Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is on the VCAA 2025 VCE Drama and Theatre Studies Playlist.

FIERCE | FUNNY | BOLD

“What does it matter which one he chooses? We have a horde of them! Any one of them will do!”

A bold new take on Pride and Prejudice, created by the award-winning theatre ensemble Bloomshed. Built from the depths of the housing crisis, this adaptation sees Austen’s classic re-imagined for 2025. It’s fierce. It’s funny. It’s all about fortune. Pride and Prejudice is back, and this time, love is a high-stakes game in the cutthroat world of the upper crust.

In the world of Pride and Prejudice, a housing shortage has transformed romantic relationships into calculating transactions. Female desire is subordinated to social obligation, as families strive to climb the social ladder. Love is limited to the pursuit of an “advantageous marriage,” and everyone is reduced to the value of their assets. ‘Pride and Prejudice’ deals with issues of class, power, and oppressive gender roles.

Addressing the concerns of a generation staring down the barrel of intense economic and environmental hardship, Pride and Prejudice questions the function of ‘Love’ in the twenty-first century. As the popularity of period drama soars and dreams of homeownership plummet, does love (and marriage) become a means to an end? Or, in a world where individuals are defined by their asset portfolio, is love our collective salvation? A searing satire on polite society, Bloomshed will attempt to deliver the rom com’s most prized outcome: the happy ever after.