Eyre Mission: Impossible

The Talladega, Pell City, Sylacauga Daily Home reports the performances of the Acting Company with Polly Teale's Jane Eyre in Talladega:

[The Talladega High School] Students also got to see “Jane Eyre.” (...)
[Michael Stewart] Allen had students draw the representations of their thoughts from specific words or phrases, using the result to show how many ways thoughts are expressed among people.
“You’ll have some that are literal, and some aren’t,” he said.
The students have prepared for seeing “Jane Eyre” by reading the novel and working with Lawler on the story, but Allen told them they can expect changes when they see the play, based upon the actors’ and directors’ interpretations of the book, adapting it into a play.
“The job of actors and directors is to make those choices, recreating them to become their images of the characters,” he said. “It’s like seeing a movie after reading the book. It becomes different.” (Laura Nation-Atchinson)

Actorserf is now re-reading Wuthering Heights and shares with us his impressions:

For various reasons, I've started re-reading Wuthering Heights. The first time I read it, I found myself focusing on Heathcliff's situation, though in retrospect that may have been because his dominates the latter half of it. I'm currently about halfway through it, and have come to realize that my initial impression of the flawed nature of Heathcliff's love might owe more to Catherine and her perception of it.

The true realization is this: Catherine's love is not a mature love. It is, in fact, a child's perception of love.

On the ever growing list of impossible and weird Wuthering Heights comparisons this one occupies a prominent position. It links Tolkien, Ben-Hur, Lawrence of Arabia and Wuthering Heights. The comment is about the newly published "The Children of Húrin" (based on a story of J.R.R. Tolkien, completed by his son Christopher Tolkien):

In some ways, the depth of the tragedies and the triumphs is even greater than that of 'The Lord of the Rings', and if approached well could actually make a better movie. An epic adventure with more "epic" than "adventure", perhaps, maybe along the lines of a 'Ben-Hur' or 'Lawrence of Arabia' on film, though I suspect a fair amount of 'Wuthering Heights' on the page. (Murdoc)

And we have now a Mission:Impossible for you. It's on Fancy Store-Bought Dirt:

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write the fictionalized autobiography of Scott Eyre, in the style of Jane. Perhaps consider Dusty Baker as Edward Rochester, with Barry Bonds as the hidden maniac? Maybe that's too flight of fancy. (Matt Bruce)

Categories: Books, Jane Eyre, Weirdo, Theatre, Wuthering Heights