Jane
Austen the Musical
South
Shields Customs House
Friday 20th October 2017
A new musical exploring the life and loves
of Jane Austen is coming to The Customs House as
part of a UK tour.
Jane Austen the Musical
has played to sell-out audiences at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Jane Austen Festival in
Bath and York New Musical Festival.
Following a small tour, it has now embarked
on a full UK tour, which stops
off at The Customs House on Friday, October 20, at 7.45pm.
Award-winning playwright and BBC Radio 2 Golden
Oldie nominee, Rob Winlow, is delighted to present the full version of his new
musical adaptation to the life of Jane Austen. He said: “Austen the Musical explores her
struggle to have her work published in a male-dominated environment, her failed
romances and her vow to reject a woman’s conventional lifestyle in Georgian
England. It tells the story of her transition from
a country parson’s daughter to one of the most widely read writers in English
literature, featuring stunning songs with moments of joy, despair and
heart-wrenching sadness.”
Rob wrote his first musical at 16 and has been writing and performing ever since, co-founding the York New Musical Festival in 2013.
This tour will be the last chance for
audiences to catch Austen the Musical before it heads Stateside for a US tour starting in
August 2018.
Austen was an English novelist known
primarily for six major novels, including Pride and Prejudice, Sense and
Sensibility and Persuasion, which commented upon the British landed gentry at
the end of the 18th century. This year marks the 200th
anniversary of her death, aged 41, which has been commemorated with the
inclusion of her image on the new £10 note.
Tickets:
Tickets for Austen the Musical are £16, or
£13 for Friends of The Customs House. Contact the box office on (0191) 454 1234
or book online at www.customshouse.co.uk
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