Jane in Wales and Sylvia in Yorkshire

Two alerts for today, May 11:

1. Gordon & Caird's Jane Eyre: The Musical in Ebbw Vale, Wales

Ebbw Vale Operatic & Dramatic Society

Our 2009 production is the Welsh Premiere of
JANE EYRE

11 - 16th May 2009 at the Beaufort Theatre
Tickets £8/£7 concessions

For tickets contact Pat 01495 350175 or Joy on 01495 303794
Producer Craig James
Musical Director Lynda Maddy

Ebbw Vale & District Operatic and Dramatic Society is based in Ebbw Vale in the South Wales Valleys. Founded in 1973, we have gained an enviable reputation for the high quality musical productions which we stage at the Beaufort Theatre Ebbw Vale. All productions are entirely produced, cast and staged using local people, and we are always keen to meet anyone who would like to become involved with us, whether backstage or treading the boards.

2. A poetical alert to be watch in BBC4 devoted to Sylvia Plath with special mention to Sylvia Plath and Emily Brontë connections:

A Poet's Guide To Britain Ep 2/6

Broadcasts:
Mon 11 May 2009 20:30
Tue 12 May 2009 02:15
Thu 14 May 2009 22:00
Fri 15 May 2009 03:05
Fri 15 May 2009 19:30

Poet and author Owen Sheers presents a series in which he explores six great works of poetry set in the British landscape. Each poem explores a sense of place and identity across Britain and opens the doors to captivating stories about the places and the lives of the poets themselves.
Sylvia Plath is one of the most popular and influential poets of recent history but her poetry is often overshadowed by her life - the story of her marriage to Ted Hughes, her mental health problems and her tragic suicide at the age of 30.
A rich and important area of her work that is often overlooked is the wealth of landscape poetry which she wrote throughout her life, some of the best of which was written about the Yorkshire moors.
Sheers explores this rich seam, which culminated in a poem called Wuthering Heights. It takes its title from Emily Bronte but the content and style is entirely Plath's own remarkable vision of the forbidding Pennine landscape.
Sheers visits the dramatic country around Heptonstall where the newly-married Plath came to meet her in-laws, a world of gothic architecture and fog-soaked landscapes, where the locals have a passion for ghost stories that connect directly with the tales that were told in the kitchen of the Bronte parsonage.
His journey eventually leads out onto the high moors and the spectacular ruin known as Top Withens. Here amongst the wind and sheep 'where the grass is beating its head distractedly', Plath found the material for some of her most impressive writing.

Credits
Key talent: Owen Sheers
Director: Rupert Edwards
Producer: Rupert Edwards
Executive Producer: Fiona Morris

The programme will be available for UK viewers on BBC iplayer for a month.

Categories: Audio-Radio, Jane Eyre, Music, Poetry, Theatre