For the first time since Theatre by the Lake's opening year, the whole company of actors who make up the summer company join forces to perform in Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility, which takes to the theatre's Main House stage from August 9.
One of Austen’s most popular novels was immortalised in the 1995 film featuring Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman. The TBTL production is adapted by Olivier Award-winning writer Jessica Swale, who also adapted TBTL’s Christmas show The Secret Garden.
The fifth production in TBTL’s summer season, it features all ten of this season’s company of actors—the only show in which they all perform together and the first time since 1999 that a TBTL summer season company have all performed in the same show.
Things look bleak for sisters Marianne and Elinor Dashwood when they find themselves cheated out of their inheritance and turfed out of their home with little money to live on and even less to recommend themselves to suitors.
Banished to a chilly cottage in Devonshire, the arrival of a dashing stranger promises to change their fortunes forever.
Sense & Sensibility plays to 26 October (in rep with Single Spies and Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense in the Main House, and Rails and Bold Girls in the Studio).
Meanwhile, the venue is to transfer five of their Cumbrian-made summer season productions to York Theatre Royal in the autumn. This follows the recent transfer of their 2017 Christmas show, The Secret Garden, to the same venue which will run from 27 July to 25 August as well as their co-production with York Theatre Royal of Hymn to Love, which played in April.
Billed as The Lakes Season, all three Main House and two Studio shows will travel east for a two week run from November 6 to 17.