BELOW-STAIRS maids never get placed centre stage, even though there can be no romance without clean sheets and that’s the premise of Glasgow-based Blood of the Young’s adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.

It’s a slightly misleading framing of Isobel McArthur’s update of Jane Austen’s novel, which only gives superficial attention to the servants. Yet, directed by Paul Brotherston, it’s nonetheless a delightfully raucous production that swaps the book’s ironic politeness for direct, expletive-rich humour.

In this version Mrs Bennet, who needs to marry her daughters into good money in order to stave off destitution, flakes out drunk on the sofa and frantically sucks on an inhaler, while Elizabeth Bennet (Meghan Tyler) and Fitzwilliam Darcy (McArthur) discuss their first meeting to their respective friends in the toilet cubicles at Meryton Ball.