PHIL HOWE

Twelve Hours

The Walled Garden, Down Grange

Basingstoke Festival

Weekend One

Date: Sunday 22 June 2025
Time: 2pm and 4.30pm
Location: The Walled Garden, Down Grange

**This is a ticketed performance**

A solo performance of Twelve hours the story of Jane Austen’s proposal.

It’s December 1802, Jane is twenty-six and back in Hampshire visiting her friends Catherine and Alethea, members of the wealthy Wither family on the Manydown estate. Estate owner Harris Bigg-Wither has just proposed. It was a big decision to say, “Yes,”. It is an even a bigger decision to refuse the offer after twelve hours. Written by Phil Howe.

Bring a picnic

Set in the beautiful Down Grange walled gardens we advise audience members to bring a picnic and something to sit on. As always with out-door theatre please be prepared for the ‘British weather’ by packing sunscreen, umbrellas and snow boots! (only joking about the snow boots!)

Times

Gates will open at 1pm. Picnicking will be happening 1 hour prior to the performance which will begin at 2pm.

Directed by Nick Ash from Scratch Built Productions.

Supported by Basinsgtoke and Deane Festival and Four Lanes Trust.

Special thanks to Proteus Creation Space.

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