Lots of reviews

Lots of reviews today.

Let's begin with not exactly a review but an announcement. The Acting Company's Jane Eyre US tour is coming to the Louisiana Tech University. The News Star presents the performance:

The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Howard Auditorium, Center for the Performing Arts.
In Polly Teale's adaptation of the classic, rather than setting Jane and her boss, Rochester, in the central confrontation, Teale pairs Jane and Bertha, Rochester's mad wife who stays locked in the attic. The conflict is Jane's encounter with her own repressed desire, hunger, loneliness and rage.

Picture Source: Richard Termine/The Acting Company // Hannah Cabell plays Jane and Christopher Oden plays Rochester in "Jane Eyre."

Some days ago we presented a student production of Jane Eyre. The Musical in Bountiful, Utah. We are not sure if this blog entry is talking about this particular production, but we rather think so.

The acting was rather poor and the singer rarely better. Generally each cast member had one moment of success and no more. (...)Then there was the intriguing addition of songs that had never been in the musical. Little moments when speech should have been used, but instead a tuneless melody (oxymoron?) was used.(...)
Don't get me wrong, it was a nice effort, but in comparison to those musicals of the past it was simply laughable. A tragedy, because Jane Eyre can be such a timeless and fun tale. (Apropos2nothing)

The Inspired Evening at the Brontë Parsonage Museum is reviewed by Isobel Stirk on this Brontë Parsonage Blog post:

(...) It was a most enjoyable evening and I am sure nobody would have left Haworth without echoing what the two authors had reiterated – that, through their writings, the Brontës are still alive – not dead - and are still influencing and inspiring writers and readers alike in the twenty first century.

Some time ago we also posted about Dil Diya Dard Liya, the Bollywood 1966 version of Wuthering Heights. Passion for Cinema also comments the film.

The original book is also reviewed on the Persephone blog.

Categories: Brontë Parsonage Museum, Jane Eyre,Movies-DVD-TV, Music,Talks,Theatre,Wuthering Heights