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Theatre

An affectionate exercise in comic sabotage: Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) reviewed

13 November 2021

9:00 AM

13 November 2021

9:00 AM

Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of)

until 17 April 2022, until 17 April 2022

Indecent Proposal

Southwark Playhouse, until 27 November

Let’s be honest. Jane Austen is popular because War and Peace doesn’t fit inside a handbag. Austen’s best-loved novel, Pride and Prejudice, has been updated in a fetching new production that treats the sacred text as a screwball comedy.

The fun starts before curtain-up with the cast of five girls messing about on stage and struggling with a chandelier that almost shatters but doesn’t.

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