Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) (Isobel McArthur, 2018)
The stage comedy in which five women, playing the servants, perform the whole story with karaoke.
The servants know everything. Let them tell it, play every role themselves, and sing pop songs at the big moments.
You want the funny version, you might stage it, or you saw it and want the script.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the plot and the characters, all of them played by five performers.
Changes: the frame, the tone and the soundtrack: the servants put the story on for the household, with karaoke from two centuries of love songs.
Five women play every role as the servants putting the story on, with karaoke. First staged by Blood of the Young at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in 2018; West End at the Criterion from October 2021; Olivier Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play, 2022.
Whose story is it?
the servants’, who play everyone else.
How much time does it ask?
A 120-page script. First staged at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in 2018; Olivier Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play, 2022; touring the UK until May 2027.
Nick Hern Books, West End edition, 11 November 2021, 120 pages.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · The play and its tour — Nick Hern Books · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More ways into Longbourn: Penguin Classics, ed. Vivien Jones (2002) · The Oxford World’s Classics edition (2020) · The Norton Critical Edition, fourth edition