Northanger Abbey
June 2025
25th Thursday @7pm
26th Friday @7pm
July 2025
4th Saturday @ 2 pm and @ 6 pm
A family-friendly open-air production by professional touring theatre group The Moving Parts Theatre Company.
We welcome back the wonderfully creative Moving Parts Theatre Company.
Those of you who have joined us in previous years will definitely want to come again!
This time the play will be Jane Austen’s NORTHANGER ABBEY. Although this novel has had fewer stage adaptations than Austen’s other books, it is in many ways the most theatrical of all her works.
The heroine, Catherine Morland, is inexperienced in the ways of the world, but a wildly imaginative devotee of Gothic fiction. This adaptation for the stage will explore the tension between reality and fantasy - as young women in the novel, constrained by limited agency and social expectation, seek an imaginative escape and adventurous outlet through thrilling Gothic narratives.
The dramatisation intents to take the audience on a journey which shifts back and forth between the world of Regency parlours and parties and the mystical, melodramatic landscape of the Gothic thriller. Both music and ensemble movement will be key elements in effecting these transformations, and the company will be working once again with composer Tamara Douglas-Morris, who will create an original score of music for the show, and with Offiie- nominated movement director, Nevena Stojkov.
It should be a lot of fun!
Bring a rug or your own chairs, and a picnic. (Some chairs and wine and food will also be available on site).
Tickets
£25
£20 concessions (under 18, students and over 65)
£78 family ticket (2 adults & 2 children)
Tickets coming soon!
[NB: Some of the ticket cost goes to supporting the actors after a hard year, and a proportion goes to the two beneficiary charities of the Hampstead Summer Festival].
HSF 2025 Charity Beneficiaries:
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