Christmas Eve news

The Irish Times summarises the 2010 year in Irish theatre. The Gate Theatre's production of Jane Eyre is mentioned:

The Gate continued to excel (...). Jane Eyre rounded off the year with an enjoyable night of cosy winter theatre. (redframewhitelight)

The production is reviewed in The Munster Express:

There are at least seven pantos running in Dublin, Jane Eyre at The Gate has been packing them in and will run until the end of January. This Alan Stanford adaptation and direction is very faithful to Charlotte Brontë’s book and the clever marketing idea of casting Andrea Corr in the title role, is inspiring and effective. She assumes a plain, hair scraped back school-marm look but she radiates the inner confidence in the role.
It is not a story I particularly like, as the central character is such a subservient doormat in a novel that drags the more you read it.
Stephen Brennan as Mr Rochester is dominating but his sneer slips over into comedy a few times, especially when he got loud audience reaction.

The Yorkshire Post reviews the film Gulliver's Travels by Rob Letterman. The article begins like this:

The movie market place is littered with the desiccated shells of literary classics plundered for their riches by shallow producers looking for a fast buck. From William Shakespeare to Emily Brontë, the road is a long one. (Tony Earnshaw)

The Plymouth Herald has a curious story, a ten-year-old boy's letter to Santa Claus from ninety years ago. The letter was found after the death of its owner.

His son David said: "The letter sums up his character. He was a great reader. We had collections of Dickens and Brontë."

The Bradley Bunch posts about Wuthering Heights among other books; Querida Jane continues reading Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre in Spanish.

Categories: Jane Eyre, References, Theatre, Wuthering Heights