“I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like”

The 250th anniversary of Bath’s favourite writer is celebrated in fitting style with a new stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s comedy of manners, Emma.

The historic Theatre Royal Bath is the perfect setting to launch this new tour as the Georgian splendour of the city encapsulates the backdrop for many of Austen’s characters and stories.

The beautiful, high-spirited Emma Woodhouse is determined that she will never marry but loves to meddle in her friends’ and neighbours’ relationships. When her confidante and former governess, Miss Taylor weds her fiancé Mr Weston, Emma, having introduced the couple, takes credit for the marriage and decides that a future in matchmaking lies ahead of her.

So begins a comic journey through the lives and loves of Emma’s friends and neighbours,  embracing the burgeoning Regency social scene of Bath and Weymouth. But as the romantic web she weaves amongst her friends becomes ever more entangled, will Emma herself get swept up in true love’s wake…?

Jane Austen’s enduring novel is filled with memorable characters - the dashing Mr Knightley, Emma’s friends Jane Fairfax and Harriet Smith, the mercenary Reverend Elton and his delightfully pretentious wife Augusta.

https://www.theatreroyal.org.uk/events/emma/

Director: Stephen Unwin

Set & Costume Designer: Ceci Calf

Lighting Designer: Ben Ormerod

Sound Designer: John Leonard

Casting Director: Ginny Schiller

Associate Director: Millie Gaston

Choreographer: Natasha Harrison

Composer: Matthew Scott

Production Manager: Andrew Pye

Costume Supervisor: Heather Leat

Props Supervisor: Katie Balmforth