Talent Wanted for "Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley"
The company is holding auditions for "Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley" and looking for performers, please see the details below. Additional info: Auditions will consist of reading from sides of the show. A 60- to 90-second monologue is welcome but not required. Note: The script invites diverse casting; Jane Austen's characters are for everyone. Ages are approximate, more how the characters will be read by the audience rather than actual ages of the actors.
8 roles
Finally coming into her own. Intelligent, curious, and lively. Does not suffer fools.
Studious and unsociable who has never spent time around women or large families. Prefers books to people. Has no idea what to do with his recent inheritance.
Married to Mr. Darcy. Confident, charming, witty. Closest to her sister Jane
Loving, generous, smart, and somewhat socially stiff. Quiet and vigilant, and knows what it means to pine for love.
Married to Mr. Bingley. Sweet and optimistic. Visibly quite pregnant.
Gracious and happy, Jane is the focus of his life. Always ready with a smile.
Flirtatious, youthful, self-centered, the kind of person you want at a party to energize and engage the guests.
Only daughter of Lady de Bourgh, grew up in her mother's shadow and never learned to ask for anything or speak for herself. Judgmental and impatient like her mother.