It’s the most welcome adaptation of Austen since someone shoved zombies intoPride And Predjudice.

Operantics, the celebrated team behind 2015’s staging ofCosi Fan Tutte, have just announced they will be staging an adaptation of Jane Austen’s classicMansfield Park. A study of intrigue, doomed romance and some very English traditions, the work will be well-known to the literary community at large, and those poor high school students forced to study it for the HSC.

That said, given Operantics’ track record,Mansfield Park is sure to be an endlessly watchable, utterly engrossing reworking of the original text, so even if Austen isn’t your thing, you’d do well to head along.

Mansfield Park will hit The Independent Theatre on Wednesday April 20, Saturday April 23, and Sunday April 24. More information is available on their website, here.

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