Pride and Prejudice

By Jane Austen; Adapted by Abigail Pickard Price with Sarah Gobran and Matt Pinches

Directed by Abigail Pickard Price
Set & Costume Design by Neil Irish
Assistant Design & Costume Supervision by Anett Black
Movement by Amy Lawrence
Lighting by Mark Dymock 
Sound by Matt Eaton 

ABIGAIL PICKARD PRICE – Adaptor & Director

Abigail is a freelance director and Associate Director of The Watermill Theatre. Her recent credits include:

As Director: Macbeth, Our Man in Havana, Just So, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Prince and the Pauper, Burke and Hare (The Watermill); Burke and Hare (New Wolsey, Jermyn Street Theatre, transfer from The Watermill, nominated Best Director, Off West End Awards); Sophia (film theatre hybrid); Pen Pals (audio drama for Rural Arts); Macbeth (Big Brum);  Bee Happy (The Old Red Lion Theatre); The Tinderbox (Charing Cross Theatre); Baby (The Hope Theatre); Anna Weiss (The Space nominated Best Director, Off West End Awards);  Shrew (International Tour). As well as numerous productions for drama schools including Rose Bruford, GSA, Mountview and Drama Studio.

As Associate/ Resident/ Assistant Director: A Voyage Round My Father, God of Carnage, The Nightingales (Theatre Royal Bath and on Tour); The Argument (Theatre Royal Bath); Titanic (International Tour); Twelfth Night (Wiltons Music Hall); Violet, Harold and Maude, The Woman in White,  Ragtime, Death Takes a Holiday and Titanic (Charing Cross Theatre); Crazy For You (UK Tour); Twelfth Night/ Romeo and Juliet (performing in rep) (The Watermill & International Tour);  Crazy For You, The Adventures of Pinocchio (The Watermill)

Cast

Luke Barton

Trained: Oxford School of Drama.

Recent Theatre includes: Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (Salisbury Playhouse/Bolton Octagon); The Valley of Fear, Frankenstein and The Sign of Four (Blackeyed Theatre, UK Tours); The Hound of the Baskervilles (The Lost Estate); One Man, Two Guvnors (New Wolsey, Ipswich and Nuffield, Southampton); Busman’s Honeymoon, The Unexpected Guest and Spider’s Web (Mill at Sonning); Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Henry V (Merely Theatre, UK Tours); That Is All You Need to Know (Idle Motion, UK Tour); Misterman (Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse); After Three Sisters (Living Record Productions/Brockley Jack).

Television includes: Doctors (BBC).

Sarah Gobran

Trained: Guildford School of Acting

For GSC: Sarah is a co-founder and joint producer of GSC. To date, she has played The Wife of Bath, Jacques, Beatrice, Olivia, Adriana, Hermione, Katherina, Regan, Gwendolyn, Mistresses Page and Ford, Maria, Titania, Nerissa, Lady Capulet and the Princess of France as well as a fine line in woodland and farmyard animals including a fox, a shrew and a sheep. Sarah set up the Education Department and plays a key role in the creation and development of the outreach projects that GSC produce.

Theatre includes: Peter Pan (Proteus Theatre); Sugar Daddies (Stephen Joseph Theatre/Yvonne Arnaud Theatre); Far From the Madding Crowd (The Phoenix Theatre); Gulliver’s Travels (Sutton Theatres); Desires of Frankenstein (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Just William (Charles Cryer Theatre).

April Hughes

Training: East 15 Acting School

April spent two years playing Moaning Myrtle in the hit West End show Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Prior to this April played the leading role of Sandra in the Olivier Award winning The Play That Goes Wrong at the Duchess Theatre in the West End. She recently returned to the show as part of the No.1 UK tour.

Other recent roles include: playing the lead in Lipstick at Southwark Playhouse & Measured at the Hope Theatre. She won the Stage Acting award at Edinburgh Fringe in 2014 for her acclaimed performance in Freak which she also performed at Theatre 503; Freefall – a one woman play in partnership with Suffolk young carers. Girls Like That for Synergy (Unicorn Theatre) the site-specific Dracula for Open Book Theatre and the New Playwright project for Soho Theatre.

Television includes: The lead role of Mimi in three series of Dixi for BBC which won the children’s BAFTA