Back by popular demand!  You are once again invited into the Jane Austen household to experience the warmth of a Regency winter entertainment.

Inspired by the Austens who regularly put on entertainments for their family and friends to brighten the dark winter days, you will be welcomed into the warmth – of a blazing fire, a hot drink, and above all of the wit and cheer of the entertainment themselves.   Join the Austen family as they entertain you with music, song, poetry, and a theatrical – this one based on the work of Jane’s Mansfield Park:

Meet the Bertram family. While father is away the play’s the thing. Behind the guise of theatricals romance, temptation and indecorum reign.  Will Edmund, with Fanny Price’s help,  win the battle against such goings on or will he succumb to the oh-so-tempting Miss Mary Crawford?

Theatrics at Manfield Park is written and directed by Joan Bryans whose previous winter entertainments include the popular Looking for Mr. Darcy, Regency Revels and A Jane Austen Holiday Fayre.  Joan also wrote and directed the very well received  Birthright (subsequently published by Playwrights Press), Two Years in Nicola, and By Some Divine Mistake, the story of Alma Rattenbury  which ran at the Jericho Arts Centre last season.

Theatrics at Mansfield Park stars Katherine Hill as Jane Austen,  Melissa Oei as Mary Crawford and Samuel B. Barnes as Edmund, with Julie Farr, Susan Dalton, James Gill,  Frances Herzer, John-David Papp, Tony Rein, Diana Sandberg, Melody Schaal, Paul Toolan, and Daniel Unruh. Musical Director & musician Pat Unruh. Costume design is by Catherine E. Carr, lighting design by Mimi Abrahams, sound design by Darren W. Hales and stage management by Jon Megella.