Amateur Rites 

What could be more unsurprising than a suburban AmDram company staging a Jane Austen adaptation? But the ambitions and neuroses of the members of Pogchurch Valley Amateur Dramatic Society come to a perilous and uproarious climax in the white heat of the rehearsal process for their production of Northanger Abbey.

 

A comedy of modern manners – a Stepping Out for the twenty first century – Amateur Rites requires a cast of nine actors, three men and six women. Published by Stagescripts, It’s had various successful productions across the UK, largely by amateur companies, appropriately enough.