Comedy Festival: Improvisers incorporate everything that's thrown at them, keeping the action moving and the laughs coming
In Austen Found, Ashton and Dungey – with musical accompaniment from Jason Smith – reveal previously unpublished works by Austen. On opening night, Ashton and Dungey performed “Humble and Haughty”, the touching tale of Catherine Tobias-Bottom. Catherine is a shy, retiring maiden of 21 years (“almost ancient”) who learns to become more thrusting (yup, pretty much every imaginable double-entendre was wrung out of that one) so as to catch the attention of the Edward Courtney, who saves her from the evil snares of the very tall German Mr Gazelle and learns to be less haughty in the ...