14 – 19 April

Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of), Isobel McArthur’s audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s most iconic love story, is set to visit the Theatre Royal Bath from Monday 14^th to Saturday 19^th April as part of a nationwide tour. A hit with audiences in the West End and across the UK, the show has garnered a host of five-star reviews and won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy.

It’s the 1800s. It’s party time. Let the ruthless matchmaking begin. 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.

The cast for the current UK tour features Eleanor Kane as Anne, Mary Bennet, Lydia Bennet, Mr Collins and Mrs Gardiner. Eleanor’s previous credits include Fun Home at London’s Young Vic and Hex at the National Theatre. Rhianna McGreevy, who plays the roles of Flo, Mrs Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, has previously performed in Shakespeare’s Globe summer tour in Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice and The Taming of the Shrew, and toured with Changeling Theatre in The Winter’s Tale and Nell Gwynn. Emma Rose Creaner, who plays Tillie, Charlotte Lucas, Charles Bingley and Miss Bingley, has previous stage credits including Peter Pan at Dublin’s Gate Theatre and Tartuffe at the Abbey Theatre. Naomi Preston Low, who plays the roles of Effie and Elizabeth Bennet, has recently been seen in Further Than the Furthest Thing at Cornwall’s Minack Theatre and The Wind and The Rain at London’s Finborough Theatre. Christine Steel, who recently performed in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Scottish National Orchestra, appears as Clara, Jane Bennet, George Wickham and Lady Catherine de Burgh. The company is completed by understudies Isobel Donkin, Susie Barrett and Georgia May Firth.

Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) premiered at Glasgow’s Tron Theatre in 2018, before touring the UK in 2019/2020, followed by a West End transfer in 2021. The show returned on nationwide tour in 2022/2023, visiting the Theatre Royal Bath for the first time in January 2023.

The 2024/2025 UK tour is directed by multi award-winning actor, director and playwright Isobel McArthur. In addition to winning the Olivier Award for Best Comedy for Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of), Isobel won the 2022 Evening Standard Emerging Talent Award. As an actor and musician, she has performed in many of the UK’s major playhouses in collaboration with Ella Hickson, Mike Bartlett and Anthony Neilson, as well as in her own plays How To Sing It, Daphne Oram’s Wonderful World of Sound and the lauded Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of). As a playwright-director, Isobel’s other recent productions include her touring adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped (National Theatre of Scotland), her original sell-out Fringe First Winner The Grand Old Opera House Hotel (Traverse Theatre) and her adaptation of Thomas Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West (Royal Shakespeare Company). Isobel has also won The Scotsman’s Fringe First Award, The List Hot 100 Award and The Saltire Society’s 40 Under 40, alongside award nominations for The Stage’s Best West End Debut and WhatsOnStage’s Best Supporting Actor and Best New Play.

To purchase tickets, contact the Theatre Royal Bath Box Office on 01225 448844 or book online at theatreroyal.org.uk

Photography credit: Mihaela Bodlovic

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