Huzzah! It’s Jane Austen’s 250th birthday bonanza and you’re invited to the ball of the season as Austen Found tours Auckland. Join Penny Ashton (Promise & Promiscuity, Olive Copperbottom), Lori Dungey (LOTR, M3GAN) and marvellous musical maestro Greg Ward, (Lyons & Ward) as they swoon, laugh and romp through an entirely improvised Austenian Musical. 

Charming suitors, meddlesome mothers, tight breeches and surprisingly well-educated girls will all paint a vivid picture in song, dance and passionate handholding. Are you addicted to Darcy? Bonkers for big balls? Lost all sense and sensibility? Then best be booking with haste. 

Rated: PG 14

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“An excellently executed, hilarious and side-splitting bit of nonsense to create tears of joy. All much-needed. Pure entertainment has real worth.” Otago Daily Times 

Complete Sell-out Comedy Festival (2007 and 2021) and Adelaide Fringe (2010) 

“Penny Ashton and Lory Dungey – two excellent improvisers who know what they’re doing.” – Dominion Post 2021 

“Austen Found is a superbly well-developed, outstanding triumph!” – Theatreview 2023 

“What I did not prepare myself for was just how outstanding the production would be. In all honesty I am still in some disbelief that the several players on stage improvised such brilliance on the spot.” – NZ Entertainment Blog

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MORE INFO: hotpink.co.nz/austen-found