Thrills, quills and celebrate! A comic look at Jane Austen’s letters

Fans of Jane Austen are invited to celebrate her life and work this December at a performance from LipService theatre group.

LipService have been creating original comedies from a distinctly female perspective since 1985 and will be working with Bury Libraries, Time to Read and the Arts Council England to perform a theatre production of "Thrills and Quills, Jane Austen's life in letters”.

The performance will take place at Ramsbottom Library on Saturday 9 December at 3pm. Tickets are £4, available online from Ticketlight at https://bury-council-libraries.ticketlight.co.uk

Also during December, library visitors are invited to ‘write a letter to Jane Austen’ using the Travelling Letter Exchange which is currently touring 22 libraries and galleries in the North West of England and will be at Bury Library from Wednesday 20 December to Wednesday 10 January. Everyone who writes a letter will receive one from another correspondent who has sat at the same desk.

A new ‘archive of letters’ will be put together with your contributions to document life in the North West of England during 2017. A selection of these letters will be published as an e-book in early 2018.

ENDS

Press release issued: 26 October 2017.