The Hampstead Players 2026 Summer Production

The Hampstead Players’ 2026 summer production is Emma by Jane Austen, adapted by Alice Lambert and directed by Sheena Craig and Alice Lambert. It will be performed at Hampstead Parish Church on Thursday 2nd, Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th July at 7:30pm, with a Saturday matinée at 2:30pm.

Tickets are available here

It’s 1813, and clever, confident twenty-year-old Emma Woodhouse delights in her privileged position in the village of Highbury. When her former governess, Miss Taylor, marries, Emma befriends seventeen-year-old Harriet Smith, a good-natured, naïve girl of uncertain parentage. Ignoring the warnings of her friend and neighbour, Mr Knightley, Emma attempts to improve Harriet’s prospects by matchmaking…but her choice of the ambitious vicar, Mr Elton, proves disastrous.

As Emma tries to recover from her mistake and put things right, the arrival of the accomplished Jane Fairfax and the charming Frank Churchill unsettles Highbury further. Through a ball, a strawberry-picking party and a picnic, misunderstandings multiply, feelings deepen and secrets surface before Emma finally recognises the truth of her own heart.

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