Austen’s Women: Lady Susan

Jane Austen’s magnificently crafted tale of manipulation and manners.

The award-winning creators of Austen’s Women, A Christmas Carol, I, Elizabeth, Female Gothic, Christmas Gothic, A Room of One’s Own and That Knave, Raleigh are back with a brand new solo comedy show: Jane Austen’s magnificently crafted tale of manipulation and manners.

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?

Based on Jane Austen’s first full-length work from 1794, this is Austen as you’ve never seen her before!

Created in collaboration with The Old Town Hall, Hemel Hempstead.