by Andrew Davies
Based on the novel by Jane Austen
Directed by Mara Monaghan
Auditions Announcement for Pride and Prejudice!
Do you enjoy heated looks from across the room? Are you looking to fall in love with the person you hated? Come audition for the classic Jane Austen story Pride & Prejudice!
Adapted from Andrew Davies’ hit 1995 BBC TV series, this delightful comedy of manners revolves around the tumultuous relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the lively and mischievous daughter of a gentleman from the country, and Darcy, a wealthy and proud lord.
Audition dates: September 8th and 10th from 6:00-9:00PM
Audition location: Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer Street, South Portland
Important information:
- Show dates are November 7th, 8th, 14th, and 15th at 7:30PM and November 9th, 15th, and 16th at 2PM (Please note the Saturday matinee!)
- Auditions are for actors ages 15+, and the roles for 15-18 are VERY limited.
- While accents are not required for auditions, they will be for the show
- For any other information or to submit a digital audition, please email the director at maramonaghan@gmail.com
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Cast Descriptions
ELIZABETH BENNET – (Lizzy to her family) Our heroine, 20s very bright, very lively, with a mischievous sense of humour. In the modern parlance, she takes no shit from anyone.
JANE BENNET – 20s her older sister. Beautiful, gentle, affectionate, tends to think well of everyone.
MARY BENNET – late teens, early 20s, serious, bookish without being particularly bright, earnest and humourless.
LYDIA – late teens, early 20s, high-spirited, sexually precocious, one of those girls who ‘just wanna have fun’. Thoughtless, but not a bad bone in her body.
KITTY – late teens, early 20s, very much under Lydia’s influence. Excitable and easily led.
MR BENNET – late 40s, slightly older than Mrs Bennet, clever and dryly witty. Twenty-two years ago, in his youth, he got Mrs Bennet pregnant and did the decent thing and married her, and has stoically endured the consequences ever since.
MRS BENNET – early 40s, was probably a Lydia in her youth. She still has a romantic heart, but now all her energies are devoted to securing advantageous marriages for her daughters. Mr Bennet is ‘landed gentry’, Mrs Bennet is from a class below.
MR DARCY – late 20s, is so grand that no one dares to call him by his Christian name. Enormously rich, he owns a grand house (Pemberley) and a large chunk of Derbyshire. Clever, proud, and reserved. But somewhere inside there beats a loving heart.
GEORGIANA DARCY – 17, his much-loved sister. Very much looks up to her older brother.
MR CHARLES BINGLEY – 25, is a rich young gentleman from the North. Warm, friendly, eager to see the good in everyone. He might have a slight Yorkshire or North-Eastern accent.
MISS CAROLINE BINGLEY – 20s, his sister. Snobbish and judgmental, but desperate for Mr Darcy’s approval.
MRS LOUISA HURST – late 20s, another sister. Miss Bingley’s wing-woman. (Mr Hurst is only interested in drinking, card games and country sports, so didn’t want to be in this stage version.)
SIR WILLIAM LUCAS – 50ish, did very well in trade in Meryton, very proud of his knighthood. Good-natured, a bit pompous.
CHARLOTTE LUCAS – early 20s, his daughter. A close friend of Elizabeth’s, she has a ruthlessly practical approach to life.
MR COLLINS – 30ish, a rather dim-witted clergyman who has an unjustifiably high opinion of himself. Greatly in awe of Lady Catherine, to whom he owes his living.
LADY CATHERINE DE BOURGH – 50s, a wealthy aristocratic widow, aunt to Mr Darcy. Autocratic, unpleasant and fairly stupid.
LADY ANNE DE BOURGH – her daughter, early 20s, pale and sickly, she suffers from various unspecified health problems. Never speaks in this version.
GEORGE WICKHAM – late 20s, a personable young officer. Childhood friend (and now enemy) of Mr Darcy. We need to think he’s going to be the hero when we meet him, he’s so charming.
DENNY – 20ish, another officer.
MR GARDINER – late 40s, Mrs Bennet’s brother. Kind, sensible and practical.
MRS GARDINER – 30s, affectionate, aunt to Elizabeth.
MRS REYNOLDS – 60s, housekeeper at Pemberley.
HANNAH or HARRY – late teens, servant at the Lambton inn.