What's On | Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)
Promotional image. Shows a realistic style illustration of 5 characters in Elizabethan dress partying it up: in a traditional statley home setting with a disco ball hanging from the ceiling: drinking champagne straight from the bottle, singing karaoke, playing a trumpet, playing a broom as a guitar. Text reads: The five star comedy sensation direct from the West End. Pride and Prejudice (sort of) by Isobel McArthur after Jane Austen.
Promotional image. Shows a realistic style illustration of 5 characters in Elizabethan dress partying it up: in a traditional statley home setting with a disco ball hanging from the ceiling: drinking champagne straight from the bottle, singing karaoke, playing a trumpet, playing a broom as a guitar. Text reads: The five star comedy sensation direct from the West End. Pride and Prejudice (sort of) by Isobel McArthur after Jane Austen.
Pride and Prejudice Sort Of Production Image. Background: Theatre stage. A black curtain with small LED lights dotted on it like stars in a night sky. A light blue and white staircase. Foreground: A group of women wearing white nightgowns and yellow kitchen gloves sing into microphones. They surround another woman (centre), wearing a pink frilly jumpsuit and pink feather hat, also singing into a microphone.
Photo by Mihaela Bodlovic
Pride and Prejudice Sort Of Production Image. Background: Theatre stage. A black curtain with small LED lights dotted on it like stars in a night sky. A light blue and white staircase. Foreground: (centre) Three women wearing white nightgowns stand in a large red waste bin with a green recycling logo, playing musical instruments. Text on the bin reads: ‘Jane Aust-bin. Glass. Plastic. The novels of Sir Walter Scott’. A woman wearing a red British army jacket over a white night gown stands to the left hand side of the bin, and a woman wearing a green and white dress stands to the right hand side of the bin.
Photo by Mihaela Bodlovic
Pride and Prejudice Sort Of Production Image. Background: Theatre stage. An autumn woodland forest backdrop. A light blue and white staircase. Foreground: A woman wearing a red and orange patterned judges coat pulls the leg of another woman, wearing a green frilly dress and black Dr Martens boots, who is lying on the on the group, gripping the floor. To their left, a woman wearing a priest’s gown and white collar points at them with their left arm. Behind them, a woman wearing a blue night gown sits on a brown sofa, and behind the sofa, a woman wearing a white night gown opens her mouth in shock.
Photo by Mihaela Bodlovic

Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)

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By Isobel McArthur
after Jane Austen

THE FIVE STAR COMEDY SENSATION DIRECT FROM THE WEST END

Direct from its triumph in the West End where it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy, Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s most iconic 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. This “smart, laugh-out-loud funny” (Daily Telegraph) 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.

Read a fascinating insight into playwright Isobel McArthur’s creative process.

ACCESS PERFORMANCES

14 June, 2:30pm
BSL interpretation provided by Complete Communication LTD.

17 June, 2:30pm
Audio-described performance.

“Deserves the standing ovations it’s getting nightly”

The Daily Telegraph

“Completely faithful to the book, it’s also a raucously irreverent romp”

Daily Mail

“Riotously funny…gloriously entertaining… frankly sensational”

Variety

“Hilarity, romance, madness and utter theatrical joy. The whole house rose to its feet and cheered and cheered”

Stephen Fry

Dannie Harris

Dannie Harris

Emmy Stonelake

Emmy Stonelake

Laura Soper

Laura Soper

Leah Jamieson

Leah Jamieson

Lucy Gray

Lucy Gray

Megan Louise Wilson

Megan Louise Wilson

Ruth Brotherton

Ruth Brotherton

Map Venue MarkerNorthcott Theatre
Comedy, Theatre
Running time: 155 minutes, no interval
Exeter Northcott Theatre Exeter Northcott Theatre
Members Discount
Age guidance: 12+
This performance contains smoke/haze, loud noises and strobe lighting

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