Throughout the Pride and Prejudice Novel Magazine, we've placed advertisements for the theatre. The featured plays—some imagined, some real—have been woven into our Regency zeitgeist by blending original playbill typography with our own interpretations and .ai-generated imagery.

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Wherever possible, we've included actors' names from original productions. The .ai was guided to ensure male actors appear in striking red jackets, emphasising their roles as utter cads. You'll see this clearly in our selection of plays: The Beggar's Opera, The Clandestine Marriage, Don Juan, and our own creation, The Redcoat Rake. The only exception to this rule is Cinderella.

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Cinderella

Cinderella was staged frequently across London theatres during the mid to late Regency, first appearing in the West End in 1804. Our design particularly drew inspiration from an 1830 Theatre Royal playbill. The delightful name "Miss Inverarity" appealed so much we featured her in other magazine shoots, despite the Newcastle-born actress being only six months old at the publication of Pride and Prejudice.

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In our fictional playbill, Miss Inverarity wears a replica of Austen’s own topaz cross. An original Cinderella playbill from Drury Lane Theatre is discussed further in Ronan Beckman’s insightful blog, linked below.