Persuasion by Jane Austen at Genesian Theatre

Persuasion
by Jane Austen
Adapted by Tim Luscombe
Directed by Trudy Ritchie

Season: 29th June - 17th August 2019
Preview night 28th June
Friday and Saturday nights at 7.30pm
Sunday matine at 4.30pm

Persuasion is a story of a love diverted. Anne Elliott and Frederick Wentworth fall deeply in love, and yet their happiness is thwarted when Anne is persuaded by another to decline his offer of marriage. An entire war and 8 years of time separate them, when once again they are reintroduced...

This production of Persuasion will be a traditional text transported to an ethereal set that allows the story to move through different locations and time.