The Shared Experience Company in co-production with The Watermill Theatre presents a revival of its production of Polly Teale's Brontë in Newbury, Berskshire:
The Watermill Theatre in association with Shared Experience
Brontë
by Polly Teale, directed by Nancy Meckler
Designer – Ruth Sutcliffe
Lighting Design – Tim Lutkin
Music – Peter Salem
Movement Director – Liz Ranken
Assistant Director – Tom Hughes
Thu 15 Apr - Sat 22 May
Performance times
Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Thursday and Saturday matinees at 2.30pm
(please note there is no matinee performance on Thursday 16 April)
Saturday 22 May performances at 1.30pm and 6.30pm
Constrained by their background and their sex, three girls grow up in an isolated parsonage on the Yorkshire moors with an overbearing father and a brother unable to cope with the weight of his family’s expectations. Against this backdrop, the Brontë sisters write novels and create powerful and passionate characters that have ensured their place in our literary history. Heathcliffe, Cathy Earnshaw, Arthur Huntingdon and the first Mrs Rochester come to life as the sisters’ story unfolds. Brontë is a fascinating glimpse into the life, mind and works of this extraordinary family.
An exciting opportunity for you to see a production that was a sell-out success when it toured in 2005, presented by two renowned, award-winning producers of theatre, The Watermill and Shared Experience.
Brontë is directed by Nancy Meckler and written by co-Artistic Director of Shared Experience, Polly Teale, whose previous plays for the company include the highly-acclaimed Jane Eyre and After Mrs Rochester which both transferred to the West End.
Details of the rehearsals can be read
here or on the
Watermill's Theatre Facebook.
Categories: Theatre
The Shared Experience Company in co-production with The Watermill Theatre presents a revival of its production of Polly Teale's Brontë in Newbury, Berskshire:
Oh I would so very much like to see this! I missed it first time round, but I don't think I'll be able to make it to the Watermill... do you think it'll tour?
ReplyDeleteNo I'm afraid it's not touring.
ReplyDeleteThis is a phenomenal show. I defy even the hardest hearts to not be moved by this bittersweet masterpiece. This plays follows the Bronte family's story, from its charming beginning to its devastating end, all the while ingeniously tying in the sisters' imaginary worlds with the real one they inhabited. The characters' mutual love and conflict, hope and ambition, pride and jealousy, and grief and despair, reach deep into the viewer and wrench out the heart. A definitive cast, inspired design, haunting music, and the heartbreaking poetry and conceits of the script come together to form a production which should stay with you for the rest of your life.
ReplyDeleteFive stars. Please go and see it!