Casting Performers for "Pride and Prejudice" Play

Gender: Female presenting Character Notes: Elizabeth is well-read and quick-witted, though sometimes her wit can get ahead of her sense. She is warm and sensible but can be stubborn to a fault. Loves a good laugh. ** Intimacy required: A rather intense and prolonged kiss with Darcy.

Gender: Female presenting Character Notes: The eldest of the Bennet sisters, Jane, is beautiful and refined; she is also reserved and non-confrontational. She looks for the best in everyone but does not brook nonsense. Kind. ** Intimacy required: A simple kiss with Bingley.

Gender: Female presenting Character Notes: A woman of little understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. Her only goal in life is to see her daughters married. It's important that she play levels other than shrill. Her concerns are valid, although her expression of them is often inappropriate.

Gender: Male presenting Character Notes: Darcy is honest, well-mannered, and proud. He has lived with great wealth his whole life and can be aloof and haughty, but he does not go out of his way to demonstrate it as others of his class might. He is intent on rules and tradition and does not do things by halves. He does not react well to change or to strangers. ** Intimacy required: A rather intense and prolonged kiss with Elizabeth. ** Stage Combat: Altercations with Wickham and Bingley.

Gender: Female presenting Character Notes: Elizabeth's good friend and neighbor, Charlotte, is on the brink of spinsterhood and knows it. Intelligent, grounded, and pragmatic, she is well aware of society's expectations and has a plan to meet them. For Charlotte, the business of marriage trumps the dream of romance.

Gender: Male presenting Character Notes: A genuine, modest, sweet-tempered, and exuberant gentleman. Like Jane, he tends to see the good in everyone. He is not always the most confident fellow. Darcy's best friend. ** Intimacy required: A simple kiss with Jane. **Stage Combat: Altercation with Darcy.

Gender: Female presenting Character Notes: Unlike her brother, Caroline is not slow to advertise their wealth and status. Proud, aloof, conceited. Beautiful and knows it. Can be sweet if she wants to. She wants what is best for herself and her brother—quite literally.

Gender: Female presenting Character Notes: Lady Catherine's daughter and heir, Anne cowers under the gaze of her powerful mother. Left on her own, she is practically invisible. ** A non-speaking role, probably double with Caroline.

Gender: Male presenting Character Notes: A middle-aged clergyman who is earnest and socially awkward. Well-intentioned and educated, his sentences are unnecessarily complicated. Rather in awe of the wealthy and popular. A keen gardener. Maybe physically not the most graceful.

Gender: Male presenting Character Notes: A handsome gent who manages to turn just about every conversation to himself or flirting. Self-preserving, prodigal, scheming. A narcissistic predator under his charm, but if you haven't read the book, no one should know that. ** Intimacy required: Kissing and choreographed seduction sequences with both Lydia and Georgiana. ** Stage Combat: Altercation with Darcy.

Gender: Female presenting Character Notes: A noblewoman possessing incredible wealth and influence, Lady Catherine is the very picture of upper-class snobbishness. As Darcy's aunt, she is very possessive of him. She speaks her mind, and her word is law. The kind of person who feels that she is doing you a favor by glancing in your direction.

Gender: Male presenting Character Notes: A clever, thoughtful, upright gentleman. A decorated and admired military officer. Darcy's cousin and good friend. Single and currently unattached. The most "normal" behaving man in our cast of characters.

Gender: Male presenting Character Notes: The patriarch of the Bennet family and a gentleman of modest income. He loves his daughters, but would rather hide in the library than be involved in their romantic shenanigans.