Direct from its triumph in the West End where it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy and the Evening Standard Award, Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) returns to Lowry, Salford by public demand next month.

IT’S THE 1800S. IT’S PARTY TIME. LET THE RUTHLESS MATCHMAKING BEGIN.

A unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s classic love story., Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is at Lowry from Tuesday 18th Saturday 22nd March 2025.

Men, money and microphones will be fought over in this irreverent but affectionate adaptation where the stakes couldn’t be higher when it comes to romance.

The show features a string of pop classics including Young Hearts Run Free, Will You Love Me Tomorrow and You’re So Vain.

Since opening, Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) has gone on to take the West End by storm – as well as the Olivier Award it scooped winning an Evening Standard Theatre Award for writer and director Isobel McArthur.

The cast for this new production includes; from Cork, Emma Rose Creaner whose previous credits include (Peter Pan at the Gate Theatre, Dublin and Tartuffe at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin) as role as Tillie, Charlotte Lucas, Charles Bingley and Miss Bingley; from Glasgow, Eleanor Kane (Medium Alison in Fun Home at the Young Vic, and Hex at the National Theatre, London) as Anne, Mary Bennet, Lydia Bennet and Mr Gardiner; from Brighton, Rhianna McGreevy (The Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare’s Globe) as Flo, Mrs Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy; from Ilford, Naomi Preston Low (Further Than the Furthest Thing at the Minack Theatre, Cornwall, and The Wind and The Rain at the Finborough Theatre) as Effie and Elizabeth Bennet; and from Glasgow, Christine Steel (A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Scottish National Orchestra) as Clara, Jane Bennet, and Lady Catherine de Burgh. Also joining the company; from Washington, Tyne and Wear Isobel Donkin; from Newcastle, via Portsmouth, Susie Barrett; and from Frodsham, is Georgia Firth.

Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) is directed by Olivier and Evening Standard Theatre Award Winner Isobel McArthur. Comedy staging is by Jos Houben, design by Ana Inés Jabares-Pita, lighting by Colin Grenfell, musical supervision by Michael John McCarthy, sound design by Michael John McCarthy and Dylan Saberton for Autograph, choreography by Emily Jane Boyle, associate director is Martin Leonard, assistant director is Finlay Glen, choreography by Emily Jane Boyle, costume supervisor is Morag Pirrie, fight director is Claire Llewellyn, production manager is Blair Halliday, company manager is Andrew Speed, deputy stage manager is Heather Robertson, assistant stage manager is Tyler Gregory, sound operator is Shannon James, wardrobe by Rob Bicknell, casting by Sarah Bird and Marc Frankum.