MARINA by Elizabeth Lewis - A Rehearsed Reading Saturday 26th October | 8:00pm
Join us for a Rehearsed Reading of Elizabeth Lewis's latest play MARINA.
Elizabeth Lewis is an award-winning playwright who has written extensively for BBC Radio 4 and the theatre. She is currently a Royal Literary Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. She worked as an actress for many years before alighting on writing as her chosen career.
Her radio play Jane and Tom: The Real Pride and Prejudice starring Pennie Downie and Andrew Scott was the Telegraphs’ Gillian Reynolds Critic’s Choice. It was Elizabeth’s first foray into writing about the world of Jane Austen. Marina is her next.
Elizabeth was delighted when she happened upon an intriguing paragraph written by Jane as a young girl. These two paragraphs were playful, fantastical and somewhat crazy – everything a teenager should be and not at all like the traditional trajectory of the six most perfect novels she wrote as an adult. Elizabeth took this piece of writing and ran with it. She filled in the gaps and did what all writers do, asked herself… ‘What if?’ What if the characters that the teenage Jane had sketched were fleshed out and their story told? What if Jane wrote a play – we know she loved the theatre? What if she wrote a fairytale and not a novel grounded in realism and societal norms? Marina does not pretend or aspire to be the seventh novel, But it is the result of wondering what if Jane had continued with the paragraph of most intriguing writing - where would it have lead her?
Marina is Elizabeth’s answer to this question.
It is fitting that Elizabeth has chosen The Yard to stage the first professional reading of the play as the Hampshire countryside was the backdrop to Austen’s work and also features heavily in the play. It is home, it is safety, it is the place of return.
The evening promises to be a wonderful opportunity to hear for the first time this funny and original play, brought to life by a talented cast of professional actors.
Join us for a Rehearsed Reading of Elizabeth Lewis's latest play MARINA.
Elizabeth Lewis is an award-winning playwright who has written extensively for BBC Radio 4 and the theatre. She is currently a Royal Literary Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. She worked as an actress for many years before alighting on writing as her chosen career.
Her radio play Jane and Tom: The Real Pride and Prejudice starring Pennie Downie and Andrew Scott was the Telegraphs’ Gillian Reynolds Critic’s Choice. It was Elizabeth’s first foray into writing about the world of Jane Austen. Marina is her next.
Elizabeth was delighted when she happened upon an intriguing paragraph written by Jane as a young girl. These two paragraphs were playful, fantastical and somewhat crazy – everything a teenager should be and not at all like the traditional trajectory of the six most perfect novels she wrote as an adult. Elizabeth took this piece of writing and ran with it. She filled in the gaps and did what all writers do, asked herself… ‘What if?’ What if the characters that the teenage Jane had sketched were fleshed out and their story told? What if Jane wrote a play – we know she loved the theatre? What if she wrote a fairytale and not a novel grounded in realism and societal norms? Marina does not pretend or aspire to be the seventh novel, But it is the result of wondering what if Jane had continued with the paragraph of most intriguing writing - where would it have lead her?
Marina is Elizabeth’s answer to this question.
It is fitting that Elizabeth has chosen The Yard to stage the first professional reading of the play as the Hampshire countryside was the backdrop to Austen’s work and also features heavily in the play. It is home, it is safety, it is the place of return.
The evening promises to be a wonderful opportunity to hear for the first time this funny and original play, brought to life by a talented cast of professional actors.
Join us for a Rehearsed Reading of Elizabeth Lewis's latest play MARINA.
Elizabeth Lewis is an award-winning playwright who has written extensively for BBC Radio 4 and the theatre. She is currently a Royal Literary Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. She worked as an actress for many years before alighting on writing as her chosen career.
Her radio play Jane and Tom: The Real Pride and Prejudice starring Pennie Downie and Andrew Scott was the Telegraphs’ Gillian Reynolds Critic’s Choice. It was Elizabeth’s first foray into writing about the world of Jane Austen. Marina is her next.
Elizabeth was delighted when she happened upon an intriguing paragraph written by Jane as a young girl. These two paragraphs were playful, fantastical and somewhat crazy – everything a teenager should be and not at all like the traditional trajectory of the six most perfect novels she wrote as an adult. Elizabeth took this piece of writing and ran with it. She filled in the gaps and did what all writers do, asked herself… ‘What if?’ What if the characters that the teenage Jane had sketched were fleshed out and their story told? What if Jane wrote a play – we know she loved the theatre? What if she wrote a fairytale and not a novel grounded in realism and societal norms? Marina does not pretend or aspire to be the seventh novel, But it is the result of wondering what if Jane had continued with the paragraph of most intriguing writing - where would it have lead her?
Marina is Elizabeth’s answer to this question.
It is fitting that Elizabeth has chosen The Yard to stage the first professional reading of the play as the Hampshire countryside was the backdrop to Austen’s work and also features heavily in the play. It is home, it is safety, it is the place of return.
The evening promises to be a wonderful opportunity to hear for the first time this funny and original play, brought to life by a talented cast of professional actors.