Pride and Prejudice (& Tour) (2016)

2 September – 25 February

By Jane Austen
In an adaptation by Simon Reade

Pride and Prejudice returned to the Open Air Theatre (2 - 17 September 2016) following a sell-out run in 2013, and featured the Olivier Award-winner Matthew Kelly (Of Mice and Men, Educating Rita, Waiting for Godot) and Felicity Montagu (Alan Partridge, Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Durrells) as Mr and Mrs Bennet. Celebrating the legacy of Jane Austen as we approached her bicentennial, the production toured the UK (21 September 2016 - 25 February 2017).

The cast

Daniel Abbott

Mr Wickham

Francesca Bailey

Miss Charlotte Lucas

Anna Crichlow

Miss Kitty Bennet/Miss Georgiana Darcy

Benjamin Dilloway

Mr Darcy

Hollie Edwin

Miss Jane Bennet

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Doña Croll

Lady Catherine de Bourgh

Mari Izzard

Miss Lydia Bennet

Matthew Kelly

Mr Bennet

Steven Meo

Mr Collins

Jordan Mifsúd

Mr Bingley

Felicity Montagu

Mrs Bennet

Charlotte Palmer

Mrs Gardiner

Leigh Quinn

Miss Mary Bennet/Miss Annabel de Bourgh

Mark Rawlings

Sir William Lucas/Mr Reynolds

Kirsty Rider

Miss Caroline Bingley

Tafline Steen

Miss Elizabeth Bennet

Geoff Arnold

Ensemble/Understudy

Jessica D'Arcy

Walking understudy

Rose D'Aulbey

Walking understudy

Ally Manson

Ensemble/Understudy

Creative team

Deborah Bruce

Director

Max Jones

Set Designer

Tom Piper

Costume Designer

Siân Williams

Movement Director

Lillian Henley

Composer

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Tina MacHugh

Lighting Designer

Matt McKenzie for Autograph

Sound Designer

Barbara Houseman

Season Associate Director (Voice & Text)

Lotte Hines

Casting Director

Hannah Banister

Resident Director

Reviews

Daily Mail

“A PERFECT PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: skittish, comical, easy on the eye and moving…great stuff”

Mail on Sunday

“Deborah Bruce’s charming production blows fresh air into Austen’s wonderful comedy”

Evening Standard

“Deborah Bruce’s production has such CHARM and ELEGANCE”

Metro

“Simon Reade’s adaptation discharges a quiverful of Austen’s most astringent observations and sketches in the essential contours of the smoulderingly rational central love story with sufficient clarity and grace to put a slightly goofy smile on even the severest spectator’s face”

Observer

In “Simon Reade’s SPARKLING new stage version…it’s Austen, still DAZZLING after 200 years”

The Times

"The MAGNIFICENT Felicity Montagu rules the stage as an anxiously energised Mrs Bennet."

Daily Express

“ELEGANT, AMUSING and HEARTFELT... the cast is immaculate from Tafline Steen as Elizabeth Bennet to Benjamin Dilloway as a perfect Mr Darcy. Whether you’re a Jane Austen fan or not, THIS IS A REAL TREAT.”