Brontë in Fresno

A student production of Polly Teale's Brontë opened yesterday March 16 at the California State University in  Fresno:
Picture Source:

Cary Edmondson /Special to The Bee

Alyssa Garvin (Cathy) and Aaron McGee (Heathcliff).

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Brontë
Polly Teale
Directed by Ruth Griffin
March 16 - 24, 2012  8:00 PM (except March 18, 2:00 PM)

The Fresno Bee says something more about the production:

Griffin describes it as combining text-based theater with such devices as dance, mask work and puppetry. In "Brontë," Griffin uses a variety of dance and movement to cater to the imagination of the audience. For example, when the sisters discuss the industrialization of the time -- one of the play's themes -- their movements take on a mechanized quality. (...)
The structure: Griffin describes it as post-modern. "I think of it as a photographic album -- you're looking at images, then you turn a page, and, wham, you're somewhere else," she says. "But there is a reason to the madness. There is a structure to how you're moved through time."
The production design: A stylized period set is inspired by the famous hearth at the Brontë parsonage at Haworth, England. The three women are wearing custom corsets, because Griffin felt it was important to show the kind of confinement women felt in their culture.
Why this play? "I felt I needed to do a play where there was a soul I could really resonate with," Griffin says. "I'm deeply moved by the Brontës. It's reinvigorated my love of romanticism, of the kind of reach for eternity within a romantic poem." (Donald Munro)

Read more here: http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/03/15/2762812/bronte-brilliance.html#storylink=cpy

Read more here: http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/03/15/2762812/bronte-brilliance.html#storylink=cpy