Pride and Prejudice* (* or something like that)

The Zurich Cantonal Theatre is performing at the Rigiblick Theatre.

‘After all, old maids don’t need material things, do they? No coal for the fire? A nice hot flush will do just fine.’
From ‘Pride and Prejudice* (*or something like that)’

“There’s a bit of a problem here with emotional repression. So don’t be surprised if, every now and then, someone starts singing out of the blue,” is how the audience is introduced, right at the start, to the particular circumstances of life in a cramped small town. But sudden karaoke interludes aren’t the only thing that makes Isobel McArthur’s acclaimed adaptation of Jane Austen’s masterpiece unusual and unique. With a modern, emancipated take whilst remaining surprisingly faithful to the original, McArthur gives a voice to those who – though indispensable – usually go unmentioned. For it is five maids who, in the truest sense of the word, set the tone, determine the well-being of their employers and, in a veritable tour de force, play not only the sarcastic Elizabeth Bennet and the snobbish Mr Darcy, but almost the entire cast of the novel.

Jane Austen’s famous novel as a zany pop comedy with music, told with a twinkle in the eye by five women in eighteen roles.

Ages 14 and over