Comedy by Isobel McArthur / After Jane Austen German by Silke Pfeiffer
It's complicated. Mrs. Bennet has five daughters that she urgently needs to marry. As stipulated by patriarchal inheritance law, at least one of the daughters has to get herself a bachelor befitting her station in order to secure the family's inheritance. When the exceptionally amiable and also exceptionally wealthy Charles Bingley moves into the neighborhood, happiness seems within reach. At the town ball, the motto is: Entertain! Dance! Singing! While sparks begin to fly between Jane and Bingley, the proud Elizabeth clashes with the snooty Mr. Darcy. On the way to the happy ending, there are of course numerous misunderstandings to be cleared up, wounded vanities to be healed and emotional entanglements to be untangled.
In Isobel McArthur's acclaimed new version of Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice, five maids finally take the floor and tell a modern, fast-paced and witty story about economic dependencies and female self-determination. Jane Austen meets pop culture, and when emotions get the better of them, they take to the microphone and sing.
