Lady Susan Players Theatre, Trinity College

Lady Susan is a nasty piece of work, forever scheming with delicious malice to woo other women's husbands and impose herself …

Lady Susan is a nasty piece of work, forever scheming with delicious malice to woo other women's husbands and impose herself on the hospitality of others. One of her victims is the tiresomely good Catherine Vernon, who consoles herself with sending anguished letters to her mama. Inis Theatre are to be congratulated for using the restrictions of fringe theatre - a minimum of props, a small stage and a cast of two - to create a piece that is theatrical from start to finish. Lady Susan is adapted from an epistolary novella by Jane Austen, and the move from page to stage mostly works well. The mannered style adopted by the actors, Iseult Golden and Carmel Stephens, overpowers the gentle script in the first half, but it thrives when we get to the high drama and low deeds of Lady Susan's endgame.

Runs until Saturday