LOVERS' VOWS
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Historia presents -
Lovers' Vows
NEWS November 2024
HISTORIA THEATRE COMPANY has a new production coming up.
This is LOVERS’ VOWS by Elizabeth Inchbald, directed by Kenneth Michaels, and published in 1798.
It had at least 6 productions in Bath while Jane Austen was living there 1801-1806. So, no wonder it plays such a huge role affecting the action and the lives of the characters in her novel MANSFIELD PARK!
NEWS December 2024
We now have a complete cast list - check it out further down on this page.
NEWS January 2024
Did you know? It is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen this year. The Radio 4 presenters suggested several ways to celebrate:
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Read her books
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Go to her much loved home - Chawton House
We say: Excellent suggestions! And we would counsel a third:
Go to the BROCKLEY JACK to see LOVERS’ VOWS which features so prominently in MANSFIELD PARK and enjoy!
Paddy Gormley has kindly provided the photos below from the production and our rehearsals. And... we still got tickets available for our shows until 1 February.
ABOVE:
Kate explains WHY we are doing LOVERS’ VOWS
(click image to play & listen)
NEWS 25 January 2024
Tabitha James (founder and chief editor of A Young(ish) Perspective has published a great conversation about our play:
Dr. Anna Ananieva of Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen has published a blog post about our play:
Kate Glover, From Kotzebue to Austen: Staging Elizabeth Inchbald’s Forgotten Masterpiece.
In: Kotzebue International (25 Januar 2025). "Kotzebue International" (ISSN 2752-2571): https://kotzebue.hypotheses.org/
Press for this production
‘as entertainment this spirited staging is miles better than anything on television so go, enjoy… Inchbald was a major figure in English theatre in her day and times have changed but there is still life in the play even if not quite the life it had two hundred years ago.’ ★★★★ Reviewsgate
‘The manner in which some people are ill-treated in the show demonstrates how some things haven’t changed, centuries later. It was easy to remain absorbed in proceedings, and this production is, in the end, a couple of hours of escapism from the stresses and strains of modern life. Very much an ensemble piece of theatre’ ★★★★ London Theatre 1
‘Digby Jones stands out as Mr Anhalt, passionately in love but suppressing it and trying to help others as a decent clergyman would. And Emma Riches gets exactly the right tone and body language for an early eighteenth century young woman who knows her own mind. I’m very glad to have seen Lovers’ Vows, at last. Next time I reread Mansfield Park I shall see it in a whole new light.‘ London Pub Theatres
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production photos
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rehearsal photos
SUPPORT HISTORIA THEATRE
Would you like to support us for the current performance or future projects?
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Donations via bank transfer (from the UK only, please)? Email Kate at info@historiatheatre.org for details. - Do NOT use the yahoo email address for donations.
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short synopsis
Frederick, on leave from military service, finds his mother Agatha destitute on the streets and close to death. To secure her survival he draws his sword on a wealthy Baron but is quickly captured and imprisoned. The penalty for his actions is death.
Baron Wildenhaim has further troubles of his own. His daughter Amelia refuses his choice in marriage, and pursues instead her tutor Anhalt.
Will Amelia get her way? Will Frederick escape his fate? Come and see the play to find out!
Did you know? LOVERS VOWS is actually an adaption of a play by Kotzebue 20 years earlier.
Here is the link: https://kotzebue.hypotheses.org/6710
performances
We are playing from January 21st until February 1st at THE BROCKLEY JACK THEATRE ( https://brockleyjack.co.uk/ )
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evening performances - Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm
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two Saturday matinees at 3pm
The Brockley Jack Theatre is a super little theatre and has an impressive list of awards including:
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AWARD (KATE BANNISTER) OFF WEST END AWARDS 2024
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Winner of London Pub Theatre of the Year 2023
It would be lovely to see you there. The best way to book tickets is online https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/brockleyjackstudio/events (no booking charge). If you prefer to book by phone, you can on 0333 666 3366 (but they will charge you a small booking fee of £1.80).
We greatly look forward to seeing you there.
Directed by Kenneth Michaels