© James Findlay
There s no doubting the real star of
Being Mr Wickham: it s the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, which in Libby Watson s clever design glints in the background of this monologue, bringing the glory of a preserved Regency setting to the story of what happened to George Wickham after Jane Austen s Pride and Prejudice ended.
Wickham, you will remember, is the rogue who marries Lydia in the most disreputable and the most hurried of the novel s weddings; she is saved from ruin by the intervention of Mr Darcy, who forces Wickham, his father s godson, to make an honest woman of her after they have eloped. The events surrounding their match pave the way for the more famous and more reputable one between Elizabeth and Darcy.
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