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Saturday, November 10, 2012

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An amateur production of Blake Morrison's piece We Are Three Sisters in Chester, UK:
Chester Theatre Club presents
We Are Three Sisters
by Blake Morrison

The Little Theatre, Chester
Saturday 10th November at 7:30pm
Monday 12th to Saturday 17th November at 7:30pm

This sensitive but unsentimental picture of the Brontë family – Charlotte, Emily, Anne, brother Branwell and father Patrick – has humour and pathos. Set in Haworth, the play shows literary ambitions conflicting with domestic reality. The three sisters’ novels were initially printed under pseudonyms; now Charlotte and Anne wish to be acknowledged as the true authors, though Emily is reluctant to be named as the author of Wuthering Heights. First produced by that creative and lively company, Northern Broadsides, this is a new play by Blake Morrison, loosely based on Chekhov’s Three Sisters, and all its characters - the doctor, the teacher, the curate, the adulterous wife, the elderly servant - would be equally at home in provincial Russia or provincial Yorkshire.
A theatre play exploring Charlotte Brontë and Emily Dickinson parallelisms in Saint Helena, Napa Valley, CA:
The Region of Bliss
A synchronicity between Charlotte Brontë and  Emily Dickinson

by Becca Smith

November 10, 11 Sat 8 pm & Sun, 4 pm | 2012
The White Barn, Saint Helena, CA
Daring excerpts from diaries, letters, and poetry, exploring shared perspectives on dutiful daughters, religion, human rights, and the passionate love objects that inspired their writing.

Brontë and Dickinson, whose published works from the eighteen hundreds have never been out of print, live in the collective imagination as mysterious, doomed creatures of attics and parsonage. Yet, Brontë wrote one of the greatest human rights love stories in the English language and Dickinson’s poetry defines the actions of the human heart with unmatched force of originality and confidence.

Script and Art Direction by Becca Smith (as Charlotte Brontë)
Poet Theresa Whitehill (as Emily Dickinson)
The St Helena Star has some more information:
The two writers were also what Smith characterizes as “thinking women,” who, despite living in a time when women had little or no public or private rights, believed themselves equal to men.
It was more the temper of the times that prompted Brontë and her two sisters, Emily and Anne, to adopt masculine pseudonyms for their books — Charlotte Brontë’s was Currer Bell.
The White Barn performance will use excerpts to unmask Brontë as “dutiful and excessively moral, isolated and angry, intellectually fierce, sardonic, ambitious and remarkably passionate,” Smith said.
Dickinson, her research discovered, emerges as “childish, coquettish and sassy, exuberant when healthy, a skilled and passionate gardener, baker and nurse, and one of the most original beings to emerge in the history of literature.”
Although they were isolated as much by geography as by their gender, the writers sustained themselves with a rich inner life, Smith said. There are definitely parts of Charlotte Brontë’s books that are “very, very steamy,” she said, “and Emily Dickinson, the same thing.” (Carolyn Younger)
At the 1st Conejo Valley Film Festival a chance to watch Wuthering Heights 1939:

Saturday, November 10th, 2012 from 8:00 am till Midnight at the CLU Preus-Brandt Forum
Hosted by the CLU Multimedia Program
California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA
4pm Classic Oldie, All Audiences - "Wuthering Heights" 1939 - Hollywood's Golden Years with Lawrence Olivier, shot behind CLU.
In Raleigh, North Carolina a student production of Jane Eyre:
Leesville High School
The Leesville Road High School Theatre Department will present Charlotte Brontë’s classic love story, Jane Eyre, from November 8-10 at 7:00 pm in the school auditorium.
And in Rome, Italy:
The Brontës and The Shelleys. Crafting Stories from LivesA Talk by Juliet Gael
November 10, 16.00
Keats-Shelley House, Rome

Janice Graham, writing as Juliet Gael, is the author of the critically acclaimed historical novel Romancing Miss Brontë, and is currently working on a follow-up novel that deals with the fascinating lives of the Shelleys.
Part literary reading, part discussion, and part work-in-progress seminar, Juliet will address the creative problems involved in romanticising the lives of authors, and will give us some tantalising
sneak previews into the process of writing her book about the Shelleys.
Everyone is welcome and the museum's normal standard entrance fee applies. Please call on 06 678 4235 or email info@keats to reserve a place. Otherwise just come along on Saturday the 10th of November, and enjoy some refreshments after!

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