Age guidance 12+
Performance Dates
2 Dec 2026 – 10 Jan 2027
Run time: 2h 30mins
Includes interval
Return to the world of Pride and Prejudice… but from an entirely different perspective. This Christmas see the UK premiere of Miss Bennet at the Park Theatre. Whether you’re an Austen fan or stepping into the world of love and marriage in the 19th century, this is a witty and surprisingly deeply human play about loyalties, traditions and the possibility of becoming exactly who you were never expected to be.
The Bennet family reunite for the festive season in Pemberley. Elizabeth and Jane seem to have found the lives they were always destined for, Mary Bennet remains trapped by the role everyone has written for her: the awkward sister, the afterthought, the woman no one expects to surprise them. That is until Lord Arthur de Bourgh arrives for the festivities, offering Mary the possibility of a wholly different future.
Smart, funny and emotionally incisive, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley gives Jane Austen‘s most overlooked heroine the story she was never allowed to have.
Rewriting the narrative about identity, belonging and quiet courage. This UK premiere of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon‘s play is both a loving continuation of Austen’s world and a fresh, contemporary drama of its own.