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Proud Mary and Prejudiced Lydia

10-minute comedy
based on Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Bechdel test asks whether a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. Proud Mary and Prejudiced Lydia goes even further. It never mentions any males at all.
  
SYNOPSIS
To teach her insolent youngest sister a lesson, Mary Bennet has challenged Lydia to a duel with pistols. She only intends to wound her slightly. But this is still too much for their anxious sister Kitty.
 
CHARACTERS
MARY BENNET, sanctimonious teenage girl
LYDIA BENNET, lively teenage girl
KITTY (CATHERINE) BENNET, sensitive teenage girl
                    
Note: Lydia is the tallest sister.
  
SETTING
The park at Longbourn in Hertfordshire, England
  
TIME
Late 18th or early 19th Century

Published by YouthPLAYS (Los Angeles)

(online reading)
Anything Goes! Theatre Lab

ANDTheatre Company
New York, NY
​May 3, 2023


Cast: Leslie C. Nemet (Mary), Deborah De Lorenzo (Lydia), Lauren Proda (Kitty)​
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Leslie C. Nemet (Mary), Deborah De Lorenzo (Lydia) and Lauren Proda (Kitty)​

(online reading)
P.A.G.E.S.
New York, NY
July 19, 2022


Cast: Alyson Linefsky (Mary), Victoria Freedman (Lydia), Saoirse Hooper (Kitty)​
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Alyson Linefsky (Mary), Victoria Freedman (Lydia) and Saoirse Hooper (Kitty)​

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Pint Sized Plays
Remarkable Theatre

Queenstown & Wanaka, New Zealand
September 21-24, 2017
​

Cast: Franziska Maciej (Mary), Vida McCord (Lydia), Jo Spencer (Kitty)

Directed by Jane Robertson

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Franziska Maciej (Mary), Vida McCord (Lydia), Jo Spencer (Kitty)
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Vida McCord (Lydia), Jane Robertson (director), Rex McGregor (writer), Franziska Maciej (Mary), Jo Spencer (Kitty)

Take Ten Festival 2017
Between Us Productions
Jewel Box Theater
New York, NY
April 5, 7 & 8, 2017
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Cast: Patrina Caruana (Mary), Carmen Nikae (Lydia), Sonja Gabrielsen (Kitty)

Directed by Susane Lee
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Patrina Caruana (Mary)
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Sonja Gabrielsen (Kitty), Carmen Nikae (Lydia), Patrina Caruana (Mary)
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Carmen Nikae (Lydia), Sonja Gabrielsen (Kitty)
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Sonja Gabrielsen (Kitty), Carmen Nikae (Lydia), Patrina Caruana (Mary) - rehearsal
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Carmen Nikae (Lydia), Sonja Gabrielsen (Kitty), Patrina Caruana (Mary) - rehearsal