Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) Returns to the CAA Theatre July 22 – August 17, 2025
For Immediate Release
Media Contact: John Karastamatis, Sue Toth, Erin Nantais
“F***ing hilarious! I’d watch it again in a heartbeat.” - View the VIBE
PRIDE & PREJUDICE* (*SORT OF)
The Five-Star Comedy Sensation Returns to the CAA Theatre this Summer!
Tickets available March 7
CRITIC’S PICK “Brilliant. Ingenious and great fun for all audiences. Entertaining with added depth, context and nuance. The solid ensemble performs with scene-stealing glee.” - The Globe & Mail
“Outrageously Funny!” - CTV
“I cried laughing too many times to count. A feel-great show with an incredible ensemble of extremely talented women. Not to be missed!” - CP24
“Hilariously fun!” - Sirius XM
“Bawdy fun! Leads with contemporary feminism and class politics, layering in karaoke and broad British farce.” - Toronto Star
“The Irreverent Hit!” - The New York Times
Due to popular demand, PRIDE & PREJUDICE*(*SORT OF) by Isobel McArthur, last season’s sold-out, irreverent and hilarious smash-hit comedy will return to Toronto’s CAA Theatre for a strictly limited engagement, July 22 to August 17, 2025.
Tickets will go on sale at 10AM on Friday March 7, 2025 at www.mirvish.com or by phone at 1.800.461.3333.
This Olivier Award-winning Best Comedy made its North American premiere at the CAA Theatre as part of the 2023/24 Off-Mirvish Season in December 2023. Toronto critics and audiences were immediately smitten, giving the show rave reviews and extending its run twice. It was clear that Toronto couldn’t get enough of PRIDE & PREJUDICE*(*SORT OF).
ABOUT PRIDE & PREJUDICE*(*SORT OF)
PRIDE & PREJUDICE*(*SORT OF) is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s most iconic love story. Men, money and microphones will be fought over in this irreverent but affectionate adaptation where the stakes couldn’t be higher when it comes to romance. This “smart, laugh out loud funny” (Daily Telegraph) show features a string of pop classics including Young Hearts Run Free, Will You Love Me Tomorrow and You’re So Vain.
PRIDE & PREJUDICE*(*SORT OF) is directed by Olivier and Evening Standard Theatre Award Winner Isobel McArthur and Martin Leonard. The full creative team will be announced at a later date.
ABOUT THE CAST
The cast for this new production includes:
- Emma Rose Creaner as Tillie, Charlotte Lucas, Charles Bingley and Miss Bingley. Emma’s previous credits include Peter Pan at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, and Tartuffe at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin;
- Eleanor Kane as Anne, Mary Bennet, Lydia Bennet and Mr Gardiner Her previous work includes Fun Home at the Young Vic, and Hex at the National Theatre;
- Rhianna McGreevy as Flo, Mrs Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy. Rhianna was in The Winter’s Tale atShakespeare’s Globe;
- Naomi Preston Low as Effie and Elizabeth Bennet. Naomi's previous work includes Further Than the Furthest Thing at the Minack Theatre, Cornwall, and The Wind and The Rain at London’s Finborough Theatre;
- and Christine Steel as Clara, Jane Bennet, and Lady Catherine de Burgh. Christine performed in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Scottish National Orchestra.
Also joining the company are Isobel Donkin and Georgia May Firth.
CREATIVE TEAM BIOS
Isobel McArthur (Writer and Director)
Isobel McArthur is an Olivier award winning actor, director and playwright. Her 5-star sensation Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) played to acclaim in London’s West End and is now touring the UK as well as playing in translation in multiple languages world-wide.
As an actor and musician Isobel has performed in most of the UK’s major playhouses in collaboration with Ella Hickson, Mike Bartlett and Anthony Neilson, as well as in her own plays How to Sing it, Daphne Oram’s Wonderful World of Sound and the lauded Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of).
As playwright-director, other recent productions include her touring adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped (National Theatre of Scotland), her original sell-out Fringe First Winner The Grand Old Opera House Hotel (Traverse Theatre) and her adaptation of Thomas Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West (Royal Shakespeare Company).
In addition to the Oliver Award for Best Comedy Play, Isobel has also won the Evening Standard Award for Best Emerging Talent, The Scotsman’s Fringe First Award, The List ‘Hot 100’ Award, The Saltire Society’s 40 Under 40 alongside nominations for the Stage’s ‘Best West End Debut’, and both Whatsonstage’s ‘Best Supporting Actor’ and ‘Best New Play’.
Martin Leonard (Associate Director)
Trained at Birkbeck, MFA Theatre.
As director credits include: Kes (Leeds Playhouse), Shakespeare and Remembrance (Shakespeare’s Globe); Dis/Connect, Rats Nests (Vault Festival); Fitting Room (Southwark Playhouse); Feckless (Rich Mix) and The Visit (Greenwood Theatre). As co-director: Pizzeria dal’Opera (Bush Theatre).
As associate director: The Fair Maid of the West (RSC) The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare’s Globe), Our Turn (Safe Passage - on tour), Persuasion (Theatre 6 – on tour) and Transform: Wanted (Leeds Playhouse).
As assistant director: The Magician’s Elephant (RSC) The Country Wife (Chichester Festival Theatre); Ralegh: The Treason Trial, Boudica, All the Angels (Shakespeare’s Globe); Gabriel (Theatre 6 - on tour); Kes, Great Expectations and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Leeds Playhouse).
David and Hannah Mirvish present the David Pugh & Cunard Production of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE* (*SORT OF) by Isobel McArthur. (Originally co-produced by The Tron Theatre Company, the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, Blood of The Young, Birmingham Rep, Bristol Old Vic, Leeds Playhouse, Northern Stage and Oxford Playhouse). This production originated at the Newcastle Theatre Royal in 2024.