With... Adam Sargant
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It's our last episode of series 1!!! Expect ghost, ghouls and lots of
laughs as we round off the series with Adam Sargant, AKA Haunted Haworth.
We'll be...
4 months ago
"FOR sheer controlled discipline on a conventional stage, managing a complex two-tier set, aerial work, dance work, wandering musicians and the most convincing collapsing set I can remember, when Rochester's Gothic pile at Thornfield Hall burns down, Perth Theatre's back stage team did a brilliant job."Another Jane Eyre adaptation, the forthcoming one directed by Cary Fukunaga is mentioned by Metropolis - a The Wall Street Journal blog - on a post about
PencilPALs, a program of the Screen Actors’ Guild in partnership with the Writers’ Guild of America East Foundation, which matches Janine Esposito’s fifth graders in the Gifted & Talented program at P.S. 16 with well-known writers like Nora Ephron, Elisa Zuritsky, and “Brokeback Mountain” screenwriter James Schamus. PencilPALs started in a Florida school in 2002, aiming to inspire students to love reading and letter-writing in an increasingly digital world. (Joy Resmovits)What's particularly interesting is this:
Some students got an inside look at professional writing. Schamus says his pen pal had the chance to see his Feature Focus group’s writing process. “I sent her pages of a screenplay we’re making here based on ‘Jane Eyre’,” he says. “That book caught my attention in fifth grade.” (Joy Resmovits)Ah, to be that penpal!
There would be no triumphant: “Reader, I married him” for today’s Jane Eyre, who would surely deem that Rochester had “issues”, sleep with him, but not hostage her fortune to him. (Hannah Betts)And here were we all claiming Jane Eyre to be such a modern character, oblivious to the whole SAS philosophy! Oh well, we really don't think Jane Eyre would have agreed with that way of life. Besides, she would have been denied entry to the club for being just 'plain', anyway.
Although geographically at odds with Emily Brontë’s original setting, the ancient kingdom of Northumbria feels like real Wuthering Heights country with its dramatic skies, rolling grasslands and sweeping, deserted sands. (Caroline Sargent)For Folk's Sake describes the look of a music duo (Bitter Ruin) as follows:
From a quick look at Bitter Ruin’s myspace it is hard to tell whether the boy/girl duo are trying to sell records or audition for the leads in a local production of Wuthering Heights. Ultimately, one concludes, either would be acceptable. From the gothic press shots that pepper the page to the lavishly theatrical nature of songs like Trust, there is something refreshingly histrionic about this band. (Ian Parker)And Scotland on Sunday, on the subject of sisters imagines what the Brontë sisters would have been like on a day-to-day basis:
It was ever thus with sisters. Charlotte Brontë surely admired Wuthering Heights, but great genius aside, I bet she found Emily's habit of copying the way she tied her bonnet, like, so annoying. (Chitra Ramaswamy)It's even worse than the writer supposes, as Charlotte Brontë decided to clear her sister's reputation by criticising her masterpiece publicly.
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