What would my life have been like without Jane
Austen?
Ever since I was very young, one of my
favourite things has been to curl up on the sofa on a Sunday afternoon with my Mum to watch a Jane
Austen adaptation on the television. As soon as she thought I was old enough,
my Mum bought me a beautiful collection of hand-bound novels and these still
remain some of the most loved books sitting on our shelf - they were of course
the complete works of Jane Austen.
It seemed only fitting, therefore, when my husband
Noel and I decided to adapt a novel for the stage, that this should be an
Austen. As this was to be our very first production for our brand new theatre
company, we needed an author whose stories we could trust, not just for their
dramatic content, but also for their brilliantly drawn characters. The
wonderful Jane provided us with both of these and adapting Northanger Abbey was a complete joy.
So what would my life have been like without
Jane Austen? Well, we certainly wouldn't have such a successful first
production, it is an adaptation we will always be immensely proud of, mostly
because we hardly had to change a word. The incomparable Jane had done it all
for us!
Antonia
Upcoming Performances
Our award winning version of Northanger
Abbey will be continuing to tour the UK from January next year – visit www.boxtalesoup.co.uk/Calendar for more details and tickets!
The Company
Box Tale Soup is
the brainchild of professional actors Noel Byrne and Antonia Christophers. It
was formed from a desire to create genuinely fresh interpretations of classic
works and financially viable theatre. Drawing on their diverse backgrounds and
skills, Box Tale Soup is seeking to create theatre that is affordable, without
being compromised in quality or originality.
By restricting
ourselves to the use of a vintage trunk, the contents of our desk drawer and an
assortment of recycled materials, we believe our first production, Northanger
Abbey, has achieved exactly that: theatre on a proverbial shoe-string that
maintains the highest quality and is totally unique.
The
Performers
Noel Byrne and Antonia Christophers' previous
acting credits include the BBC's Dr Who and The Hour, HBO's award
winning Game of Thrones, CBBC's Mission 2110 and original work
for the Royal Court Theatre, London and Contact Theatre, Manchester. They
formed Box Tale Soup together in 2012.
1 comment:
Pretty fabulous isn't it, watching a Jane-film on TV with your mother. Do that a lot as well & can't get enough of it :) Sipping tea while watching Mr Darcy dance, or Knightley not dancing. Such fun and blissful those special moments together
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