Jane Eyre by The Company of Ten

A new amateur production of Polly Teale's Jane Eyre opens today, April 16, in St. Albans, Hertforshire, UK:

The Company of Ten presents
Jane Eyre
16th-26th April 2008, 8:00 pm

The Abbey Theatre
Westminster Lodge
Holywell Hill, St. Albans
Herts. AL1 2DL.

The Passionate Quest

Jane, a penniless orphan, is left in the care of her vicious and unsympathetic Aunt Reed. Her defiant spirit is roused by her harsh treatment, and a passionate outburst leads to her consignment to a grim boarding school. Her determination enables her to become a teacher. Eventually she moves away to become a governess to the ward of the rich brooding owner of Thornfield Hall.
Mr Rochester, dark and sardonic, is fascinated by Jane's sharp wit and independence, and they fall in love. Violent events and dark secrets stand in the way of their union but the eventual resolution is as beautiful as it is unexpected.
Polly Teale's dramatisation has liberated Jane Eyre in a way that Charlotte Brontë could not. Her most inspired idea is to make ‘the mad woman in the attic' into an alter ego for Jane's passionate but repressed nature. This fast-paced vivid and exciting adaptation conjures up the fiery heart of the novel whilst retaining the strange and unforgettable atmosphere evoked by the power of the rare Brontë imagination . A5 poster (407KB jpg)

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