IN the summer of 2018 at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow, the young, Scottish actor and playwright Isobel McArthur and her ensemble took to the stage with her new, comic adaptation of Jane Austen’s most famous novel.
Titled Pride & Prejudice (Sort Of), the piece was performed by a cast comprised entirely of young, female actors, who played in costumes that crashed 19th and 21st-century styles, while being accompanied by carefully selected tracks from the canon of modern popular music.
The adaptation told the famous story of Elizabeth Bennet’s troubled romance with Fitzwilliam Darcy from the perspective of the servants in the novel. Female actors (and even props) played the male roles (McArthur herself performed the part of Darcy, as well as that of Elizabeth’s mother, Mrs Bennet).
