Promise and Promiscuity: A Musical by Jane Austen

Promise and Promiscuity – A Musical by Jane Austen and Penny Ashton

After ten years of rapturous performances, Penny Ashton's Promise & Promiscuity is celebrating by heading to all its favourite venues. Having recently wowed The Lyttelton Arts Factory with Olive Copperbottom, and the Court theatre with her Sense and Sensibility, Ashton is heading back to her hometown and can't wait to jump about with excitement on the LAF stage.

Follow the fortunes of Miss Elspeth Slowtree as she battles literary snobbery, her mother's nerves and Cousin Horatio's digestions, all armed with a superior wit, excellent ukulele skills and generally being quite bright ... you know ... for a girl. Balls will be attended, crosses will be stitched and manners will be minded, all with not one ankle in sight.

Penny Ashton (Winner of 2018's World Buskers Festival's Iron Chicken and Best Theatre at the Adelaide Fringe) is NZ's own global comedienne having performed over 1000 solo shows all over the world. In 2021, she also made the most of lockdown by launching her own menopause podcast Showy Ovaries.
" ... Go if you dearly love a laugh" Dominion Post
" ... a triumph of delightful satire." Otago Daily Times
“...sparkling.” 4 Stars The Scotsman

Tickets: Full Adult $36.50, Concession $33 (OAP, Students, Comm Services, Equity), $25 for under 25 years.
Running Time 70 mins