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Tag: Jane Austen

Interview with award-winning novelist Okechukwu Nzelu: ‘I wanted people to empathise with those whose experience is different’

7th April 202025th May 2020  Victoria Smith

Victoria Smith interviews award-winning writer and Desmond Elliott Prize nominee, Okechukwu Nzelu, and discusses his debut novel, Nnenna Maloney, literary inspirations like Bernadine Evaristo, balancing writing with teaching and ensuring that underrepresented voices are heard in literature.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Bernadine Evaristo, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chinua Achebe, Derek Owusu, Desmond Elliott Prize, Dialogue Books, Dialogue Books Lounge, Dodie Smith, Jane Austen, Nnenna Maloney, Okechukwu Nzelu, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space, Sharmaine Lovegrove, The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney, Zadie Smith

Austentatious at the Fortune Theatre

25th November 201927th November 2019  Jo Hemmings

The wonderfully witty improv comedy troupe returns to the Fortune Theatre, but how will Austentatious be received by our Austen super-fan and theatre critic, Jo Hemmings?

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Austentatious, Fortune Theatre, Jane Austen, Jo Baker, Longbourn, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith

Jane Austen’s The Watsons at the Menier Chocolate Factory

6th November 20196th November 2019  Jo Hemmings

Laura Wade’s witty theatrical rewrite of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel, The Watsons, comments on female authorship, agency and joyfully sends up actors, writers and pseudo-intellectualism.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Emma, Grace Molony, Jane Austen, Joe Bannister, Laura Wade, Laurence Ubong Williams, Louise Ford, Meier Chocolate Factory, Pride and Prejudice, Samuel West, The Watsons
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    By Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
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    By Lisa Goodrum
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    By Rachel Ashenden
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