Northanger Abbey

A delightful stage version of Jane Austen’s earliest novel. Tim Luscombe’s adaptation is an absolute delight: witty, fast moving and stylish.

Catherine Morland loves a good novel and the more ‘horrid’ it is the better. At 17, she is taken by her aunt to Bath where she encounters the social whirl denied her at home. When Catherine accepts an invitation to the Tilney’s country seat at Northanger Abbey, lurid images from her favourite gothic novel Mysteries of Udolpho threaten to overwhelm her. However, all misunderstandings are eventually resolved and, as in all the best Jane Austen novels, the young heroine finally gets her man…

Adapted by acclaimed Austen specialist Tim Luscombe, who’s Mansfield Park was also produced and toured by the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds.