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Pride & Prejudice

BY

Kate Hammil

Where

Blackburn Empire Theatre

DATE

3-6 Mar, 2027

ABOUT THE PLAY

This isn’t your grandmother’s Austen! Bold, surprising, boisterous and timely, this Pride and Prejudice for a new era explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match in life. The outspoken Lizzy Bennet is determined to never marry, despite mounting pressure from society. But can she resist love, especially when that vaguely handsome, mildly amusing and impossibly aggravating Mr. Darcy keeps popping up at every turn?! Literature’s greatest tale of latent love has never felt so theatrical or so full of life as it does in this effervescent adaptation. Because what turns us into greater fools than the high-stakes game of love?

“The ever-ingenious Hamill has given us something completely and delightfully different.” – Wall Street Journal

“Hamill has a gift for condensing three-volume novels into galloping two-act plays. Her screwball Pride and Prejudice is as frolicsome as her earlier efforts. It hasn’t met a rib it can’t tickle.” – The New York Times