Photo: J Elissa Marshall
Written By Jane Austen
Original Adaptation by James Maxwell, revised by Alan Stanford
Directed by Gavin Cameron-Webb
Performances: November 13 * **, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20 at 8:00 PM
November 15, 22 at 2:00 PM
B. Iden Payne Theatre
Tickets: $20 adults, $17 UT faculty & staff, $15 students available online at www.texasperformingarts.org or by phone at 477-6060.
*ASL interpreted performance November 13 at 8:00 PM.
**Join us November 13 for an Opening Night Reception immediately following the performance. Guests will be able to mingle with the cast, crew, and director of Pride and Prejudice while enjoying an assortment of light snacks and desserts.
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Synopsis: James Maxwell's Pride and Prejudice is a dramatization of Jane Austen's novel of the same name, published in 1813. The highly plot-driven comedy of manners set in 1811 centers on the Bennet family, a comfortable, but not excessively wealthy family living in the countryside of England. As the Bennets have five daughters and no sons, Mrs. Bennet's main objective in life is to find (wealthy) husbands for her daughters and retain Longbourn, the family estate, in the Bennet name. When Jane, the eldest daughter, falls in love with a wealthy landowner named Charles Bingle, Mrs. Bennet believes her problems solved. Bingly's snobbish family and his close friend and acquaintance Fitzwilliam Darcy, however, have other ideas.
Director: Gavin Cameron-Webb is delighted to make his UT debut. Previous classical productions include Hamlet (with Val Kilmer), Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Game of Love and Chance, Charley's Aunt and Pygmalion. He served as aritstic director of the Studio Arena theatre in Buffalo, NY for 13 seasons, and also taught at the Juilliard School. More recently has returned to being a free-lance director with productions in Cairo and Vienna as well as his native Colorado.
- Tom Truss as Mr. Bennet
- La Tasha Stephensas Mrs. Bennet
- Ashley Hayes as Jane Bennet
- Melissa Recalde as Elizabeth Bennet
- Jena Kirmse as Lydia Bennet
- Haley Hussey as Kitty Bennete
- Alycia Bowling as Mary Bennet
- John Harmon as Sir William Lucas
- Nora Davidson as Charlotte Lucas
- Harrison Butler as Charles Bingley
- Jessica Webb as Caroline Bingley
- Mark Scheibmeir as Fitz William Darcy
- Isaac Gomez as Mr. Denny
- Michael Sullivan as Mr. Wickham
- Shaun Patrick Tubbs as Mr. Collins
- Sydney Andrews as Lady Catherine
- Nicole Barnes as Reynolds
- Michelle Flanagan as Anne De Bourgh
- Clair Gose as Mrs. Jenkinson
- Andrew Kotrla
- Stephen Naimoli
- Justin Soloman
- Tim Stafford
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