Adrian Lukis as Jane Austen's dashing rogue George Wickham in a new play from Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, Being Mr Wickham, which explores the former soldier 30 years after Pride and Prejudice - Credit: Original Theatre Company The Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, emerges from lockdown by staging a live online broadcast of Being Mr Wickham – a new play exploring the character of George Wickham, Jane Austen’s duplicitous soldier in her classic novel Pride and Prejudice. The role of Wickham is being revisited by actor and co-author Adrian Lukis who first played the part in the BBC’s classic 1994 production opposite Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth.