Jane Eyre
Running: 12 May 2008 - 17 May 2008
Start: 19:30
by Charlotte Bronte adapted by Polly Teale
directed by George Ritchie
Wildman Theatre
Charlotte Bronte spent most of her life in a remote Yorkshire village. Yet, like Jane, she yearned to live beyond the limitations of her restricted horizons. It was this desire to express her emotions and dreams of fulfilment that led her to create her literary masterpieces.
Polly Teale is able to expand and elucidate the idea that "hidden inside the sensible, frozen Jane, exists another self who is passionate and sensual. Bertha (trapped in the attic) embodies the fire and longing which Jane must lock away in order to survive in Victorian England." But while the free Jane is imprisoned by convention, the locked-away Bertha is liberated in Jane's mind. "If ever an adaptation could make you read or reread the original, this is it. Brilliant, big, stormy play." Sunday Times
This production will also be performed at the Heron Theatre, Cumbria on 2 - 3 May. For details visit the website
