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Northanger Abbey, Orange Tree Theatre review - larky retelling of Austen's satire with a poignant core by Helen Hawkins

Zoe Cooper's queer reading is a tonic: clever, funny and seriously silly What Zoe Cooper has concocted in her loving rewiring of Jane Austen's first completed novel looks at first sight like a knockabout satire of a satire. But her aim is more sober than that: a queer rereading of this text as she first experienced it as a student.

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:06AM on January 26, 2024

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