Northanger Abbey: Moving Parts Theatre

Is it a spine-tingling Gothic tale of dark deeds and hidden secrets? Or a playful, big-hearted Regency romance? With Jane Austen, it’s never quite that simple… and that’s exactly the fun of it.

Following the acclaimed success of last summer’s Vanity Fair, Moving Parts returns with a fresh and inventive take on the classics. This brand-new adaptation written and co-created by Joanna Nevin, Martin South and Simona Hughes is brought to life with an original musical score by Tamara Douglas-Morris and dynamic movement direction by Nevena Stojkov.

At its centre is young Catherine Morland, devoted reader of “horrid” novels, dreamer of secrets and shadows, and hopeful heroine in a world of balls, bonnets and Bath society. As imagination and reality collide, Catherine must decide what kind of story she truly wants to inhabit.

Join us this summer in the Sculpture Garden, as we see how her story unfolds!