MADS on Brontë

The Macclesfield Amateur Dramatic Society (MADS) performs from today September 18 until September 23, an amateur production of Polly Teale's Brontë play.

18th - 23rd September 2006
Bronte , a drama by Polly Teale

The short, troubled lives of the Bronte sisters have become one of the great literary myths of all time. How is it the three Victorian spinsters, living in isolation on the Yorkshire Moors could have written some of the most powerful and passionate fiction of all time? And why should these plain, reclusive women have invented such stories? This unusual play, first performed in 2005, evokes the real and imagined worlds of Charlotte, Emily, Anne and their brother Branwell, living together in the Howarth Parsonage. Moving backwards and forwards in time, the fictional characters come to haunt their creators resulting, in the author's own words, "in a dramatic collision between drab domesticity and soaring, unfettered imagination."

Venue: MADS Little Theatre Lord Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 6SY

Categories: Theatre