Seeking Talents for 'Catching Girls' Working Title Film
Main characters: David Wevill, Assia Wevill (already secured), Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes
5 roles
Poet, romantic, funny but serious, in love. Canadian, blond, blue-eyed. Speaks with a soft Canadian accent. Meets the love of his life on a boat. Problem is, she's married but seeks adoration, fun and stability with someone who is intelligent and intellectually stimulating.
Poet, writer, falls in love easily, but is it really attraction mixed with belief that it's love? Stoic, fair-haired darling of England's literati in the 1960s. Speaks with a soft Northern English accent, ambivalent approach to infidelity, as long as he's honest.
Poet. Strong, but also sensitive, self-doubting at times when her husband parades his infidelity.
Canadian Economist, met his wife at university, well-rounded, caring if somewhat bland. Sense of humour limited to basic, not much fun but stable. Bespectacled, wears suits, doesn't like his wife's sense of humour or flirting, but adores her.
Mischievous, yearning and scheming to get out of her cramped living quarters and see the world. Beautiful, funny, dismissive but vulnerable. Very sharp-witted, doesn't stay entertained with one partner for very long, although she tries. She yearns to be BIG. She translates poetry later in life, and falls for a man who destroys her by eventually turning cold on her. He has a complicated relationship with himself and with the women who depend on him.