Familiar horses and wimps

First of all, an item of interest for anyone in the Chichester (UK) area. As the Chichester Observer reports,

Chichester Festival Theatre have teamed up with the Chichester Observer to offer free sets of tickets to a couple of shows coming up.
The CFT are offering four pairs of tickets for Circus Of Horrors on Friday November 7 and also three pairs of tickets for Wuthering Heights plus programmes on Wednesday November 12.
Simply email your name, address and day-time telephone number to ents@chiobserver.co.uk, putting either Circus Of Horrors or Wuthering Heights in the subject line. Or write to Circus Of Horrors or Wuthering Heights, c/o Phil Hewitt, Chichester Observer, Unicorn House, Eastgate Square, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1JN. The closing date for the Circus Of Horrors is midnight on Nov 4; for Wuthering Heights it is midnight on Nov 9.

Good luck to any readers entering the contest! The Wuthering Heights production is the April de Angelis's adaptation recently premiered in Birmingham. It will be performed at the Chichester Festival Theatre in November 12, 13, 14 and 15. More information here.

The Times comments on the the BBC's Little Dorrit and for some silly reason this passing mention made us laugh:

Even the horses and their driver look familiar: from Jane Eyre, I think. (Andrew Billen)

To keep things screen-related, John Farr from The Huffington Post chooses the best under-exposed horror movies. One of them is I Walked with a Zombie:

"Zombie" [is] a stand-out, due to its sublimely creepy atmosphere, a literate script (reputedly based on "Jane Eyre"!), and charismatic turns by both the gorgeous Dee and Conway.

The Orange County Registers reviews a local production of the play The Heiress (1947).

We're not used to seeing female characters this icily remorseless in an era of frills and petticoats. Compared to "The Heiress'" Catherine Sloper, the creations of the Brontë sisters are wimps. (Paul Hodgins)

Given that 1947 marked the exact 100th anniversary of the publication of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey we find it quite a sweeping, void, ignorant statement to make. Even if the play is set in the 1850s, even if it's based on Henry James's Washington Square (1880), the mindset of the playwrights in 1947 was radically different to that of the Brontë sisters when they created their 'wimps'.

Music OMH describes singer Seth Lakeman as follows:

Anyone who thought the Dartmoor-based folkster a latter-day Heathcliff would knowingly nod. From the mystical wilds known to urban types as 'the countryside' comes the romantic hero, the better to brighten days. (Michael Hubbard)

If you say so.

Our fellow site, the Dutch Brontës.nl reports a recent survey whose results were:

Brontës.nl made the call at the end of August when visitors to its Bol.com to vote for the best English book of all time. Charlotte and Emily found not to have scored poorly: Jane Eyre ended at number 6, Wuthering Heights is at number 9. It will not be a surprise that the list is topped by the Lord of the Rings trilogy. What is remarkable is that Jane Austen does it better than JK Rowling. Her Pride and Prejudice is on the second place, followed by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The entire top 25 can be found here. (Google translation)

And finally fragilidad has created a Jane Eyre 2006 wallpaper.

Categories: Jane Eyre, Theatre, Weirdo, Wuthering Heights