Persuasion

Beautifully romantic, touchingly funny and often unbearably poignant, Austen's most personal novel is brought to the stage.

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers.”

Once upon a time, Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth were hopelessly in love. Persuaded by her family that he is not of her standing, she reluctantly ends their engagement and he leaves for the sea, his heart broken.

Anne soon realises her mistake and spends the next eight years as the ignored middle child of a spendthrift father, quietly fading into the background and forever regretting her decision.

Then he returns.

Having made his fortune, the now wealthy Captain Wentworth comes to seek a wife; a wife with strength of mind and a resolute character. Treating Anne with cold indifference, she can only watch with aching heart as he courts another. But will he ever forgive her?

Following on from the success of David Copperfield ‘superb... a master class in stage adaptation’, Les Miserables ‘…pure brilliance’ and Great Expectations‘ …outstanding’, the Regency world explodes into life with Hotbuckle’s trademark ensemble style.