I felt Jane was alive and in the room with me

The Brontë Prize winners have been announced. These are the nominations and winners of the 2010 edition:

Romantic Fiction

The Life O'Reilly by Brian Cohen

• Conquer All Obstacles; Jo-Anne Vandermeulen
• Homesong; Misha Crews
• Mangroves and Monsters; Sharon C. Pennington

Women's Fiction

Left in His Closet by Dr. Mary A. Krome

• A Time to Tell; Maria Savva
• Daughter of Mine; Laura Fabiani
• Miles to Go; Laurel-Rain Snow
  

The Utah Theater Bloggers Association reviews the Salt Lake City production of Jane Eyre. The Musical:

I spent that evening with Cast B of Spotlight Productions’ current production of Jane Eyre in the Rose Wagner black box. I was skeptical at first, thinking a musical of this size and scope needed a larger proscenium, but the production fits well in the black box; there is even room for a live, six-member orchestra at stage left. The theatre also made it possible for the audience to have more of an intimate experience; Jane was close and real, instead of a distant dot on a huge proscenium stage.
As Jane, Brittany Bullen does some very nice work. Her speaking voice has a wonderful quality of warmth and familiarity to it; I felt Jane was alive and in the room with me. Bullen’s singing voice is lovely, and her performance is a solid foundation on which to build a show; I willingly followed her through the highs and lows of Jane’s story. Bullen is accompanied by a number of strong voices: Kirk Stapley’s enigmatic Mr. Rochester and Marie Bentley’s Blanche Ingram, just to name a couple. The vocal blending on stage was definitely a highlight for me, a difficult feat with such a large cast — such a large cast! — all on stage at once. (Read more) (Melissa Leilani Larson)

The Moberly Monitor-Index & Democrat insists on the Brontë-Twilight connections:

Each of the “Twilight” books was inspired by and loosely based on different literary classics; Twilight on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, New Moon on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Eclipse on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Breaking Dawn on a second Shakespeare plan, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. (Beverly Holden)

The Janesville Gazette highlights Wuthering Heights 1939:

WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte (I like the 1939 Laurence Olivier version … but there have been many updates … still the black and white version is so brooding … love that) (Jamie Swenson)

Time-Out Chicago mentions Sherri Browning Erwin's Jane Slayre. A Muse Sings is reading Wuthering Heights (now in Chapter 2), Ellinky (in Czech) posts some scans of a National Trust Magazine number (Autumn 2006) which included the Jane Eyre 2006 shooting at Belton House. Backchat Girls Reviews! posts about Kay Woodward's Jane Airhead, Les Brontës à Paris (in French) fictionalises an evening at the Black Bull with Branwell Brontë. Brontëana1 has uploaded several Haworth YouTube videos. Check them out here.

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