AUSTEN FOUND
Addicted to Darcy? Lost all Sense and Sensibility? Bonkers for Big Balls? Well put down your cross-stitching and join Penny Ashton, Lori Dungey and Greg Ward, as they swoon, romp, and pianoforte their way through an entirely improvised Austenian Musical. Charming suitors, meddlesome mothers, tight breeches and surprisingly well-educated girls will all paint a vivid picture in song, dance and passionate handholding. All dialogue, song music and lyrics are made up on the spot to delight the audience with some Regency Rompings.
TOURING AUCKLANDSHIRE IN DECEMBER 2025 TO CELEBRATE JANE AUSTEN’S 250TH BIRTHDAY!
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Complete Sell-out Comedy Festival (2007 and 2021) and Adelaide Fringe (2010)
“Penny Ashton and Lori Dungey – two excellent improvisers who know what they’re doing.” – Dominion Post 2021
“Austen Found provides an excellently executed, hilarious and side-splitting bit of nonsense to create tears of joy, all much-needed. Pure entertainment has real worth.” – Otago Daily Times 2023
“Austen Found is a superbly well-developed, outstanding triumph!” – Theatreview 2023
“What I did not prepare myself for was just how outstanding the production would be. In all honesty I am still in some disbelief that the several players on stage improvised such brilliance on the spot.” – NZ Entertainment Blog
Austen Found has been performed all over NZ, and to the Adelaide Fringe, often selling out wherever it goes. It is a supremely funny silly bit of nonsense with proto feminism slyly incorporated much as with our dear Jane Austen herself. It has received rave reviews and enthusiastic responses from giggling punters and is a joy to perform for Ms Ashton, Ms Dungey and their pianoforte maestros. It has a touring party of three.