JaneFes Austentival 13 - 22 September 2019 City of Bath

from Promenade to Finale... Ten wonderful days of celebrating all things Austen in the beautiful city of Bath www.janeaustenfestivalbath.co.uk Welcome... 3

to what promises to be an exciting and busy 19th annual Festival in Bath. In June 1799 Jackie Austen wrote, ‘…there is to be a grand gala… in Sydney Gardens…’. Our Grand Regency Costumed Promenade will, for the first time, be starting from Herring Sydney Gardens. We will process, accompanied by the magnificent 33rd Regiment of Foot, down Great Pulteney Street, across Pulteney Bridge and super speaker Dr Amy Frost; who delights with around the city centre to Parade Gardens near two talks: ‘The buildings you don’t know in Jane Bath Abbey. Austen’ and, ‘It’s not Rosings: What’s wrong with locations in Austen Adaptations? ‘Austen Undone!’ the Natural Theatre Company’s hilarious theatrical tour, meets outside the There are workshops galore, including creating Assembly Rooms, known in the 18th Century and your own Reticule, soft bonnet or turban and a referred to in , as the ‘Upper whole Day of Dance. Bath Archers are providing Rooms’. This beautiful venue where, in 1801, Jane taster sessions for would-be bowmen and women. danced and ‘…had all my finery much admired…’, Plus, for budding actors, Karen Eterovich will be will host our very popular Country Dance Ball. holding an acting masterclass on bringing literary figures to life. The premier of Being Mr Wickham by Catherine Curzon, is being performed by (BBC Pride & Evening event highlights include: ‘A noisy game Prejudice’s Mr Wickham) Adrian Lukis in the of lottery tickets’ (Regency games evening), original Theatre Royal in Old Orchard Street. ‘The honours of the table’ (dining etiquette), Another premier at this year’s Festival, is an ‘Bad Girls and Bonnets’ with History Wardrobe improvised version of Austen’s epistolary novel and, the exquisite piece of clever theatre, ‘Cheer , in the inimitable and hilarious style from Chawton’. With special supper evenings at of the Natural Theatre company. Both Lady Susan the Jane Austen Centre, and not forgetting the and, their new show ‘Yours, Jane Austen’, with glorious Regency Costumed Masked Ball in the Susannah Harker (Jane Bennet in the BBC 1995 Pump Rooms, this year’s Festival is better than Pride & Prejudice) and her sister Nelly, will be at The ever. Mission Theatre. I look forward to meeting you. The Museum of Bath Architecture, Beckford’s Jackie Herring Tower and No.1 Royal Crescent are the venues for Festival Director

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Friday 13 September Monday 16 September Wednesday 18 September Friday 20 September 12 noon Courtship with Kim Hicks – theatrical 9.15am Your carriage awaits 9.15am Your carriage awaits 8.45am Austen’s Hampshire Haunts 4pm Theatre in Jane Austen’s time – talk – Bath minibus tour – Bath minibus tour – minibus tour 6pm Pre-Festival Get together 10am Crime in the time of Jane Austen 10am The 5 crescents – walking tour 10am Who’s for tea or coffee? – walk – walk Saturday 14 September 10am Create your own soft bonnet/turban 11am Acting Masterclass with Karen Eterovich 9am A very private public breakfast - food 10.30am As danced on TV – workshop – beginners dance workshop 12.30pm Theatre in Jane Austen’s time - talk 11am Grand Regency Costumed 10.30am Morning call – with Festival crew Promenade 11am Buildings you don’t know in Austen 1.15pm The Meryton tour to Laycock and 2pm Pre-Ball dance workshop – Dr Amy Frost 11.30am Festival Fayre – in the Guildhall Devizes – minibus 2pm Reading – Lady Susan 12 noon Pride & Prejudice 1.15pm The Meryton tour to Laycock and 2pm Beginners Archery Taster Session 3.45pm Adapting Austen – Anna Lea (4 shows) - short theatrical Devizes – minibus – Bath Archers 4pm Rummaging through the reticule 1.30pm Austen Undone! 1.30pm As danced on TV 2pm Reading Austen – talk (6 tours) - Theatrical comedy walk – improvers dance workshop – favourite chapters from the novels 7pm An evening of Austen delights 3.45pm What Kitty Did Next 2pm Reading Austen – favourite chapters 2.30pm Lady Susan – Regency Tea Rooms – Carrie Kablean book signing from the novels – matinee improvised performance 7pm Regency Costumed Masked Ball 4pm Rummaging through the reticule 3.30pm Yours very affectionately, Jane 2.30pm Jane Austen and Bath – walking tour Saturday 21 September – talk – narrated dance 5.30pm Pre-Theatre supper 9am A very private public breakfast 4.30pm Absolute beginners pre-ball 7.30pm A noisy game of lottery tickets workshop at the Regency Tea Rooms – food – evening soiree 8pm The Festival Country Dance Ball 8pm Lady Susan – improvised performance 10am A novel experience – walking tour Tuesday 17 September Sunday 15 September 9.15pm Ghost walk of Bath 11am What matters in Jane Austen? 9.15am Your carriage awaits – Laugh at Bath Tours – Prof John Mullan 10am A very private public breakfast – Bath minibus tour – food Thursday 19 September 3pm Yours, Jane Austen 10am Dubious wealth, questionable 10.30am Tour of Beckford’s Tower – Harker Productions freedoms – walk 8.45am Austen’s Hampshire Haunts with Dr Amy Frost – minibus tour 5.15pm Miss Morland’s guide to Bath – walk 10am Create your own reticule – workshop 11am Jane Austen and Bath – walking tour 8.45am Day trip to Clifton and Blaise Castle 8pm Cheer from Chawton 1.30pm Austen Undone! 10.30am Be more Jane – Karen Eterovich 10am Create your own reticule – workshop (5 tours) - Theatrical comedy walk – Sophie Andrews book signing Sunday 22 September 10am Austen’s Bath v Fanny Burney’s City 2pm Georgian ice cream making 12.15pm ‘A tendency to some particular evil’ 10.30am It’s not Rosings! – Dr Amy Frost – with Jane Walton – talk Lynette White – walk 11am Jane Austen her home and her 10.30am As Danced by Royalty in 1819 2.30pm Jane Austen and the pleasure garden 1.15pm The Meryton tour to Laycock and friends – walk – walk Devizes – minibus – dance workshop 12noon Mini-promenade from The Circus 4pm Rummaging through the reticule 2pm Reading Austen 12noon Murder at – talk – favourite chapters from the novels – Moonstone Theatre Co 6pm Being Mr Wickham 2pm ‘To be fond of dancing…’ 12.45pm Create your own soft bonnet/turban – Theatrical Premier – workshop – Charlotte Cumper Tickets from:tickets 2pm Reading Austen – Lady Susan Bath Box Office 4pm Kitchens and cooking in Austen’s Bath Box Office, Bath Visitor Information England – talk and tour 3.30pm Layers of Jane Austen – talk Centre, Bridgwater House, Telephone +44(0)1225 463362 2 Terrace Walk, Bath BA1 1LN Email: [email protected] 5.30pm Pre-Theatre supper at the Regency 5.30pm Beastly Bath Tea Rooms – walk Laugh at Bath Tours Box office online booking Opening times: 9.30am to 5.30pm www.bathboxoffice.org.uk 8pm Honours of the table 7.30pm Bad girls and bonnets Sunday – Closed – Mr Adams the Butler – History Wardrobe 6 Open every day! Friday 13 September 7

Courtship with Kim Hicks – 12noon (duration 1 hour) This internationally acclaimed one woman show includes delightful renditions of well- known and less familiar passages from Austen’s novels. Enjoy the beautifully drawn characters of, amongst others, Miss Bates (), Mr Collins and (). Kim’s lifelong love of Austen’s words is affectionately rediscovered FASHION in each performance. Tickets: £10 from Theatre Royal Box Office, theatreroyal.org.uk The Jane Austen Centre - Venue: Theatre Royal, Saw Close BA1 1ET 9.45am - 5.30pm (Last entry to Exhibition 4.20pm) Draw back the curtain on theatre in Regency Tea Rooms – 11am to 5pm STATIONERY A warm and friendly welcome is waiting for Austen’s time – talk – 4pm Pre-Festival Get Together – 6pm (Last orders 4.30pm) SINGLE COLOURyou at the Jane Austen Centre. From the polite (duration 1 hour) (duration 1½ hours) bow and greeting on the doorstep to the Situated on the 2nd Floor of the Jane Austen Join Jane Tapley, Special Events Organiser at An ideal opportunity to meet up with old costumed Austen characters inside, nothing Centre is the very popular Regency Tea the Theatre Royal, for an illustrated talk on the friends or make some new ones, particularly is too much trouble. Do visit the permanent Rooms, with the most delicious cakes and of theatre in Georgian Times and its influence on if this is your first festival. This informal Exhibition and sample Regency recipe course excellent afternoon tea – ‘Tea with Mr Jane Austen’s novels. The talk will take place in gathering includes nibbles and a glass of wine biscuits, try on Regency costumes, learn the Darcy’. Rest your reticule, meet up with other LITERATUREBath’s Georgian theatre built in 1805. and is held at the Church where Jane Austen’s language of the fan, write with a quill pen and Festival enthusiasts and enjoy the Regency parents married and her father is buried. see our world famous life-sized Jane Austen atmosphere whilst savouring a pot of real Tickets: £10 from Theatre Royal Box Office, waxwork. During the Festival, Promenaders leaf tea – Assam or Jane Austen blends are theatreroyal.org.uk Tickets: £14 with their wristband ticket, get 10% discount particularly good or for a more delicate flavour Venue: Meet in Foyer of Theatre Royal, Saw Venue: Café, St Swithin’s Church, 37 The off entry to the Jane Austen Centre. why not try Earl Grey? Close BA1 1ET Paragon BA1 5LY

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A very private public breakfast – 9am Austen Undone! – Theatrical Comedy Absolute Beginners pre-Country (duration 1½ hours) Walk - 1.30pm, 2pm, 2.30pm, 3pm, Dance Workshop – 4.30pm Sample the delights of an 18th Century public 3.30pm and 4pm (1 hour each) (duration 1 hour) breakfast just as Jane Austen did in Sydney Back by popular demand! The award-winning This workshop is for those who have little Gardens. Bread rolls, toasted fruit bread, cake, Natural Theatre Company return to the or no Regency dance experience who tea (Jane Austen blend) or coffee – all in the streets of Bath with their highly entertaining have tickets for the Ball in the evening. The private dining room of a typical Regency Bath promenade, wittily exploring the literary life, workshop will explain the basics of how sets house. Breakfast is accompanied with a talk by creative ideas and adventures of Jane Austen. work, progression, the patterns used, steps Jane Tapley. Austen’s apocryphal Undone is her lost first The Festival Fayre – 11.30am to 3.30pm novel (well, it might be!). Containing original and terminology. Tickets: £12 In the magnificent C18th Banqueting attempts of many of her celebrated characters Tickets: £10 Venue: Kinwarton, 3 Upper Camden Place, Room, stalls include: hats, fans, gloves, and ideas, this is a fabulous melange of Austen (available to Country Dance ticket holders) (part of) Camden Rd, BA1 5HX (20 mins walk) dresses, hair pieces, jewellery, reticules, favourites – with a hilarious twist. Experience Venue: The Banqueting Room, The Guildhall, the novel first hand as it comes to life in the masks, haberdashery, plus fortunes told and High Street, BA1 5AW passages and parades of Austen’s Bath with Silhouettes cut. The Festival pop-up café will duels, romance and scandal guaranteed! provide tea, coffee and delicious homemade cakes. Tickets: £16.50 Tickets: £3 each on the door Meet: Outside the Assembly Rooms, (Free to Promenade ticket holders) Bennett Street, BA1 2QH Venue: The Guildhall, High Street, BA1 5AW What Kitty Did Next – meet author Carrie Kablean – 3.45pm (duration 45 mins) Grand Regency Costumed Living in the shadow of her sisters, no-one Promenade – Departs 11am expects Kitty Bennet to amount to anything. To take part in this record-breaking event – Carrie Kablean discusses her novel and writing buy your ticket, put on your costume and join career from London to Sydney via Papua New 500+ people dressed in Regency style, for this Guinea; 20 years with newspaper Bougainville world famous, spectacular official opening to and a theatre critic for the Sunday Telegraph. the Festival. Accompanied by His Majesty’s Tickets: Free 33rd Regiment of Foot (see website for details Venue: Brunswick Room, Guildhall, The Festival Country Dance Ball – of their camp) and led by our own town crier, High Street, Bath BA1 5AW stroll through this beautiful city to Parade 8pm (duration 3 hours) Gardens near Bath Abbey. An informal and fun evening being held in Tickets: £14 per adult (under 16 free with a Pride & Prejudice at the Fayre – Rummaging through the Reticule – the glorious Ballroom in the ‘Upper Rooms’ as participating adult in costume) Performances at 12noon, 1pm, 2pm 4pm (duration 1½ hours) they were known when Jane Austen danced Tickets in the form of a wristband available online and 3pm What did Jane Austen and her characters keep here in May 1801. The caller will be the very experienced Liz Bartlett of the Jane Austen via www.janeaustenfestivalbath.co.uk – Some Set aside downstairs from the busy Fayre in their reticules? All will be revealed when the contents of this 18th Century handbag Dancers, accompanied by the superb Fortuna available to buy on the day from the meet point. are four 20 minute performances of this are spilt in the privacy of a Regency drawing Trio. For those without Regency dance (£1 donation from each ticket to RUH Cancer very funny adaptation of Pride & Prejudice, Care Campaign). 10% discount off entry to the room. Jane Tapley’s talk is followed by experience there is a private workshop in the the condensed version by Aardvark Theatre Jane Austen Centre during the 2019 Festival for refreshments, a traditional cream tea – scones, afternoon. Dress code is smart, evening or Company. Extremely popular and great fun! Promenaders showing their wristband. jam and cream and, of course, tea. Regency costume. Finger buffet included. Tickets: £3 each on the door Meet: Sydney Gardens, Great Pulteney Tickets: £12 Tickets: £57 Venue: The Brunswick Room, The Guildhall, Street, BA2 4DB (from 10.15am) Venue: Kinwarton, 3 Upper Camden Place Venue: The Ballroom, Assembly Rooms, High Street, Bath BA1 5AW No tickets required to watch. (part of) Camden Rd, BA1 5HX (20 mins walk) Bennett Street, BA1 2QH 10 Sunday 15 September Sunday 15 September 11

A very private public breakfast – Rummaging through the Reticule – 10am (duration 1½ hours) 4pm Sample the delights of an 18th Century public For details see Saturday 14 September breakfast just as Jane Austen did in Sydney Gardens. Bread rolls, toasted fruit bread, cake, tea (Jane Austen blend) or coffee – all in the private dining room of a typical Regency Bath house. Breakfast is accompanied with a talk by Jane Tapley. Tickets: £12 Venue: Kinwarton, 3 Upper Camden Place, (part of) Camden Rd, BA1 5HX (20 mins walk)

Tour of Beckford’s Tower – 10.30am (duration 1 ½ hours) Join Dr Amy Frost on a special tour of Beckford’s Tower revealing the connections Georgian Ice Cream – demonstration between Jane Austen and one of Bath’s most romantic characters, the eccentric collector by Jane Walton – 2pm William Beckford. The tower is an extraordinary (duration 1 hour) building with an amazing collection ‘…so I Learn about the history of making ice cream, am growing rich and mean to build towers…’ during this Regency Ice Cream making (Beckford). demonstration where the science behind the Tickets £8 magic will be explained. With period ice cream moulds to view and handle, taste what ice Venue: Beckford’s Tower, Lansdown Road, cream was like in the Regency Era. Being Mr Wickham BA1 9BH (venue out of city centre) Tickets: £15 Premier production – 6pm Venue: The Masonic Hall, Old Orchard Street, (duration 90 minutes) BA1 1JU Written off as a rake and reviled as a rogue, join George Wickham on the eve of his sixtieth Jane Austen and Bath – walking tour birthday to discover his version of some Jane Austen and the pleasure 11am (duration 2 hours) very famous literary events. From childhood garden – walk – 2.30pm games at Pemberley to a run-in with Lord ‘Bath is a charming place, with a variety (duration 2 hours) Byron via marriage, Lydia, and just a little bit of amusements, who could ever be tired of matchmaking for Elizabeth Bennet and of Bath?’ So said Jane Austen’s character ‘Jane Austen never liked Bath’. Guide Dr Moira Mr Darcy, Mr Wickham is ready to set the Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey, Rudolf seeks to bring to life certain aspects of record straight. This brand-new production by which along with her novel is set in the city Jane enjoyed very much indeed: her Austen Undone! – Theatrical Comedy Catherine Curzon sees Adrian Lukis return to Bath. Through family links and having visited home at 4 Sydney Place, the wonders and his celebrated role as George Wickham, Jane and lived in the city, Austen knew Bath very Walk (duration 1 hour) marvels of Sydney Gardens – sham castle, Austen’s most quintessential trouble-maker. well indeed. Come and find out more on this 1.30pm, 2pm, 2.30pm, 3pm and 3.30pm labyrinth, grotto, canal; the delightfully walking tour. situated Spring Gardens and the pretty Followed by Q&A session with author and For details see Saturday 14 September riverside location of Harrison’s Walks. actor. Tickets: £10 Tickets: £16.50 Tickets: £10 Tickets: £23 Meet: Outside the main door of Bath Abbey, Abbey Churchyard, BA1 1LY Meet: Outside Assembly Rooms, Meet: By Victorian Post Box, 51 Great Pulteney Venue: The Masonic Hall, Old Orchard Street, Bennett Street, BA1 2QH Street, BA2 4DP BA1 1JU 12 Monday 16 September Monday 16 September 13

Meryton tour to Lacock and Devizes Reading Austen – Favourite Chapters Meet 1.15 pm (duration 4 hours) from the novels – Day One – 2-3pm Lacock was ‘Meryton’ in Pride & Prejudice and The public reading of favourite chapters where Lydia and Kitty shopped for bonnets and from Pride & Prejudice and Sense & Sensibility hoped for attention from officers! In 1799 Austen as voted for by supporters and friends of the wrote: ‘At Devizes we had a good dinner… festival. Takes place upstairs in Waterstones. asparagus and a lobster… some cheesecakes, Entrance is free so delightful… as to endear the town to us for a long time’. Guided minibus tour.. Venue: Waterstones, Milsom Street, BA1 1DA Tickets: £45 (wheelchair accessible) Meet at 1.15pm - Outside the Jane Austen Centre, 40 Gay Street, BA1 2NT Day of Dance part 3 Yours very affectionately, Jane – Day of Dance part 1 narrated performance – 3.30pm As danced on TV – Beginners dance (duration 1½ hours) workshop – 10.30am (duration 1½ hours) To end the Day of Dance, sit back and enjoy Your carriage awaits – Bath minibus the Jane Austen Dancers dancing their way tour – Meet 9.15am (duration 3hours) Join callers from The Jane Austen Dancers for a fun session covering a selection of through Jane Austen’s publishing years, 1811- A series of short stops, following in Jane’s simpler dances used in TV productions of 1817. Using her personal letters and news of footsteps on her rambles and escapes to Austen novels. Aimed at those with little or the day as inspiration for narration, drama village churches, parks and viewpoints. no experience, this is a mix of dances which, and dance. With quotes from her letters and Including ‘that noble hill’ Beechen Cliff, where according to Mr Darcy, “every savage can novels, we also hear contemporary headline Mr Tilney gave a ‘lecture on the picturesque’. dance”! Also, suited to the more experienced news, gossip from the greater world, and see On the way, see places she lived, visited and dancer wanting to start our Day of Dance a themed selection of dances for each year. wrote about in her Bath novels, Northanger at a slower pace. A good understanding of Option to join in one or two simple dances. Day of Dance part 2 Abbey and Persuasion. English is required. Flat shoes and a drink recommended. Costume welcome but not As Danced on TV – Improvers Dance Tickets: £18 Tickets: £35 essential. Workshop – 1.30pm Venue: The Assembly Rooms, Bennett Street, Meet: 9.15am Outside the Jane Austen Centre, Tickets: £16 (duration 1½ hours) BA1 2QH 40 Gay Street, BA1 2NT Venue: The Assembly Rooms, Bennett Street, Join callers from The Jane Austen Dancers BA1 2QH for a delightful session covering a selection ‘A noisy game of lottery tickets’ – Crime in the time of Jane Austen of harder dances from TV productions of – walking tour – Departs 10am Austen novels. For those with some country Regency games evening – 7.30pm The buildings you don’t know in dance experience, including those who have (duration 2½ hours) (duration 2 hours) attended the morning workshop; not suitable Jane Austen – Dr Amy Frost – 11am Jane Austen was known to be particularly Jane had first-hand experience of the way the for complete beginners. A mix of faster and (duration 1 hour) adept at both cup and ball, and spillikins. Lydia law dealt with those accused of committing harder dances, as we try to keep pace with the a crime when her aunt Jane Leigh Perrot From the named but never visited country Meryton assembly, where they danced six sets Bennet was very fond of lottery tickets whilst was arrested and accused of shoplifting. estates, to the places that the mass public rarely and the Boulanger! A good understanding whist, hazard and other dice games were also Punishments for criminal activity were harsh take a trip to such as , join Dr Amy of English is required. Flat shoes and a drink Austen family favourites. Join in the fun and and often a ‘street spectacle’. With Bath Parade Frost exploring the less well-known buildings recommended. Costume welcome but not try your hand at these and other amusements. Guides hear Jane’s view on the subject. and places in the novels of Jane Austen. essential. Ticket includes buffet supper. Tickets: £12 Tickets: £10 Tickets: £16 Tickets: £37 Venue: Museum of Bath Architecture, Meet: Outside main doors of Bath Abbey, Venue: The Assembly Rooms, Bennett Street, Venue: Bath Function Rooms, Green Park The Vineyards, Paragon, BA1 5NA Abbey Churchyard, BA1 1LY BA1 2QH Station, Bath BA1 1JB 14 Tuesday 17 September Tuesday 17 September 15

Your carriage awaits – Bath minibus Be More Jane – meet writer Sophie ‘To be fond of dancing...’ – with Pre-theatre supper at the Jane tour - Meet: 9.15am Andrews – 10.30 to 11am Charlotte Cumper – 2pm Austen Centre – 5.30pm For details see Monday 16 September Sophie Andrews (of Laughing with Lizzie) talks (duration 1 hour) (duration 2 hours max) about the inspiration, writing and production All of Austen’s characters attend a dance at Tea lovers and literature lovers unite for this of her new illustrated book. During an some point. But what did that entail? Did unique and decadent experience. Combining Dubious Wealth, Questionable informal Q&A session Sophie will sign copies they have to memorise every dance? How did the rich history of Jane Austen’s novels and Freedoms – walk– Departs 10am of the book, bring your own or buy on the day. the Netherfield Ball differ from the Meryton high tea treats. Join us by revelling in the Assembly, or the ball at the Crown Inn? Why sumptuous delights of The Regency Tea (duration 2 hours) FREE couldn’t Catherine Morland just refuse to Rooms Supper; a delightful selection of sweet Was Austen oblivious to the fight against and savoury treats served in the style of a Venue: Upstairs in the café, The Mission dance with John Thorpe? Join Charlotte slavery? Did she have an opinion on the traditional Afternoon Tea. Theatre, 32 Corn Street BA1 1UF Cumper of the Jane Austen Dancers to find role of women in society? With Bath Parade out what it meant to be fond of dancing. Tickets: £25 online from Guides see beyond the romanticism to a more janeausten.co.uk/shop worldly Jane. Tickets: £8 Venue: The Regency Tea Rooms, Jane Austen ‘A tendency to some particular evil’ Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street Tickets: £10 Centre, 40 Gay Street, BA1 2NT BA1 1UF Meet: Outside main doors of Bath Abbey, – Lynette White – 12.15pm Abbey Churchyard, BA1 1LY (duration 1 hour) From Mr Wickham to Mrs Norris, Austen wrote some of the best, most subtle and most hateful characters of English Literature. What makes a Jane Austen villain and why do we love to hate them? Lynette explores what it means to be a villain in Jane Austen and C18th England. Tickets: £8 Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street BA1 1UF

Meryton minibus tour to Lacock and ‘The honours of the table’ with Mr Devizes – Meet: 1.15pm Adams the butler – 8pm For details see Monday 16 September Kitchens and Cooking in Jane (duration 1½ hours) with interval Austen’s England – talk – 4pm Mr Adams, butler in a grand Regency (duration 1½ hours) house, has been ‘in service’ for many years. Create your own reticule – workshop Paying particular attention to the etiquette Reading Austen – Favourite Chapters Food was at the very heart of society in Jane – 10am (duration 2 hours) Austen’s England. Through this talk and tour, associated with sitting to table and the ‘art’ Under supervision and using vintage sewing from the novels - Day Two – 2-3pm delve into how the Georgians prepared and of dining he explains and demonstrates the complex process of setting the table for machines, create a reticule to match your The public reading of favourite chapters from cooked their food – see the leaps forward dinner. The presentation is set in the year 1812 Emma and Mansfield Park as voted for by Festival outfit. Materials, embellishments and in the technology and gadgets that were and supported by a very considerable range expert guidance from Bath Theatrical Costume supporters and friends of the festival. Takes available and explore how Jane Austen may of silver, porcelain and domestic items. Hire are provided at this fun workshop. place upstairs in Waterstones. have prepared a meal for her family. Tickets: £12 Tickets: £65 FREE Tickets: £15 Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street Venue: Servants Hall, No.1 Royal Crescent Venue: Backstage, The Mission Theatre, 32 Venue: Waterstones, Milsom Street, BA1 1DA BA1 1UF Corn Street, Bath BA1 1UF (wheelchair accessible) Museum, BA1 2LR 16 Wednesday 18 September Wednesday 18 September 17

Your carriage awaits – Bath minibus Beginners Archery taster session Jane Austen and Bath – walking tour tour – Meet: 9.15am with Bath Archers – 2pm – Departs 2.30pm (duration 2 hours) (duration 2 hours) For details see Monday 16 September ‘Bath is a charming place, with a variety Archery a favourite pastime with the upper of amusements, who could ever be tired classes in Jane Austen’s lifetime, was very of Bath?’ So said Jane Austen’s character The 5 Crescents – walking tour – similar to today’s popular hobby and sport. Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey Bath Archers are one of the oldest archery which along with her novel Persuasion is set in Departs 10am (duration 2½ hours) clubs in Britain. Come and learn how to shoot Bath. Through family links and having visited We all know the Royal Crescent but what and about the history of archery, at their range and lived in the city, Austen knew Bath very about the others? With Bath Parade Guides at Batheaston. (Location is out of city centre well indeed. Come and find out more on this discover more of the Crescents of Bath. and not shown on our map – directions will walking tour. Includes a stop at the Lansdowne Grove Hotel be sent with booking confirmation) Minimum for coffee (extra charge) then continues via St age 12 years. Tickets: £10 Swithin’s Church back to the City centre. Cost £20 each (£17.50 for 3 or more booking Meet: Outside the main door of Bath Abbey, Tickets: £10 together). Limited spaces. NO COSTUME. Abbey Churchyard BA1 1LY Meet: Outside No.1 Royal Crescent Museum, To book email: [email protected] Lady Susan – improvised Royal Crescent, BA1 2LR performance by the Natural Theatre Company – 8pm (duration 1½ hours) with interval Create your own soft bonnet or Will Lady Susan Vernon achieve her wicked turban – workshop – 10am ends? Why is Frederica so against marriage (duration 2 hours) with Sir James Martin? Who is the ‘most Under supervision using vintage sewing accomplished Coquette in England’ and machines, create your own vintage style what on earth does it mean? This improvised bonnet or turban to match your Festival theatrical performance based on Austen’s outfit. Materials, embellishments and expert epistolary novel will attempt to solve, no guidance from Bath Theatrical Costume Hire doubt with hilarious results, these and many are provided at this fun workshop. of life’s conundrums. Tickets: £85 Tickets: £16 Venue: Backstage, The Mission Theatre, 32 Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, Corn Street, Bath BA1 1UF Bath BA1 1UF Reading Austen – Favourite Chapters Pre-theatre supper at the from the novels - Day Three – 2-3pm Jane Austen Centre – 5.30pm Morning call – 10.30 to 11.30am The public reading of favourite chapters from (duration 2 hours max) Ghost walk of Bath – Laugh at Bath Over coffee and cake (purchasable from the Northanger Abbey and Persuasion as voted for Tea lovers and literature lovers unite for this tours – Departs 9.15pm café) why not come and chat with some of the by supporters and friends of the festival. Takes unique and decadent experience. Combining (duration 1½ hours) Festival stewards and the Festival organisers place upstairs in Waterstones. the rich history of Jane Austen’s novels and Take a leisurely night time stroll through at this informal gathering. FREE high tea treats. Join us by revelling in the the haunted streets of Bath - listen to eerie sumptuous delights of The Regency Tea FREE Venue: Waterstones, Milsom Street, BA1 1DA stories of murder, mystery, mayhem and Rooms Supper; a delightful selection of sweet Venue: Upstairs in the café, The Mission (wheelchair accessible) ghosts. Including tales of execution areas, and savoury treats served in the style of a Theatre, 32 Corn Street BA1 1UF haunted pubs, the old hospital, theatre and, traditional Afternoon Tea. of course, the duelling ground where so many Lady Susan – improvised Tickets: £25 online from met a grisly fate. A scary and fun evening out! Meryton minibus tour to Lacock and performance matinee – 2.30pm janeausten.co.uk/shop Tickets: £10 Devizes - Meet 1.15pm (duration 1½ hours) Venue: The Regency Tea Rooms, Jane Austen Meet: Outside main doors of Bath Abbey, For details see Monday 16 September For details see evening performance Centre, 40 Gay Street, BA1 2NT Abbey Churchyard, BA1 1LY 18 Thursday 19 September Thursday 19 September 19

Austen’s Hampshire Haunts – Austen’s Bath – v – Fanny Burney’s Murder at Mansfield Park Layers of Jane Austen! minibus tour – Meet: 8.45am ‘City of Palaces’ – walk A Moonstone Murder Mystery with Jenny Colquhoun (and Freddie) (return approx 6pm) Departs 10am (duration 2 hours) 12noon (duration 3 hours) 3.30pm (duration 1 hour) Guided tour to Steventon, visiting the site With Fanny Burney’s help, Dr Moira Rudolf Sir Thomas Bertram of Mansfield Park is Petticoats, stays, drawers, corsets, pantaloons, of Jane’s birthplace and the Church where will dispel the myths surrounding Austen’s shocked to discover that a murder has been chemise, shifts and let’s not forget the her father was Rector. Chawton, visiting the feelings towards Bath. Both ladies had committed at his home. Whilst apparently bustle!!!! Come and participate in a light cottage (entrance £9) where she worked pronounced views on the city and both had without motive, Mrs Norris, Edmund Bertram hearted whimsical discussion about what on her novels. Winchester, to see the house similar interests, which will be discussed whilst and even Fanny Price are the main suspects, might or might not have been worn under where she died and her final resting place in focussing on some well-known architectural as is Sir Bertram himself. The investigation ladies’ dresses, even Jane’s, in the early part of the Cathedral (entrance £8.50). gems. proceeds at a luncheon party in the 1805 the C19th. Tickets: £65 Rooms at the Theatre Royal in Bath. Tickets: £10 Tickets: £8 Meet: Outside the Jane Austen Centre, Tickets: £38 from Theatre Royal Box Office, Meet: Outside main doors of Bath Abbey, Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, 40 Gay Street, BA1 2NT www.theatreroyal.org.uk Abbey Churchyard, BA1 1LY Bath BA1 1UF Venue: 1805 Rooms, Theatre Royal, Saw Close, Day trip to Clifton and Blaise Castle BA1 1ET Beastly Bath – walk – 5.30pm Meet: 8.45am (return 5.30pm) (duration 1½ hours) ‘Blaise Castle! The finest place in England, Create your own worth going 50 miles …to see.’ (John Thorpe, soft bonnet A light hearted, unconventional walk through Northanger Abbey). This tour with Bath the city’s history. Including descriptions of or turban some of the more sordid and disagreeable Parade Guides, includes historic Bristol: the – workshop – magical Royal York Crescent, famous Clifton aspects of C18th life plus original Georgian Suspension Bridge and lovely 18th Century 12.45pm remedies are demonstrated on this Clifton suburb where Jane stayed in 1806. (duration 2 hours) mischievous stroll! See all the main sights Followed by Blaise Castle Estate and Blaise Under supervision and including Pump Room, Abbey, Theatre Royal, Castle itself. using vintage sewing Queen Square, Circus and Royal Crescent. Tickets: £65 machines, create your Tickets: £10 Meet: Outside the Jane Austen Centre, own vintage style bonnet or turban to match Meet: Outside the main door of Bath Abbey, 40 Gay Street, BA1 2NT your Festival outfit. Materials, embellishments Abbey Churchyard, BA1 1LT and expert guidance from Bath Theatrical Costume Hire are provided at this fun Create your own ‘As Danced by Royalty in 1819’ workshop. Bad girls and bonnets reticule – workshop Regency Dance Workshop – Tickets: £85 History Wardrobe – 7.30pm 10.30am (duration 2 hours) 10am Venue: Backstage, The Mission Theatre, 32 (duration 1½ hours) with interval (duration 2 hours) Step back 200 years for a sociable and fun Corn Street, Bath BA1 1UF Jane Austen’s guide to being brazen - A bold, Under supervision and using session of Regency dances, some with Royal brash and beautiful celebration of Austen’s vintage sewing machines, connections. Period venue, live piano music wicked women, and a truly revelatory look at create a reticule to match and short performance of ‘Royal Race for Reading – Lady Susan – 2-3pm clothes and crime in the 18th Century – an era your Festival outfit. Materials, embellishments an Heir’, from The Jane Austen Dancers. No The public reading of Jane Austen’s epistolary when stocking-theft or silk smuggling carried and expert guidance from Bath Theatrical partner necessary, but flat, non-slip shoes and novel Lady Susan takes place over two days, serious consequences. With fabulous original Costume Hire are provided at this fun a good understanding of English essential. upstairs in Waterstones bookshop. Come costume items, criminal history and readings workshop. Please bring plenty to drink. Not for beginners. along and support the readers. from the outrageous Miss Austen herself. Tickets: £65 Tickets: £17 FREE Tickets: £16 Venue: Backstage, The Mission Theatre, 32 Venue: Bath Function Rooms, 1st Floor, Venue: Waterstones, Milsom Street, BA1 1DA Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, Corn Street, Bath BA1 1UF Green Park Station, Bath BA1 1JB (wheelchair accessible) Bath BA1 1UF 20 Friday 20 September Friday 20 September 21

Austen’s Hampshire Haunts – Draw back the curtain on theatre in An evening of Austen delights minibus tour – Meet: 8.45am Austen’s time – talk – 12.30pm Food and entertainment – 7pm For details see Thursday 19th September (for details see Friday 13th September – (duration 2½ hours) note different start time) Partake of a deliciously decadent selection of High Tea Treats, finished off with a Who’s for tea or coffee? traditional Regency pudding in the gorgeous surroundings of the Regency Tea walking tour – Departs 10am Rooms. Complete with bubbles and highly (duration 2 hours) entertaining Austen interpretations, why not escape for a couple of hours to this haven of Times have changed but not the British love of literary fiction. tea and coffee. With Bath Parade Guides find Tickets: out about the social custom of tea and coffee Adapting Austen with Anna Lea £35 online via janeausten.co.uk/shop drinking in company and at home, during the 3.45pm (duration 1 hour) Venue: The Regency Tea Rooms, Jane Austen time of Jane Austen. Writer and Director Anna Lea has adapted Centre, 40 Gay Street BA1 2NT Tickets: £10 Northanger Abbey and Emma into full Meet: Outside the main door of Bath Abbey, cast audio dramas starring Dame Emma Abbey Churchyard BA1 1LY Thompson. What is the process of adapting and directing these dramas? And can they give us a fresh insight into Austen’s novels? Tickets: £8 Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, Bath BA1 1UF

Pre-Masked Ball Dance Workshop 2pm (duration 1½ hours) This practise session, with expert dance coach, Diana Campbell is for those attending Regency Costumed Masked Ball the Masked Ball in the evening. Venue is not 7pm to 11.30pm far from Charlotte Street long term car park. 7pm – Reception beside the Roman Baths Tickets: £12 8pm – Ball commences in the Pump Room Venue: Sports Hall, Percy Community Centre, This unique and popular costumed event is New King Street, BA1 2BN a marvellous opportunity to wear your very Acting Masterclass with Karen best Regency gown or breeches, complete Eterovich – 11am (duration 1½ hours) Reading – Lady Susan – 2-3pm with glittering accessories and a mask in the Venetian style. With its magical drinks Bringing Historical & Literary Figures to Life. For The final public reading of the week and reception beside the Roman Baths, followed by theatrical types and laymen alike, this workshop the second part of Jane Austen’s epistolary masked procession to the Pump Room for the uses period music, art and literature as a means novel Lady Susan. Upstairs in Waterstones Ball. Reception drink and 2 course hot supper to enter into the creation of a character be it bookshop. Come along and support the included in the ticket (special diets can be fictional (Lizzy, Darcy?) or real-life. readers. catered for, just let us know in plenty of time). Tickets: £16 FREE Rummaging through the Reticule – Tickets: £99 Venue: Roman Baths and Pump Rooms, Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, Venue: Waterstones, Milsom Street, BA1 1DA 4pm (wheelchair accessible) Stall Street, BA1 1LZ Bath BA1 1UF For details see Saturday 14 September 22 Saturday 21 September Sunday 22 September 23

A very private public breakfast – 9am Miss Morland’s guide to Bath – walk For details see Saturday 14 September 5.15pm (duration 1 hour) Prepare to be launched into the difficulties A Novel Experience – walking tour and dangers of an hour’s walking tour of Bath. Accompany Miss Morland to some of the most Departs 10am (duration 2 hours) important locations mentioned in Northanger What a tribute, 200 years after her first novel Abbey including where she lived with Mr and was published Austen’s books are still as Mrs Allen, where she first danced with Mr popular. But whose work did Austen read? Tilney and of course where she met Isabella. Let Bath Parade Guides introduce you to The tour ends near Sydney Gardens. It’s not Rosings: What’s wrong with Fanny Burney, Tobias Smollet, Christopher locations in Austen Adaptations? Anstey and others that may have been Jane’s Tickets: £10 10.30am (duration 1 hour) bedtime reading! Meet: Outside the Assembly Rooms, Bennett Street, BA1 2QH Ever thought that the building on the TV Tickets: £10 screen doesn’t quite match the Pemberley or Meet: Outside the main door of Bath Abbey, Mansfield you built in your head? Join Dr Amy Abbey Churchyard BA1 1LY Frost on a tour through the locations and sets of Austen adaptations to discover why Lady Catherine de Burgh really didn’t live in a house Mini-Promenade – meet in the What matters in Jane Austen? like that! centre of The Circus at 12noon with Prof John Mullan – 11am Tickets: £12 Meet for an informal short stroll from The (duration 1½ hours) Venue: Servants Hall, No.1 Royal Crescent Circus, down Gay Street, Milsom Street, Stall What would the Jane Austen Festival be Museum, BA1 2LR Street to Bath Abbey. Regency costume without a visit from John Mullan? Professor of welcome but not essential, suitable for English at University College London he has wheelchairs. taught Austen for over 25 years. An amusing and highly entertaining speaker who, this Weather permitting free event year, will speak about the little things you never notice in Austen that make her work so special and clever. Become a Friend Tickets: £14 of the 2020 Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, Jane Austen Festival Bath BA1 1UF 11 - 20 September 2020 Cheer from Chawton Benefits include: Yours, Jane Austen – Harker Studio a Jane Austen family theatrical – 8pm Jane Austen, her home and her • Exclusive personal newsletters from the Productions – 3pm (duration 2 hours) (duration 1 hour) friends – walk – 11am Festival Director Revealing the life of Austen through her most This is an exquisite piece of very clever theatre (duration 2 hours) • Advance mailing of the Festival programme loved works and the letters she wrote to her written and performed by superb actress Jane lived in four houses during her five years • Priority booking of the Festival programme sister Cassandra. Susannah Harker (Jane Karen Eterovich. Meet novelist Jane Austen at in Bath and stayed in and visited several more. Bennet, BBC’s Pride and Prejudice) and sister her brother’s manor house in this hour-long With Dr Moira Rudolf view many of these Annual subscription £25 Nelly follow Jane and Cassandra’s journey interactive comedy. This hit show returns to locations and her acquaintance through from their youth in the ballrooms of Regency Bath for the 4th time and has been performed her writings, whilst discovering some C18th Further details from our website England, through to their later search for in the USA for more than a dozen years. highlights and what her characters got up to www.janeaustenfestivalbath.co.uk fulfilment and independence. Suitable for ages 8 upwards in them! Tickets: £16 Tickets: £16 Tickets: £10 Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, Venue: The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street, Meet: Outside at the front of Holburne Bath BA1 1UF Bath BA1 1UF Museum, BA2 4DB finish Abbey Churchyard 24 25

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