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AUSTEN’SPRIDE
atThe5thAvenueTheatre,Seattle
ROLE:FITZWILLIAMDARCY
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Thankssomuch!W|SCasting
’19-’20 SEASON AUSTEN’S PRIDE FITZWILLIAM DARCY 1
FITZWILLIAM DARCY SIDE #1
START
DARCY (Quietly, to ELIZABETH) Even a wise man can be made ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.
ELIZABETH I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense do divert me, but these are precisely what you are without?
DARCY No one is without failing –
CAROLINE (Stops playing) Mr. Darcy, will you turn my pages?
(DARCY turns the page, CAROLINE resumes playing)
DARCY (Crossing back to ELIZABETH) – No one is without failing, but it has been my object in life to avoid weaknesses which expose one to ridicule.
ELIZABETH Weaknesses … such as vanity and pride?
DARCY Vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride --
CAROLINE (Cutting him off) Mr. Darcy?! … (DARCY turns another page, CAROLINE resumes playing – very accomplished and dramatically.
SHE is all smiles when DARCY pays her attention, but shoots ELIZABETH daggers when HE turns his attention away)
DARCY
(Continues from where Caroline cut him off) But pride – where there is real superiority, pride will always be acceptable.
’19-’20 SEASON AUSTEN’S PRIDE FITZWILLIAM DARCY 1
ELIZABETH So a person may be proud without being vain? --
CAROLINE (Abruptly stopping, before DARCY can respond) Your examination of Mr. Darcy is over, I presume. -- And pray, what is the result?
ELIZABETH He has no defects. He says so himself.
DARCY I have faults.
ELIZABETH Such as?
DARCY My good opinion once lost is lost forever. (ELIZABETH thinking he is referring back to her “tolerable-ness” becomes cold)
ELIZABETH (Icily) You have chosen your fault well. -- I really cannot laugh at it.
DARCY No character is without defect.
ELIZABETH And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.
DARCY And yours is willfully to misunderstand them.
CAROLINE Mr. Darcy, what should you like to hear next? A reel? (Confident in her singing ability) An air.
DARCY (Regaining his composure) Miss Bennet … will you play for us?
’19-’20 SEASON AUSTEN’S PRIDE FITZWILLIAM DARCY 1
ELIZABETH (Taken aback) Oh! (She smiles but makes no response) (The scene freezes)
CAROLINE (To AUSTEN) Why does Mr. Darcy ask Elizabeth to play!?
ELIZABETH (To AUSTEN, annoyed) Does he want me to say, “Yes” so he can criticize my ability?.
(DARCY, CAROLINE and ELIZABETH all stare at AUSTEN expectantly)
AUSTEN My dear, I would not play if I were you.
(AUSTEN makes an adjustment to the manuscript, as the scene continues)
DARCY (Waiting for her answer) Miss Bennet … will you play for us?
ELIZABETH (Without fear) Oh! … I’d rather not. Your good opinion once lost, is lost forever.
DARCY (ELIZABETH attracts him more than he likes … Dismissive, to AUSTEN) Elizabeth Bennet has been at Netherfield long enough.
END
’19-’20 SEASON AUSTEN’S PRIDE FITZWILLIAM DARCY 2
FITZWILLIAM DARCY SIDE #2
START
DARCY
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
(ELIZABETH, astonished, stares and colours in silence) From the very beginning, from the first moment of my acquaintance with you, I found you to be … plain …
(Self corrects, finding the right word) tolerable … BUT WHATEVER THE REASON, I MUST CONFIDE,
IT SEEMS WE WERE DESTINED TO MEET AT PARTIES, ASSEMBLIES AND ON THE STREET. I COULD NOT AVOID YOU. I TRIED.
You are …
SURPRISINGLY WITTY AND SMART. YOUR INTELLIGENCE SET YOU APART. CONTENT TO WALK MILES AND TO JUMP OVER STILES, HOW YOUR PLAYFULNESS CAPTURED MY HEART.
Still, I can’t overlook the inferiority of your family. Connections like yours …
IT’S CLEAR MY HEAD AND HEART DO NOT AGREE. MY FEELINGS GIVE MY VOICE COMMAND. FREE ME NOW FROM ALL MY AGONY.
Grant me the acceptance of your hand. (Very long awkward pause)
ELIZABETH
I am sorry to have pained you, but I have never desired your good opinion, and you have bestowed it most unwillingly. (Pause)
DARCY
(With forced calmness)
’19-’20 SEASON AUSTEN’S PRIDE FITZWILLIAM DARCY 2
And this is all the reply which I am to have the honour of expecting? I might, perhaps, wish to be informed why, with so little endeavor at civility, I am thus rejected.
ELIZABETH
I might as well enquire why you chose to tell me that you like me against your will? I have every reason in the world to think ill of you. Can you deny that you have divided Mr. Bingley from my sister, Jane?
DARCY
I have no wish of denying it.
ELIZABETH
Mr. Wickham was right about you!
DARCY
(In a less tranquil tone, and with heightened colour) You take an eager interest in that gentleman’s concerns.
ELIZABETH
Who can help but take an interest? You reduced him to his present state of poverty. You denied him what was promised by your father.
DARCY
And this is your opinion of me! Thank you for explaining it so fully. Perhaps my offenses might have been overlooked had your pride not been hurt by my honesty.
ELIZABETH
(Attempting to maintain composure) You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy. Your honesty merely spared me the concern I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner. (DARCY starts but says nothing)
ELIZABETH (Continues)
You are arrogant; you are conceited; you have no regard for the feelings of others. You are the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.
DARCY
(Stunned) You have said quite enough, madam. I perfectly comprehend your feelings. Forgive me for having taken up so much of your time, and accept my best wishes for your health and happiness. (He nods and exits)
END
’19-’20 SEASON AUSTEN’S PRIDE FITZWILLIAM DARCY 3
FITZWILLIAM DARCY SIDE #3
START
DARCY
Miss Bennet.
ELIZABETH
Mr. Darcy. (They stare at each other in silence. He bows. She curtseys. Pause)
ELIZABETH
(Summoning her courage) Mr. Darcy, I must thank you for your unexampled kindness to my sister, Lydia. Ever since I found out what you did –
DARCY
(Extremely surprised, tries to formulate his thoughts) You were never to know. Your uncle was to take the credit …
ELIZABETH
No! Please. Let me thank you again and again, in the name of all my family, for that generous compassion which induced you to take so much trouble.
DARCY
If you will thank me, let it be for yourself alone. I thought only of you. (ELIZABETH, much embarrassed, says nothing) You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever. (ELIZABETH, feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of his situation, now
forces herself to speak immediately, though not very fluently)
ELIZABETH
HOW CAN IT BE THE MAN IN THE PORTRAIT IS STANDING HERE WITH OPEN HEART? WHERE DO I BEGIN? WHERE DO I START?
Mr. Darcy, my feelings are changed entirely. (The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt before.)
DARCY
’19-’20 SEASON AUSTEN’S PRIDE FITZWILLIAM DARCY 3
Yes?
ELIZABETH
Yes!
END
’19-’20 SEASON AUSTEN’S PRIDE
FITZWILLIAM DARCY/TOM LEFROY 4
FITZWILLIAM DARCY / TOM LEFROY SIDE #4
START
AUSTEN
(Chasing after him)
Tom -- What is it?
TOM
Jane. – My dear Miss Austen … In vain have I struggled, it will not do. I’m afraid the day is come
on which we are to flirt our last.
AUSTEN
(Shocked, where is this coming from?)
Tom !? --
TOM
We ought not involve ourselves in an affection which the want of fortune would make so very
imprudent.
AUSTEN
We don’t care about fortune.
TOM
Our families do. I cannot afford to marry, and you have no dowry.
AUSTEN
I’m not good enough?!
TOM
(Pulling a letter out of his jacket)
Please. Do me the honour of reading that letter.
AUSTEN
Tom! I love you.
TOM
Love? … Love, it seems, is not good enough …
END
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