A cancellation of a Jane Eyre in the making

Last Night the RTÉ1 programme The Late Late Show interviewed Andrea Corr, who will be playing Jane Eyre, adapted by Alan Stanford, in Dublin next November 9. The interview can be watched here (starting around 25 min 15 s). Apart from a promotional picture and some brief comments nothing very relevant about the production was said.

Bad news for the Jerry Williams's Jane Eyre. A Musical performances. The upcoming (November 5, 6 and 7) performances at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido have been cancelled:

The producers of "Jane Eyre" have announced that the musical's run at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, has been canceled.
The show, the latest stage adaptation of the classic Charlotte Brontë novel, had been scheduled to open a short run Nov. 5. But Griff Duncan, general manager of Orange County's FCLO Music Theatre (which produced the project and is just wrapping up its world-premiere run there), said that "dismal" advance ticket sales made the staging financially impractical.
Those already holding "Jane Eyre" tickets are advised to call the arts center at (800) 988-4253. (James Hebert in San Diego Union-Tribune)

The Times reviews the book Proust's Overcoat. The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust by Lorenza Foschini (illustrated by Eric Karpeles):

Literary relics are or aren’t interesting, depending on your point of view. The text should be the thing, and nothing else matters. Emily Brontë’s desk, Hemingway’s typewriter, William Burroughs’ heroin needles — these artefacts are the detritus of a life, a life support system for the disembodied brain.There’s something fetishistic about the effects of a dead author; we’re drawn and then repelled, sent back to the words, which are what count. (Linda Grant)

We wonder which Jane Eyre the author of this article in the New Zealand Herald has in mind:

The Karaka-based scream park is set in the blustery, Jane-Eyre-like surrounds of the old Kingseat Psychiatric Hospital. (Jacqueline Smith)

Probably a Jane Eyre reminiscent of Jane Eyre 1944 where Mr Brocklehurst was played by Henry Daniell. Varsity talks about his role in The Body Snatcher:

Neglected Henry Daniell, previously responsible for a terrifying Brocklehurst in Jane Eyre and a reptilian Moriarty in The Woman in Green emerges triumphant here. (James Swanton)

If you want to see the film (Jane Eyre 1944) next Wednesday there is a chance in Milwaukee:

She's a governess, he's the brooding master of the house - of course, they'll fall in love, or her name isn't "Jane Eyre."
In the atmospheric 1944 telling of Charlotte Brontë's romantic drama, Joan Fontaine is Jane and Orson Welles is the smoldering Mr. Rochester. You can see their torment, and triumph, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Charles Allis Art Museum, 1801 N. Prospect Ave. Admission is $5; $3 for seniors, students and veterans; and free to museum members and active members of the armed forces. (Chris Foran in the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel)

The Boston Phoenix reviews a local production of The Turn of the Screw. You know, when a governess is spotted, Jane Eyre has to be mentioned somehow:

At first, [Molly] Schreiber's governess basks in a naive glow of optimism. She isn't even suspicious of her employer's one peculiar request: never to "trouble" him with concerns about the children. Imagining herself a Jane Eyre in the making, she prepares to take on a motherly role at her new home, despite her lack of experience with children and domestic matters. (Maddy Myers)

The Sydney Morning Herald mentions once again Anne Rice's Brontëiteness:

Rice's interest in the gothic stems from a childhood spent reading Dickens, the Brontës and ghost stories from the New Orleans public library. (Emma Brockes)

The Arizona Republic describes Joanna Newsom's latest album quite graphically:

To truly grasp the magic of a Newsom album - whether in one sitting or installments - is to buy into that voice she worried she might lose, a quirky instrument that tends to occupy a range somewhere between Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" and Snow White huffing helium from a Mickey Mouse balloon. (Ed Masley)

The San Francisco Chronicle describes Orson Welles's Macbeth film like this:

Shooting low-budget in 1948 at Republic Pictures on the abandoned sets of Westerns, Welles envisioned "Wuthering Heights" meets "Bride of Frankenstein," and to help him achieve his expressionistic, shadowy horror-film look, he enlisted the services of cinematographer John L. Russell, who would later shoot "Psycho." (G. Allen Johnson)

El Pais's Babelia (Spain) carries an article about Halloween costumes with an allusion to Rochester's gyspy:

Y, por muy improbable que resulte, nosotros nos lo creemos y la novela funciona. En Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë disfraza al señor Rochester de gitana y consigue que nosotros (y los huéspedes de Thornfield) le sigamos la ocurrencia. (Manuel Rodríguez Rivero) (Microsoft translation)

La Voce d'Italia (Italy) about Coco Chanel:

Trasformò il "modesto" in "minimalista" e il "lineare" in "sofisticato". Lo stile campestre divenne urbano, quello maschile divenne femminile,
le tunichette che da bambina affamata riceveva in beneficenza dalle suore rinacquero sotto forma di tubino e la sua infanzia da Jane Eyre sfociò in una marcia trionfale, con un happy end privo di marito. (Agnese Bazzoni) (Microsoft translation)

L'Humanité reviews the latest book by Peter May, The Blackhouse, which is first published in its French edition (L’Île des chasseurs d’oiseaux):

Dans un décor qui évoque les grands romans anglais du XIXe, les Hauts de Hurle-Vent, d’Émily Brontë, comme les Trafiquants d’épaves, de Stevenson, parcourant des landes fantomatiques, gravissant des falaises vertigineuses, Fin Macleod ne sera pas long à comprendre que la clef de l’enquête risque d’ouvrir une porte derrière laquelle sont enfermés depuis longtemps des secrets qui le concernent directement. (Roger Martin) (Microsoft translation)

Le Monde and Il était une fois le cinema review the film Les Nuits de Sister Welch (2010):

Malheureusement, la direction d'acteurs de Jean-Claude Janer est trop approximative, et sa réalisation trop inscrite dans le premier degré pour nous embarquer, en dépit des clins d'œil à l'univers romantique des Hauts de Hurlevent et des sœurs Brontë, au Narcisse Noir de Michael Powell. (Jean-Luc Douin) (Microsoft translation)

Avec ses décors soignés de mers déchaînées, de falaises profondes et de ciels en flammes, évoquant "Les Hauts de Hurlevent" et l’imaginaire romantico-gothique anglo-saxon, ce film inclassable, mais pas déplaisant, aura toutefois du mal à trouver son public, sauf ceux qui aiment un cinéma qui dérange.  (...)
Ce n’est pourtant pas un énième film sur les ados boutonneux, Les Nuits de sister Welsh (à ne pas confondre avec Sister Act), avec ses décors soignés de mers déchaînées, de falaises profondes et de ciels en flammes, rappelle aussi les films qu’on adorait naguère et qui évoquaient les Hauts de Hurlevent et tout l’imaginaire romantico-gothique anglo-saxon. (Jean-Max Méjean) (Microsoft translation)

De Pers (Netherlands) talks about the Xbox 360 game Fable III:

En laat me raden, toen kwam je uit op een League of Extra-Ordinary Gentlemen-achtige wereld waarin goed en kwaad om voorrang vechten? Een wereld waarin mannen zich als Oscar Wilde-achtige dandy’s aan de dames in Jane Eyre-achtige hoepelrokken presenteren, waarin onze moderne tijd via koper-en-stoomtechnologie al aan de horizon gloort, maar nog precies genoeg op afstand wordt gehouden om ons niet aan moderne zorgen te herinneren? Origineel!  (Arjan Terpstra) (Microsoft translation)

Die Welt (Austria) compares the Brontës' imaginary worlds to Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow's family's:

Aber wie ein kurzes Menschenalter zuvor die Brontë-Schwestern hatten auch die Reventlow-Geschwister ein geheimes Fantasieland, das "Königreich Reharere", dessen Topografie und Geschichte die Ausstellung mit einigen Skizzen enthüllt. (Ulrich Baron) (Microsoft translation)

Several Hungarian news outlets talk about the release of a Hungarian edition of Jane Eyre (October 26) among the collection Pannon Lapok Társasága. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is scheduled for next December 7.

Clare B. Dunkle, author of The House of the Dead Maids, has a guest post on Cynsations; Blog de Bárbara and Nany's World (in Portuguese) and Sometimes you Jump post about Jane Eyre; Assembly posts the five book selection of Gayna Theophilus, editor and specialist in post-colonial literature, including Wide Sargasso Sea; Book Snare posts briefly about April Lindner's Jane. A German student who reads Charlotte Brontë in the Gießener Anzeiger.

Finally, the Brussels Brontë Blog publishes a long account with several pictures of their recent Annual Brussels Brontë Weekend events.

Categories: Brontëites, Brussels, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Music, References, Sequels, Theatre, Translations, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights