Pride and Prejudice

romp and rumpus style

So, Kate Hamill, the playwright/actor that adapted Sense and Sensibility followed it by an adaptation of, of course, Pride and Prejudice. This is the play for which she cast herself as the lead and her future husband as the love interest. Mr. Darcy is not just the love interest in this little production. Is he one of the love interests? Like the Romeo for the Anglophile set? Someone knows the answer to that one.

This is how Ms. Hamill describes Lizzy, the character she plays in the character descriptions:

Clever, spirited; can be sharp-tongued. Gets flustered, which makes her klutzy. Prides herself on good judgment. Not especially beautiful.

I mean, I think I now understand my generation a little better. Minus the ‘not especially beautiful’ part, Lizzy could be any one of the spunky Disney princesses of the past 2 decades.

And this is the description her husband’s Mr.Darcy gets:

One of the richest men in England. Too proper for his own good; awkward in most social contexts. Prides himself…