About the Show

A new play reimagining Pride and Prejudice through the Bennet women’s perspective.

This world-premiere play by Emily Breeze, presented at Bedlam, adapts Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice with a focus on the relationships between the Bennet sisters and their mother. The production takes a contemporary and irreverent approach to the original text, examining Elizabeth Bennet’s romanticized future and the societal constraints placed on women. Performed by a female ensemble, the play features a single actor in the roles of all the male characters.

Critic Reviews (9)

"The play’s frothing comedy is studded with such moments of plain-spoken clarity."
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"4/5 Stars! Emily Breeze's irreverent riff on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is a delight."
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"The only characterization that doesn’t totally sit right is that of Mr. Collins, who is portrayed as being on the spectrum. At times, it seems we’re meant to take this as a sympathetic interpretation of the original character’s awkwardness"
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"Why must Austen take it on the chin all the time? Why doesn't somebody pick on the Brontë sisters?
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"Putting forth low-bar work is bad enough, but low-bar trashing of a classic is more distressing."
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Leave it to Bedlam to offer Jane Austen as a modern farce but dressed in Regency costumes.
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"Unless you’re unyielding to any re-interpretation of Austen’s work, you’ll have a grand time watching this show and leave with a smile plastered on your face."
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Ms. Breeze takes the romanticism that is forefront in the novel and presents it in a raw and real way that creates a bond between the sisters. At times vulnerable, occasionally vulgar, always real, the sisters never face their situations idealistically.
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