Following a sold-out season in 2025, QTC’s Matilda Award-winning production of Pride & Prejudice is back for one more turn. Adapted from Jane Austen’s beloved novel by Wendy Mocke and Lewis Treston, and directed by Bridget Boyle and Daniel Evans, the story swirls around the will-they won’t-they romance of the smart, spirited Elizabeth Bennet and the decidedly eligible but aloof Mr Darcy. “While Mocke and Treston hit all the novel’s plot points and classic lines . . . they’ve written plenty of their own fresh rom-com zingers, adding modern sass to the novel’s story of a woman’s search for love and respect within the harsh economics of the Regency marriage market,” said The Brisbane Times in 2025. Maddison Burridge and Andrew Hearle reprise the central roles.

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Queensland Theatre Company’s smash-hit reimagining of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice is back! After dazzling audiences in 2025, this sumptuous theatrical ode to the mother of romantic comedies sashays onto the Playhouse stage for one more glorious “turn about the room”.

Smart, witty and fearless, Elizabeth Bennet is an independent young woman who dearly loves a laugh and is not afraid to poke fun where fun is most definitely warranted. At odds with her husband-hunting sisters and dithery mother, Elizabeth longs for the power to determine her own marital fate.

Amidst the glittering swirl of balls, gossip and the hypocrisy of Regency England, Elizabeth encounters the arrogant, aloof, but infuriatingly eligible Mr Darcy. The two are more alike than they care to admit and their tempestuous journey from “tolerable” to love triumphant is one of literature’s most iconic romances.