"Yeah. We tore up that Brontë house, man."

The Guardian has an article on comedian Rob Newman's return to the TV screen. A funny anecdote concerning his life and the Brontës appears.

"We lived in fear of our tour manager Bobby as well," he adds. "He was very strict. We were near the Brontë museum once, and a friend of mine wanted to take me there, so I said I'd have to ask Bobby's permission, and she just couldn't believe this." The Brontë museum, eh? Keith Moon eat your heart out. "Yeah. We tore up that Brontë house, man." He laughs. (Leo Benedictus)

The Times has a quiz on Hannah's. Let's see if you can guess where the first Hannah belongs in:

Can you identify these characters named Hannah? In which books do they appear and who are the authors?
1 This old housekeeper to the late father of the clergyman St John Rivers at first refused entry, one winter night, to Jane, a starving girl, begging for bread. But when Jane was given sanctuary at Moor House, Hannah was kind. For 30 years she had acted like a mother to St John and his sisters. (Barbara Hall)

Argentinian newspaper La Nación reports the opening of a new stage version of Wuthering Heights, adapted and directed by Roberto Pieri. The cast: Gabriela Blanco, Roque Favale, Sebastián Morgan, Adrián Porra, Belén Pais, Carolina Echagüe, Paola Sanabria, Ricardo Murad y Camila Ozcoidi. (Picture Source). More information here.

If you have your diary for 2008 already, do take it out and write down the following dates:

8-30 March. According to Broadway World, the Guthrie Theatre has just announced a return of their successful Jane Eyre (featuring Stacia Rice) for those dates. Tickets are already on sale.

14 February - 2 March. A brand new adaptation of Jane Eyre by N.G. McClernan will be on stage at the 45th Street Theatre, New York. The official website is new too and doesn't have much information yet, but it will do soon hopefully.

And now for some blogs. Rainbow Fish looks at Jane Eyre's childhood. Eleanor's Blog has pictures of a recent trip to Scarborough. And a couple of reactions to Wuthering Heights: Something Leftish still doesn't like it the second time around and Leituras (in Portuguese) likes it.

Categories: Alert, Jane Eyre, Theatre, Wuthering Heights