Northanger Abbey at the Upstairs at the Gatehouse 19 April

Traffic of the Stage presents Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen, adapted by John Cooper at the Upstairs at the Gatehouse Theatre, in Highgate, north London, 19 April to 14 May 2011

Directed by Harry Meacher, designed by Bryan Hands , cast includes Ashley Charles (James Morland), Terry Diab (Mrs Allen), Victoria Emslie (Catherine Morland), Sasha Jacques (Mary Andrews/Alice), Oliver King (Henry Tilney), Anna Passey (Isabella Thorpe), Tom Reah (General Tilney), Fergus Rees (John Thorpe), Toby Spearpoint (Captain Tilney), Saskia Willis (Eleanor Tilney) .

Concerns the misadventures of Catherine Morland, an impressionable young girl with an overactive imagination, who makes her debut into fashionable Bath society, and later removes to the secluded and mysterious Northanger Abbey in Gloucestershire, where she must learn the difference between fiction and reality , and between false and true friendship.