Brontë blood on paper

The Chicago Sun-Times summarizes the 2008 theatre and dance Chicago season. Two Brontë-related projects are listed:

The Dance COLEctive (Feb. 21-23; Dance Center of Columbia College) Choreographer Margi Cole presents "Written on the Body," a work that uses the lives of the Brontë sisters to explore gender roles and stereotypes. Call (312) 344-6600.

Brontë (March 20-May 4, Remy Bumppo Theatre) Poly Teale's drama brings the Bronte sisters -- Charlotte, Emily and Anne -- to life. Call (773) 871-3000.

We will return to these productions in due time.

Huliq informs about an upcoming exhibition in London's Victoria & Albert Museum: Blood on Paper: The Art of the Books (15 April - 29 June 2008). There's a Brontë connection.

Artists have reacted in different ways to the possibilities offered by books as a means of expression. Powerful interpreters of texts include Balthus and his dramatic illustrations for the narrative of Wuthering Heights.

C.A. Bridges in The Daytona Beach News predicts what the results of his new year's resolutions will be. One of them concerns us:

READ THE GREAT WORKS OF LITERATURE

Won’t even get past the first week with this one. Sorry, Dickens. Forget it, Bronte sisters. Not a chance, any Russian writer at all. As soon as the first hint of multi-layered prose hits my forebrain I’m outta there. I will, however, make a greater effort to watch more movies based on great works of literature.
That effort will fade away by mid-May, to be replaced with a half-hearted resolution to watch more "Simpsons" episodes that reference great works of literature.

So much time talking about the Byronic influence on Heathcliff's character sometimes causes some little misunderstandings:

Byron, who was the best known poet of his day, personified Romanticism at its brooding, Heathcliff-like best, living fast, dying young and having a good-looking corpse at the age of 36, in 1824. (Liverpool Daily Post)

On the blogosphere: Shelby's Drama List posts a brief comment on, and the trailer from, The Promise, last year's Filipino movie loosely based on Wuthering Heights. Mummy Loves British Costume Shows has a series of miniposts briefly describing several movie and TV adaptations of Jane Eyre. The Pink Heart Society discusses Jane Eyre 2006.

Yesterday the second part of Jane Eyre 2006 was aired in Sweden and a couple of Swedish blogs talk about it today: Språkmakargatan and Vad är det om. Today, January 4, and tomorrow, January 5, the series will be aired in Russia. At 19:30 PM in the Культура station.

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Dance, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Theatre, Wuthering Heights