It’s Austen’s 250th birthday bonanza and you’re invited to the ball! Join Penny Ashton, Lori Dungey & Greg Ward as they improvise a musical with with song, dance and passionate hand holding.
Huzzah! It’s Jane Austen’s 250th birthday bonanza and you’re invited to the ball of the season. Join Penny Ashton (Promise & Promiscuity, Olive Copperbottom), Lori Dungey (LOTR, M3GAN) and marvellous musical maestro Greg Ward, (Improv Bandits, Lyons & Ward) as they swoon, laugh and romp through an entirely improvised Austenian Musical.
Charming suitors, meddlesome mothers, tight breeches and surprisingly well-educated girls will all paint a vivid picture in song, dance and passionate handholding. Are you addicted to Darcy? Bonkers for big balls? Lost all sense and sensibility? Then best be booking with haste.
“An excellently executed, hilarious and side-splitting bit of nonsense to create tears of joy. All much-needed. Pure entertainment has real worth.” Otago Daily Times
Complete Sell-out Comedy Festival (2007 and 2021) and Adelaide Fringe (2010)
“Penny Ashton and Lory Dungey – two excellent improvisers who know what they’re doing.” – Dominion Post 2021
“Austen Found is a superbly well-developed, outstanding triumph!” – Theatreview 2023
“What I did not prepare myself for was just how outstanding the production would be. In all honesty I am still in some disbelief that the several players on stage improvised such brilliance on the spot.” – NZ Entertainment Blog
Presented by: Jane Austen
Creative Team: Concept - Penny Ashton Development and Direction Penny Ashton and Lori Dungey Produced Penny Ashton
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