Martin Lutheran High School presents:

Pride

and

Prejudice

 

Adapted by Helen Jerome from the novel by Jane Austen.

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

 

The play concentrates on Mrs. Bennet’s determination to get her daughters married. Jane, Elizabeth and Lydia are likely-looking girls in an unlikely-looking period when a woman’s one possible career is matrimony. To be a wife was success. Anything else was failure.  Jane and her Mr. Bingley and Lydia with her Mr. Wickham are quite content with the way things are; not Elizabeth! She actually refuses to marry Mr. Collins whom she openly deplores and Mr. Darcy whom she secretly admires.  The play is the story of the dual between Elizabeth and her pride and Mr. Darcy and his prejudice. Each gives in before the evening is over, and pride and prejudice meet halfway.