Next month Dyad Productions are bringing their production of Austen’s Women: Lady Susan to the Studio at York Theatre Royal. Based on Jane Austen’s first full-length work from 1794 this new solo comedy show is a magnificently crafted tale of manipulation and manners.
Produced by the award-winning creators of That Knave, A Christmas Carol, I, Elizabeth, starring Rebecca Vaughan and directed by Andrew Margerison this is Austen as you’ve never seen her before.
Meet devil-may-care black widow, Lady Susan, (‘the most accomplished coquette in England’), hunting down not one, but two, fortunes; oppressed, rebellious daughter Frederica; long-suffering sister-in-law Catherine; family matriarch Mrs De Courcy; and insouciant best friend, Alicia.
Return to the Regency (or rather, Georgian) in this wickedly funny tale of society and the women trapped within it; their struggles, their desires, their temptations and manipulations – and at the vanguard, Lady Susan: charming, scheming, witty, and powerful; taking on society and making it her own. But has she met her match?
Austen’s Women: Lady Susan is at York Theatre Royal from 18 September – 20 September.
Find out more information and book your tickets here.
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