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  • Austentatious at the Nottingham Playhouse: ‘Mansfield Town FC’

    14th Oct 2019 by

    Austen-based comedy turns out (unsurprisingly) to be my perfect form of entertainment. In the run up to the performance I was nervous that my tendency to purism would spoil my evening (elements of the Austentatious radio special had felt more Dickensian than Janeite…). I needn’t have worried: Austentatious outclassed all my expectations and they were… Read more

  • ‘Sanditon’: Episode 1 First Thoughts

    26th Aug 2019 by

    For me, the first episode was something of an emotional rollercoaster, but probably not for the reasons Andrew Davies would have hoped for. Moments of joy at seeing Austen’s fragment brought to life were frequently overcome by outrage as the more unnecessary liberties taken with the text started to stack up. I don’t think I… Read more

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