December 4, 2024

ActorsNET’s Holiday Play Is Tribute to Jane Austen

LAST OF A TRILOGY: Brittany Fauzer as Georgiana Darcy and Liz Minder as Kitty Bennet in “Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley,” on stage in Morrisville, Pa., December 6-22.

ActorsNET is visiting the famous Pemberley estate for the third time with Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley, the final play in the Pemberley trilogy. Jane Austen’s characters take the Heritage Center stage once again from December 6-22.

Director Erin Leder returns to put a finishing touch on her extensive work with Gunderson and Melcon’s holiday pieces. She has taken on the first of Christmas at Pemberley plays back in 2022 and has since directed Miss Bennet, then The Wickhams in 2023, and now Georgiana and Kitty.

“What I love most about all three plays is how each plot cleverly deviates ever-so-slightly from the expected,” said Leder. “Once rehearsals got underway, we all happily discovered that these plays would have no semblance of just glorified Jane Austen-style fan fiction but instead were beautifully and fully-realized stories about the joy that comes from charting one’s own path in this world.”

“ActorsNET is honored to be the first theater in the Philadelphia area to present this third and final installment of Christmas at Pemberley. And we’re thrilled to bring back some familiar faces from previous productions as well as introduce four new actors to the Pemberley ‘universe’ to create a seamless and delightful experience for our audience,” said Hayley Rubins-Topoleski, one of the show’s producers.

The Heritage Center Theatre is located at 635 North Delmorr Avenue, Morrisville, Pa., near the Calhoun Street Bridge.  Show times are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. There will be an additional 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday, December 14 in addition to the regularly scheduled evening performance. The 8 p.m. performance on Saturday, December 14 is a special “Pay What You Can” night with tickets as low as $7, as part of ActorsNET’s goal to make exceptional, live and local theater accessible to everyone.

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