives: Stephen Unwin ( Director), Ceci Calf ( Set & Costume Designer), Ben Ormerod ( Lighting Designer)
