LOVE
IS IN THE AIR AS JANE AUSTEN’S ULTIMATE ROMANTIC COMEDY OPENS AT
NEWCASTLE THEATRE ROYAL ON VALENTINE’S DAY
Pride
and Prejudice
Newcastle Theatre Royal
Tuesday 14th – Saturday 18th February 2017
As the Bennet sisters
haplessly search for love it is Mr. Darcy who unwittingly finds his match when the acclaimed production of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice returns to the
Theatre Royal Tuesday 14th – Saturday 18th
February 2017.
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The cast will feature Matthew
Kelly as Mr. Bennet, Felicity Montagu as Mrs. Bennet, Tafline Steen as
Elizabeth Bennet, Benjamin Dilloway as Mr. Darcy and Doña Croll as Lady
Catherine De Bourgh.
Matthew Kelly has appeared several
times in the West End, as the original Stanley in Funny Peculiar, in Waiting For Godot
with Ian McKellen and Roger Rees, Tim Firth’s play Sign of the Times,
the musical Lend Me A Tenor! and as Lennie in the Birmingham Repertory
Theatre’s production of Of Mice and Men at the Savoy Theatre where his
performance won him the Olivier Award for Best Actor.
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His other most recent theatre
credits include The Jew of Malta, Volpone and Love’s Sacrifice
for the RSC, Toast (Park Theatre/59E59, New York), Twelfth Night (Liverpool Everyman) and The
History Boys (Crucible, Sheffield). Television work includes the award-winning
thriller Cold Blood, Benidorm and Bleak House - although
he is perhaps still best known for presenting ITV’s You Bet! and Stars
in their Eyes.
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Felicity Montagu – best known for
playing long-suffering PA Lynn in the TV series I’m Alan Partridge and
the 2013 film Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa – is to play Mrs. Bennet who,
alongside her husband, sees the perfect opportunity to improve her family’s
social standing when the wealthy Mr. Bingley and his eligible friend Mr. Darcy
move to the neighbourhood. But while Bingley takes an immediate liking to
their eldest daughter Jane, the dismissive
Darcy instantly clashes with the Bennet’s headstrong second daughter,
Elizabeth.
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Most recently seen playing Mrs. Mainwaring in the 2016
film remake of Dad’s Army, Felicity’s other
notable roles include Perpetua in Bridget Jones's Diary, Caroline Bosman in
ITV’s Doc Martin and Sue 2 in BBC’s Nighty Night. Other film credits
include I Want Candy and Confetti, and other television credits
include The Durrells (ITV), Mapp and Lucia (BBC), and three series of Hank Zipzer (CBBC). On stage, Felicity has starred in Quartermaine’s
Terms alongside Rowan Atkinson (Wyndham’s Theatre), The Shaughraun
(National Theatre) and Angels in America (National Theatre).
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Tafline Steen made her
professional debut as Jess in King Charles III at the Almeida Theatre, before reprising her role
in the West End and on Broadway and Benjamin Dilloway has appeared on screen in
Kingsman: The Secret Service, New Blood (BBC) and Silk (BBC), with stage work including Of Mice and Men
(Birmingham Rep) and King Lear (Almeida Theatre). Doña Croll is best
known for her screen roles as Vera Corrigan in Doctors (BBC) and Pearl McHugh in Family Affairs
(Channel 5), with theatre credits including All My Sons (Birmingham
Rep), Heresy of Love (Royal Shakespeare Company) and The Last Days of
Judas Iscariot.
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Celebrating the legacy of Jane Austen in the bicentennial year of her
death, Regent’s Park Theatre’s critically acclaimed production of Pride and
Prejudice, one of the most universally loved and quintessentially English
novels of all time, marks the return of
Regent’s Park Theatre to Newcastle Theatre Royal following their smash hit
productions of To Kill a Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies.
First published in 1813, Pride and
Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in English
literature, selling over 20 million copies and spawning numerous adaptations,
most notably the 1940 film starring Laurence Olivier and the 1995 BBC adaptation
starring Colin Firth.
Tickets:
Pride
and Prejudice is at Newcastle
Theatre Royal from Tue 14 until Sat 18 February 2017, playing evenings at 7.30pm,
matinees on Wed and Thu 2pm and
Sat 2.30pm. Tickets from £14.50 and can be purchased from the
Theatre Royal Box Office on 08448 11 21 21. Calls cost 7ppm plus your phone
company’s access charge or book online at www.theatreroyal.co.uk
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