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Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of), Leeds Playhouse/Touring
Jane Austen goes pop in raucous rendition of one of her greatest hits
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Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
BELOW-STAIRS maids never get placed centre stage, even though there can be no romance without clean sheets and that’s the premise of Glasgow-based Blood of the Young’s adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.
HAVING FUN: The cast of Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) (Pic: Mihaela Bodlovic)
It’s a slightly misleading framing of Isobel McArthur’s update of Jane Austen’s novel, which only gives superficial attention to the servants. Yet, directed by Paul Brotherston, it’s nonetheless a delightfully raucous production that swaps the book’s ironic politeness for direct, expletive-rich humour.
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