Georgia Findlay & Andrew Prashad in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey | Photo by Raph Nogal
I finished the novel just in time for this thoroughly agreeable (channeling some Austen myself) adaptation by Tyler J. Seguin, his final production for Guild Festival Theatre as co-artistic director. The facetiously long-winded title, Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (A Most Horrid Mystery), gives you some sense of the tone here. Austen herself was deliberately poking fun at the sensationalistic tropes of Gothic literature, but Seguin and the team have amped it up considerably here. Continue Reading