Brontë in Kentucky

A new production of Polly Teale's Brontë opens this weekend in Louisville, Kentucky. The promotional poster is well... quite colourful:

Finnigan Productions Presents the Southeast Premiere of the play Brontë by Polly Teale.

Finnigan Productions presents the Southeast Premiere of the stage play Brontë by Polly Teale, running January 28, 29, February 4 & 5 at 7:30pm at The Rudyard Kipling, located at 422 W. Oak Street in Old Louisville. Brontë is the first play in Finnigan’s seventh season in Louisville.

Novelists. Recluses. Spinsters. The short, troubled lives of the Brontë sisters have become one of the great literary myths of all time. How is it possible that three women who had never been kissed, had never traveled and were virtually unschooled write some of the most passionate literature of all time? Living among the desolate Yorkshire moors with their drug addicted brother and distant father; Charlotte, Emily and Anne invented scores of gruesome, violent stories. Many of which remain bestsellers today.

Brontë examines how three women who lived in an era when females weren't permitted to enter a library could have authored some of the most passionate and popular fiction of all time. Brontë explores the private lives of Charlotte, Emily and Anne in a unique and intriguing way. It is an intermingling of fact and fiction, reality and fantasy. It is a startling portrayal and a sharp and sexy take on a talented but cursed family.

Brontë was developed by UK playwright, Polly Teale. Ms. Teale is the Joint Artistic Director of Shared Experience Theatre Company, which originally premiered Brontë in 2005. Her other credits include the play adaptation of Jane Eyre, and the original plays After Mrs. Rochester, Fallen, Now You See Me and What is Seized.

Brontë is directed by Louisville native and Finnigan company member Natalie Fields. Principally an actress, Natalie is an honors graduate from Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama and The Moscow Art Theatre. Her directing credits include: The Seagull, August Strindberg’s The Stronger, A Midsummer Nights Dream, How I Learned to Drive and Counting the Ways by Edward Albee. Natalie has also studied with the SITI Company and with Tadashi Suzuki.

The cast of Brontë includes George R. Bailey, Abby Braune, Elizabeth Cox, Sarah East, Natalie Fields, Joe Hatfield and Eric Welch.

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