Comedy

Austentatious: The Improvised Jane Austen Novel

Date: Saturday, Nov 18 2017 - Saturday, Nov 18 2017
Venue: Redgrave Theatre
Price: £14

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.

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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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By steve wright, Friday, Sep 1 2017

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