"Five Go Mad On the Yorkshire Moors"

The York Press reviews the Hull performances of Wuthering Heights.

Thornton’s fast and furious adaptation was premiered in 2003 with its distinctive format of an omnipresent cast of five. In 2007, it died a death at the hands of director Sue Dunderdale in unquestionably the worst repertory production of the past decade at York Theatre Royal, a ribald show more doomed than the lovers.
Now Mr and Mrs Godber are giving it the chance to rise from the grave, still as Five Go Mad On the Yorkshire Moors, and with the USP of a “host of TV faces performing an iconic Yorkshire love story”. [...]
Once they have entered in a portentous babble of overlapping voices – dressed as if for a Mummers’ play – the five never leave the stage (save for the interval). Godber’s intense production takes the form of a piece of storytelling, not far removed from the reportage style of Greek drama, with initially brief flurries of heightened drama that gradually grow longer, less stilted and more brutal as the night progresses.
This is typically economical and brisk theatre in Hull Truck tradition but it struggles to build up a head of dramatic steam in the first half. Meanwhile, the use of the cast for sound effects has a collective impact, unlike the stylised, no-contact violence that is too humorously redolent of a touring Victorian melodrama.
“There is a lot of death and illness in the play and we need to get that across,” says Godber. “The relationships, the way that people are with each other, is also very harsh. In that way, the text is very modern.”
Carbolic soap opera, you might say, but alas Wuthering Heights still doesn’t hit the heights. (Charles Hutchinson) (Read the full review here).

AboutMyArea has a Jane Eyre-inspired short story called After Jane Eyre, written by Mike Horgan.

PopWatch describes Johnny Knoxville's 14-year-old daughter as follows:

So if Jackass director Jeff Tremaine dares to douse her with a spray hose, then she will retaliate by getting another one of her father’s idiot friends to piss in the man’s beer. And something tells me this child is reading Jane Eyre or doing complicated math equations in her room while those jackasses snicker over Tom & Jerry reruns. (Karen Valby)

And finally we can't help but mention a guest post on England and the Brontës that we contributed to the Passport feature of Paperback Dolls.

Categories: Fiction, Jane Eyre, Messages from BB, Theatre, Wuthering Heights