You Are Passionate, Jane

One of the talks of the ongoing JASNA 2017 AGM in Huntington Beach, CA has caught our attention. A new chance to see

You Are Passionate, Jane
Author Diana Birchall portrays Brontë
Syrie James channels Austen
Thursday, October 5, 7:15 pm-8:00 pm

“Jane went to Paradise: That was only fair,” wrote Rudyard Kipling, and generations of readers have agreed with him.  Now, in You Are Passionate, Jane, Austen has been given the role of Gatekeeper in Heaven, deciding which other literary figures may pass through the pearly gates.  In the fullness of time, the newly deceased Charlotte Brontë is brought before her.  The two women are temperamental opposites, and, as Charlotte’s passionate life and works come under scrutiny, the literary sparks fly – upward!
Diana Birchall is a former story analyst for Warner Brothers Studios.  She is the author of Mrs. Darcy’s Dilemma and In Defense of Mrs. Elton, as well as a scholarly biography of her grandmother, Onoto Watanna, the first Asian American novelist.  Her Jane Austen-inspired plays have been celebrated around the country, in Canada, and at Chawton House Library.
Syrie James is the bestselling author of a number of critically acclaimed novels including The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen, The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen, Jane Austen’s First Love, and The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë.