A passionate and dramatic retelling of the Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece Jane Eyre will open at the Octagon Theatre in the new year.
The new adaptation of the Brontë classic by Janys Chambers and Lorna French, stars familiar faces and a young company
Returning to the Octagon Theatre in the iconic role of Jane Eyre is Jessica Baglow after her triumphant role of Rita in Educating Rita.
Playing her employer and lover interest Mr Rochester is Michael Peavoy, returning to the Octagon after his role as Gilbert Markham in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
Claire Hackett, from Line of Duty 2, ITV and Coronation Street, ITV, will make her debut at the Octagon as Mrs Reed and Mrs Fairfax. (...)
Artistic Director and director of Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Newman said: "Jane Eyre has always been one of my all-time favourite stories. It is beautiful. It explores independence in a world where people are often denied autonomy, even an opinion. It examines determination against all odds. It provides hope even in the most desolate situations. We can all learn a lot from Jane and from Mr Rochester, lessons in faith and love, courage and resolve, friendship and freedom.
"We are delighted to have Janys and Lorna creating a magnificent new adaptation of such an iconic, vibrant and intelligent story. We are all very excited to see this production come to life and are eager to share it with audiences both new and returning."
Jane Eyre plays at the Octagon Theatre Bolton from Thursday, January 18 to Saturday, February 10. (Saiqa Chaudhary)
Keighley News features
Lucy Powrie, Emily Brontë's young ambassador in next year's celebrations:
Teenage author and ‘vlogger’ Lucy Powrie has been enlisted by the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Emily Brontë’s birth.
She has been chosen for the new role of Brontë Society Young Ambassador and during 2018 she will present an online Brontë book club on YouTube.
As a vlogger Lucy presents a regular video blog via her YouTube channel, lucythereader.
She said: “I'm so excited to be working with the Brontë Parsonage Museum on the Brontë Book Club for Emily’s bicentenary celebrations.
“Hopefully it will encourage lots of young people to read the books for the first time, and fall in love with them just as I have." (David Knights)
Townhall discusses real (in their opinion) feminist goals as seen (again in their opinion) by the Brontës and Jane Austen:
If you want to see just how far gone many modern day feminists are consider the world of Jane Austen, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, in stark contrast to the whining tour of Hillary Clinton and her curIn the world of the Brontë sisters and Jane Austen, women were treated like second-class citizens, whose diminished economic opportunity stemmed from patriarchal inheritance laws, blocked access to education, and crushing societal expectations.
With potent pens, the authors illustrated that their heroines faced dire circumstances BECAUSE they were women.rent apologists. (...)
Women’s crushing pressures portrayed with Austen’s light touch become darker as the Brontë sisters, who suffered at the hands of their father, explore doom, loss and lack of choice. In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë writes a painful story of a girl who wants to make her own way, keeping her conscience clear, even as she loves the troubled, married Mr. Rochester. And who can forget Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, a tragic love story in which poverty and family crush the lives of Heathcliff and Catherine and the children that endure them. (Kristan Hawkins)
Broadway World presents the Dallas performances of the musical
Daddy Long Legs:
Based on the classic novel which inspired the 1955 movie starring Fred Astaire-a beloved tale in the spirit of Jane Austen, the Brontë Sisters, and "Downton Abbey"-this heartwarming Cinderella story about a witty and winsome young woman and her mysterious benefactor has charmed audiences of all ages from Los Angeles to London.
USA Today lists the best films of 2017:
"Lady Macbeth": Owing more to Brontë and Highsmith than to Shakespeare (in fact, the source is an 1865 novella by Russia's Nikolai Leskov), this rigorously grim moor noir presents its catalog of 19th century parricide, mariticide, infanticide and equine-cide as a consequences of a class and caste system that dehumanizes even those who materially benefit from its design. (John Beifuss)
Pasadena Star-News interviews film director Paul Thomas Anderson:
Q: Most of the film [Phantom Thread] takes place in one house, fortunately. It’s like a gothic romance, “Wuthering Heights” or “Rebecca,” exploded and reconfigured from the inside out. (Bob Strauss)
PTA: That idea of it being contained in one house was always on our mind. The downside of this is that it could become a filmed play. That’s not good, it becomes claustrophobic in a bad way and it just becomes kind of like f-ing “Masterpiece Theatre.” We were consciously trying not to do that, always tried to be aware of giving it some scope and some scale, getting outside enough. But at the same time you want to . . . like these great films we all love and were looking at, they’re tightening the screws and they’re staying within a house where the walls keep closing in. At its best, in our theories, it was gonna be that.
El Español (in Spanish) discusses pseudonyms in the case of the writer and Twitter user
barbijaputa:
Ahí Barbijaputa como las hermanas Brontë, como Jane Austen, como Mary Ann Evans, retrocediendo un par de siglos y escupiendo en la lucha de tantas feministas que se dejaron la vida para que hoy las mujeres sí podamos firmar lo que escribimos -aunque moleste-. (Lorena G. Maldonado) (Translation)
La Depeche (France) reviews the performances of
Tombés de la nuit in Colomiers:
Construit en un florilège des plus beaux textes patrimoniaux sur le thème de la nuit, découvrez le réveil de Gulliver, le mystérieux cauchemar de Jane Eyre... (Translation)
Xaluan (Vietnam) discusses the couple Catherine-Heathcliff.
Radio Angulo (Cuba) presents a Brontëite who reads
Wuthering Heights each November.
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books reviews
A Secret Sisterhood by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney.
Mis lecturas y más cositas (in Spanish) reviews
Jane Eyre.
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