Twelve Hours | Theatre Performance

Gates open 3pm, performance 3.30-4.30pm: Back by popular demand, enjoy this one-woman performance imagining Jane Austen's thoughts and inner debates during an intense event in her life that is often overlooked.

'...funny, pithy, lucid and very moving. Very Jane.' ~ Emma Thompson

A solo performance in The Vyne's Stone Gallery about Jane Austen's 12-hour engagement, it's December 1802, Jane is twenty-six and back in Hampshire visiting her friends Catherine and Alethea, members of the wealthy Wither family on the Manydown estate. Estate owner Harris Bigg-Wither has just proposed. It was a big decision to say, "Yes,". It is an even a bigger decision to refuse the offer after twelve hours. Written by Phil Howe.

All tickets £20. Booking essential. Tickets are non-refundable. Call the Box Office on: 0344 249 1895 or book online: https://bit.ly/4oU6W1h

Please note non-members entering The Vyne before 3pm on the day of the performance will need to pay normal admission.

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