The
NY Daily News recommends the dance piece
Art of Memory, in New York through July 21.
Don't miss Lisa Ramirez's brainy antidote to the airheads who've been in our faces so much lately. The beauty performs "Art of Memory," about four women who must escape a fantastical library by using everything from kids' games to alchemy to Bronte to Borges. Catch the show, also featuring Heather Harpham, Cassie Terman and Tanya Calamoneri, at the Ontological Hysterical Theater at St. Mark's Church at E. 10th St. and Second Ave. till Saturday. (Rush & Molloy)
To read more about its connection to the Brontës, we suggest you read the
alert we posted when it opened.
Yet another version of
The Mystery of Irma Vep goes on stage, this time as part of the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival at DeSales University.
The Morning Call includes a picture and a review. However, this time around the reviewer is not reminded of Wuthering Heights - as is usually the case - but of Jane Eyre.
The plot line is slim and brazenly borrows whole scenes and lines from meldodramas and gothic horror stories such as ''Dracula,'' ''Jane Eyre,'' ''Rebecca'' and ''Gaslight,'' as well as quotes from Shakespeare and Ibsen. But you need not know these classics to enjoy the comic chaos and gender confusion or to marvel at the two actors' dexterity as they switch costumes, characters and genders with seemingly little effort. (Myra Yellin Outwater)
Check the
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival website for more information on venue, tickets and times.
Something else that has made repeated appearances in BrontëBlog and bears a passing resemblance to Jane Eyre is Jacques Tourneur's 1943 film
I Walked with a Zombie.
W-Cinema posts an informative review on it and gives it outstanding marks.
Still in the movie industry,
Fame Magazine has a post on Jonathan Rhys Meyers. They give it as a fact that Jonathan Rhys Meyers will play Branwell in the forthcoming Brontë. Even though the
rumours are favourable nothing has been confirmed as yet by
AMC Pictures.
Later this year Jonathan will also begin working two new movies due out next year. In Bronte he will star alongside Michelle Williams in the 19th Century drama about the life of author Charlotte Bronte. (Andrea Clarke)
We would take it with a pinch of salt.
É ter na mente (Eternamente) reviews - in Portuguese - O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes, that is, Wuthering Heights. And
Notes from the kitchen sink writes about saucy Jane (Eyre).
I have been rereading "Jane Eyre" for an evening course that I've been taking at Stanford, and I'm quite impressed, again, by its feisty heroine. In more recent times, (due not in small part to the stirring film performance by Keira Knightley) Elizabeth Bennett has been lauded as an admirable heroine, and while I certainly do admire her, she is simply no Jane Eyre. Jane is not only independent and absolutely certain of her strength and character, she is of extremely tough and unshakeable moral fiber. Even from the very beginning of her life she was rather saucy. (Katie W)
Pat Berry writes a post for the
Brontë Parsonage Blog on how Yorkshire Day - July 29 - will be celebrated at the Parsonage.
And let's finish with one of our favourite quotes by Charlotte Brontë, as posted in
The Dartmouth Review:
I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward.
—Charlotte Bronte
Categories: Dance, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Theatre, Wuthering Heights
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