Sense and Sensibility

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Two women standing in front of rolling green fields

By Jane Austen

Adapted by Frances Poet

Pitlochry Festival Theatre and OVO Production

Marianne Dashwood, wild and impulsive, falls dangerously in love with the charming but roguish John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor’s warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo.

Whilst Marianne wears her heart on her sleeve, Elinor suffers her own private heartbreak but conceals her true feelings, even from those closest to her.

Will the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love?

One of English literature’s most beloved classics is given a contemporary makeover in a fresh and funny adaptation by award winning Scottish playwright Frances Poet.

Includes musical arrangements and song performed by the cast.

This production can also be seen at OVO in St. Albans from 2 – 7 July and 12 – 18 August.

USEFUL INFORMATION

Venue: Auditorium

Run dates: 21 Jun – 27 Sep 2024

Running time: 2 hours 30 minutes, including a 20 minute interval

Recommended Age Guidance: 11+

Accessible Performances

Audio Description: 24 Jul 2pm, 4 Sep 7.30pm. Ask about a Touch Tour

BSL: 31 Aug 2pm

Captioned: 5 Sep 2pm

Relaxed and Dementia Friendly: 20 Sep 2pm

Matinee Audience Club: 24 August

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The Scotsman

“gorgeous, witty pair of performances”

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The Herald

“a merry dance of a show”

Creatives

Director Adam Nichols

Set Designer Nick Trueman

Costume Designer Julie Carlin

Lighting Designer Jeanine Byrne

Sound Designer Pippa Murphy

Musical Arranger Adam Morris

Music Supervisor Connor Going

Movement Director Stephanie Allison

Cast

Elinor Dashwood Kirsty Findlay

Marianne Dashwood Lola Aluko

Mrs Dashwood/Lucy Steele Signe Larsson

Fanny Dashwood/Mrs Jennings Nina Kristofferson

Edward Ferrars/Robert Ferrars Connor Going

Mr John Dashwood/Colonel Brandon Chris Coxon

Sir John Middleton/Mrs Ferrars Robin Simpson

Willoughby Luke Wilson

Cast

Kirsty Findlay

Kirsty Findlay

Kirsty trained at Edinburgh Napier University in Acting and English Literature. Kirsty was nominated with the 2016 cast of Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre of Scotland) for an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

Theatre credits: Footloose, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Sense and Sensibility (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Forever Home, Exquisite Corpse and Oscar (A Play, A Pie & A Pint); A Christmas Carol (Dundee Rep); A Mother’s Song (Macrobert Arts Centre); Islander: The Musical (Helen Milne Productions, New York Off-Broadway, UK Tour & London transfer); Jack & the Beanstalk (Perth Theatre); Jamie & the Unicorn (The Gaiety Theatre); Christmas Tales (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Unspotted Snow (Mull Theatre); Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre of Scotland & Sonia Friedman Productions); Shattered (In Motion Theatre); Girl Meets Boy (National Theatre of Scotland) and Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast (Bard in the Botanics/Byre Theatre).

Film/Radio/TV credits: Close (Tom Gentle Productions); Scenes for Survival (National Theatre of Scotland/BBC); On the Outside (Nasreen Sarerei); Good Girls (Edinburgh International Film Festival/Edinburgh Napier University) and Lethe (December Works).
Lola Aluko

Lola Aluko

Lola trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Theatre credits: Macbeth (English Touring Theatre); Medea (National Theatre of Scotland); Interiors (Vanishing Point); Opening Time (A Play, A Pie and A Pint); The Angry Brigade, The Seagull, Human Animals and Maryland (Royal Conservatoire Scotland).

Film/Radio/TV credits: The Demon Headmaster (BBC); The Wedding (Create Anything/
BBC Scotland) which was shortlisted for the Digital Broadcast Awards.
Signe Larsson

Signe Larsson

Signe Larsson grew up in Stockholm, Sweden and moved to London to study Acting Musicianship at Mountview, where she became the first actor-musician to receive the Gyearbuor Asante Award for Acting.

Theatre credits: The Wizard of Oz (The Watermill Theatre)
Nina Kristofferson

Nina Kristofferson

Nina trained at the Guildford School of Acting. She is a multi-award-winning actor, singer, writer, producer, director and teacher. She won the Award of Excellence at The Houses of Parliament (BHM) and the GAB Award for Excellence in The Arts for Africa & Africans around the World.

Theatre credits: Liz Imbrie in High Society, Chiffon in Little Shop of Horrors, Mrs Vanderkieft in The Sting, The Girl in Blues In The Night along with Medea in Medea, Cleopatra in Anthony & Cleopatra and Billie Holiday in her self-penned West End, Nina Kristofferson’s Billie Holiday Story and Nina Kristofferson’s Timeless. In 2024 she will be performing in the Billie Holiday Tour.

Film/Radio/TV credits: As a singer and actor Nina has worked around the world in film, TV, theatre and radio with regular appearances on BBC London Radio as well as being a co-presenter for Channel 2 – Talk Radio Women in Business Radio Show. She is the voice of CEO, Brenna Casstlechop in Harold Halibut’s new game to be released this year.
Connor Going

Connor Going

Connor trained at The University of Glasgow and Royal Academy of Music in London. This is Connor’s third repertory season at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

Theatre credits: Noises Off, Around the World in 80 Days and The Wind in the Willows (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Sunshine on Leith (Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Capital Theatres); Footloose (West End, UK & International Tour); The Choir of Man (Straz Center, USA Tour & Australia Tour); Robin Hood (Theatr Clwyd); Indecent Proposal (Southwark Playhouse); A Christmas Carol (Barn Theatre Cirencester) and The Pirates of Penzance (Reid Concert Hall).

Film/Radio/TV credits: Good Omens Series 2 (Amazon Prime); Behind Her Eyes (Netflix); The Dad Squad (BBC); Cinderella (Sony Films); Harry Potter & The Cursed Child (West End); The Choir of Man (Original Cast Recording & Christmas Album); U2 at the BBC (Abbey Road Studios); The Beatles Orchestrated (Abbey Road Studios) and Donald & Benoit (Sound Stage, Pitlochry Festival Theatre).
Chris Coxon

Chris Coxon

Theatre credits: The Wizard of Oz (The Watermill Theatre); Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Leicester Curve/UK Tour); A Christmas Carol (European Tour); The Muddy Choir (UK Tour); Beauty and the Beast (Alexandra Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (International Tour); Willy Wonka (Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre, Dubai); Dreamboats and Miniskirts (UK Tour); Aladdin (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds), Alice in Wonderland (Lichfield Garrick); Save the Last Dance for Me (UK Tour); The Machine Gunners (Polka Theatre); Dreamboats and Petticoats (UK/Ireland Tour); Rock & Roll Aladdin (Shaw Theatre), SpongeBob SquarePants (Hammersmith Apollo/UK Tour); Spamalot (Palace Theatre); Good Thing Going – Simply Sondheim (Cadogan Hall); Peter Pan (Anvil Arts); Comedy of Errors, Jekyll & Hyde, The Tempest, Bleak House, Sense and Sensibility, Treasure Island and The War of the Worlds (The Pantaloons)

Film/Radio/TV credits: The Little Stranger (Film4); The Real Story of Hacksaw Ridge (ITV Studios);
Things Not to Say to Someone with Tourette’s Syndrome (BBC Three) and Sherlock Holmes (The
Asylum). Chris also appeared in the Emmy nominated #WeThe15 campaign video.

Other: Chris is a presenter for Durham OnAir, has lent his voice to dozens of audiobooks, animations and videogames, and also runs the audiobook production company Winooski Tyne.
Robin Simpson

Robin Simpson

Robin is an English actor and storyteller. Robin is resident Dame at York Theatre Royal and was nominated for a National Pantomime award in 2022.

Theatre credits: Gaslight, Men of the World (Devonshire Park Theatre); Guy Fawkes (York Theatre Royal); Rep season at Harrogate Theatre; Classic (Edinburgh Fringe with Hope Mill Theatre/Her Productions); Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It (Northern Broadsides); Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre); Dirty Laundry (Claybody Theatre); Almost a Sacred Duty, Anna of the Five Towns, Beryl, A Voyage Round my Father and Laurel and Hardy (New Vic Theatre); Chamaco (HOME); Neverland (Lakeside Arts); Boeing Boeing, Bedroom Farce, David Copperfield, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Road to Nab End and Travels with my Aunt (Oldham Coliseum Theatre); The Travelling Pantomime, The Wind in the Willows, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Seagull, Hansel and Gretel, The Railway Children, Pinocchio, Pygmalion and The Little Mermaid (York Theatre Royal); Inside Out of Mind (Meeting Ground Theatre Company); Grandpa in my Pocket (Nottingham Playhouse); Lost Boy Racer (Lawrence Batley Theatre); We Love You City! (Belgrade Theatre); Me, as a Penguin, It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow and Flat Stanley (Leeds Playhouse); A Passionate Woman (Chester Gateway and The Theatre by the Lake); Frankie and Tommy, The Rivals, Red Skies over the Severn and The Century Plays (Swan Theatre).

Film/Radio/TV credits: The Continental: From the World of John Wick (Peacock & Amazon Prime); Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Liverpool 1, Home Fires and See No Evil: The Moors Murders (ITV); Doctors, Holby City and Waterloo Road (BBC).
Luke Wilson

Luke Wilson

Luke Wilson trained at RADA.

Theatre credits: Much Ado About Nothing (Royal Shakespeare Company); Rockets & Blue Lights (National Theatre); Under the Sun (The Royal Court); The Mountain Top (The Theatre Chipping Norton); Bootycandy (Gate Theatre); Run it Back for Talawa, Fragments of a Complicated Mind (Theatre503); Romeo and Juliet (Red Rose Chain); Twelfth Night (Southwark Playhouse); La Bayadere (Royal Opera House); Twelfth Night (The Handle Bards); The Odyssey Festival (Prometheus Unbound) (Cadogan Hall); Shakespeare Birthday Luncheon (The Pragnell Shakespeare Birthday Award); The Scottsboro Boys (Fiery Angel) and The Lion King (The Lyceum Theatre).

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