Jane Eyre in Seattle and Hurlevent in Washington D.C.

Two alerts today from (almost) coast to coast. From Jane Eyre to Wuthering Heights. From theatre to cinema.

Another production of Polly Teale's Jane Eyre premieres today, February 11, in Seattle, Washington, US (technically, the opening night is next Wednesday, February 14. Today is a preview). If you are a usual reader of this blog probably you will know already that The Acting Company is touring the US with another production of the play.

Jane Eyre

adapted by Polly Teale
from Charlotte Bronte’s novel
directed by Katjana Vadeboncoeur
February 11-March 4
Playhouse Theatre
UW (University of Washington) School of Drama

Jane, a simple governess, is poor, plain and unloved. But locked up in the attic of her imagination lives a woman so passionate and full of longing she must be guarded for fear of the havoc she would wreak if let loose. Questioning the boundaries of class and gender, it is one of the most powerful tales of romance and suspense ever told.

Preview: February 11 7:30 PM
February 14, 16(*),22, 24, 28 and March 2, 7:30 PM
February 18, March 2 2:00 PM
(*) Post play discussion.

From the State of Washington to Washington D.C., where the National Gallery of Art is devoting a film series to Jacques Rivette on the streets of Paris. Today is the showing of Hurlevent, his very personal take on Wuthering Heights.

Wuthering Heights (Hurlevent)
February 11 at 4:00 p.m.

Rivette moved Emily Brontë's classic tale (adapted for the screen by Pascal Bonitzer, Suzanne Schiffman, and Rivette) to the stony, stark Cévennes region in the south of France. The period is the early 1930s, the heroine's name remains Catherine, and Heathcliff becomes Roch. "A tale of tenuous boundaries between classes, between reality and dream, between viewer and viewed," wrote Juliet Clark. As in the original novel, the two protagonists are one with their surroundings until Catherine is "seduced by civilization, and awakens as a wife in a pastel dream of affluence, triggering the nightmare that is Roch's revenge. Through it all, the camera keeps its distance, watching and listening to performances that are less expressions of impetuous passion than choreographed movements in space." (1985, 35 mm, French with subtitles, 130 mins.)

Picture source.
Categories: Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Theatre, Wuthering Heights