'The Stinking Fish of Southampton' street theatre, a Jane Austen 250 event

‘Beware of the insipid vanities and idle dissipations of the metropolis of England; Beware of the unmeaning luxuries of Bath and of the stinking fish of Southampton’. Love & Freindship, 1790. Jane Austen

Join Mrs Austen as she introduces you to her friends, neighbours, acquaintances and potential husbands for her unmarried daughters as you visit the site of the Austen’s home, the assembly rooms, bathing establishment and meet wealthy merchants, army deserters, famous actors, debtors and dashing naval officers.