CELEBRATE JANE AUSTEN’S 250TH BIRTHDAY YEAR WITH PROMISE AND PROMISCUITY AS IT TOURS AUSTRALIA.

“PRIDE AND PREJUDICE GONE WILD IN THE BEST WAY” -- Rip it Up, Adelaide 

Ready to party like it’s 1775? Flushed by twelve years’ successes from Edinburgh to Adelaide to Toronto, comes Kiwi Penny Ashton’s collaboration with Jane Austen (deceased). How will Miss Elspeth battle literary snobbery, cousin Horatio’s digestions and her mother’s nerves, armed only with a blushing countenance, excellent ukulele skills and being quite bright, you know…. for a girl? In this hilarious, one (ridiculously talented) woman show, Penny tackles all of Austen’s characters with song, dance and appalling cross-stitching.

“See Promise and Promiscuity, great fun. Thank me later.” Colin Mochrie

“Go, if you dearly love a laugh.” Wellington Post

“…somewhere Jane is smiling.” Edmonton Sun

“…you’ll be delighted whether or not you know your Bennets from your Dashwoods.” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

“…Razor-sharp wit.” Three Weeks, Edinburgh

“…a sparkling performer..” The Scotsman

WINNER: BEST PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY, AUCKLAND FRINGE / PATRON’S PICK, WINNIPEG FRINGE / BEST THEATRE WEEK THREE, ADELAIDE FRINGE

Penny Ashton is NZ’s own global comedienne having performed over 1000 solo shows all over the world. She has represented New Zealand in Theatresports and Performance Poetry and has performed by invitation at The Glastonbury Festival and Jane Austen Festival in Bath. She has been a regular and original panelist for 20 years on Radio NZ National’s The Panel and is a busy marriage celebrant and podcaster with Showy Ovaries on Menopause. She also recently discovered she is related to Jane Austen’s rumoured flirtation, Thomas Langlois Lefroy. She is his 5th Great Niece! (This story told here)