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Drama
Wednesday 20 January 2010
Tea with Austen
featuring the Edinburgh hit drama
Austen's Women
THEATRE TOURS INTERNATIONAL
English tea and play: €16
play only: €12
Tea with Austen
Our first drama of 2010 is Austen's Women, a superb one woman show which revisits some of Jane Austen's most famous heroines using only the author's words.
A runaway hit at last year's Edinburgh Fringe, in honour of the occasion we will be preceding the performance with an English tea. Customers will sit down to a delicious array of freshly baked treats and fancies, such as Victoria sponge cake, petit fours, scones with jam and cream, delicate finger sandwiches and more besides.
Prebooking essential as places are limited and the food is being baked fresh to order. Our caterer can provide gluten free options so please let us know of any special dietary requirements at the time of booking.
Tea will be served from 6.30pm to 7.30pm, with the performance starting at 8pm.
Austen's Women
"frilly, flowing and flamboyant in all the right places" The Stage
Above: Regency elegance from Rebecca Vaughan.
Jane Austen, 'the mother of romance novelists' created some of literature's most celebrated characters. She speaks for the yearning heart as much now as in her own day... But just how much have things really changed for women since then?
In a bold revisiting using nothing but the words of Austen herself, the souls of Emma Woodhouse, Lizzy Bennet, Mrs Norris, Miss Bates and many more are brilliantly illuminated. Taken out of context (and in the absence of the men!) these women speak volumes for their sex and their standing constrained by the stringent societal code of their time.
Lovers of Jane Austen or the uninitiated few will revel in appreciation of the queen of English Literature distilled to her essence.
Rebecca Vaughan's solo debut was a fabulous hit at Edinburgh 2009 under the direction of Guy Masterson.
REVIEWS FROM EDINBURGH 2009
"Cleverly written and superbly performed by Rebecca Vaughan...Guy Masterson has done it again" (One4Review)
"Vaughan's performance was unfaultable...this is a thoroughly enjoyable exploration of women & is thoroughly recommended" (Edinburgh Guide)
"Austen's Women could give a few tips to some comedy shows, not just in timing and subject material, but use of pathos and verisimilitude. Enjoy. " (Edinburgh Evening News)
"A startling feat of performance, portrayal, writing & direction...each character has been carefully created and each is a piece in itself... a strongly recommended show" (Fringe Review)
"Passes the Austen-fan test with flying colours...An Austen treat" (Hairline)
"A loving homage" (The Stage)
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See this show and two others for just €30 (excludes English tea).
A journey into the "Two inches of ivory" with Lizzy Bennet, Emma Woodhouse, Anne Elliot, The Dashwood Sisters and many more, as they fall in and out of love, make friends and alienate others, commit notorious improprieties and learn important life lessons.
One for every Jane Austen fan.