Wuthering Heights on demand

WhatsOnStage announces that Wise Children's Wuthering Heights will be available on demand at the end of this month.

Emma Rice's hit adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is set to be released online for a 48-hour on demand period. [...]

The show was previously broadcast live from the Bristol Old Vic from 4 to 6 November. The new 48-hour on demand window runs from 7pm (GMT) on Friday 26 November until 7pm (GMT) on Sunday 28 November. (Tom Millward)

The Austin Chronicle looks into how the pandemic has affected local theatre.

When the pandemic reached Austin in March 2020, all plans were off. Austin Playhouse was a week into rehearsals for their production of Paula Vogel's Indecent, and the cancellation left the theatre dark and directionless. The idea of virtual theatre was alien to Toner Haddock, who admitted she grew up thinking that theatre was theatre, and that it couldn't exist on the screen. "Then I watched the National Theatre's production of Jane Eyre [and] it was one of the most moving theatrical experiences I've ever had." (Richard Whittaker)

Women's mental health and literature are discussed on Palatinate.

 This attitude is also evident within the portrayal of females who have struggled with these issues in popular culture, from the pages of novels like Jane Eyre, the real experiences of Zelda Fitzgerald, to the tragedy of Sylvia Plath.

This portrayal stems from a long-time association between women and madness; the word hysteria itself stems from the Greek word for uterus. In the 1800s hysteria was a diagnosable illness and was based on the idea that women are predisposed to mental conditions. This is evident within 19th century literature. Many will be familiar with the twist of Charlotte Brontë’s novel, Jane Eyre, where it is revealed that Rochester has his mad wife hidden away in the attic. The classification of her as mad silences her voice as a character, and the reader is exposed only to Jane and Rochester as victims in the situation. This dismissal of the mad woman persists today and silences many female voices. This trope that Brontë’s novel helped to create was dismantled in Jean Rhys’ 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea. This post-colonial feminist story gives Bertha a narrative, and at last sets her character free from the attic. Though this take on the story subverted the traditional depiction of female madness, it remains true that women’s ideas are often regarded as insane or irrational, and alongside this, genuine mental health issues are trivialised as a woman’s scornful voice. (Abi Akerman)

Spectator asks several reviewers to pick the books they have enjoyed the most this year.

Frances Wilson

Given that you can put anything you like in a novel, said D.H. Lawrence, why do we go on putting in the same thing? Why, he asked, is the vol-au-vent always chicken? Alison MacLeod has put everything she has found in the cupboard into Tenderness (Bloomsbury, £18.99), her big, bold book about Lady Chatterley’s Lover. On the one hand she has produced a meticulously researched account of the birth and afterlife of Lawrence’s last novel, and on the other she has reconstructed the imagination that went into Lawrence’s big, bold book. This is a vol-au-vent in which Lawrence, Jacqueline Kennedy, J. Edgar Hoover and Lionel Trilling all provide the filling, and it will change forever the way we read Lady Chatterley, in the same way that Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea changed Jane Eyre.

Vogue (Spain) interviews poet Noelia Cortés.

¿Sentiste de niña que te faltaron referentes?

NC: Sí. No puedo evitar sentir de que todas las escritoras que me han gustado han sido de alguna manera un poco injustas con las mujeres gitanas. Me encanta Cumbres borrascosas, de Emily Brontë, es de mis novelas favoritas, pero aún así repite todo el tiempo que Heathcliff parece un gitano sucio. En Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë, también el hombre se disfraza de una gitana adivina. Incluso en las novelas más progresistas de la época, que hoy son símbolos, hay racismo con las personas gitanas. Me hubiese encantado descubrir, siendo más pequeña, que existían escritoras gitanas como Papusza. (Alba Correa) (Translation)

Rolling Stone (Germany) interviews singer Michelle Zauner.

Was war das letzte richtig gute Buch, das du gelesen hast?

Ich habe „Jane Eyre“ zum ersten Mal gelesen und habe es wirklich genossen. (Translation)

Jane Eyre 2011 and To Walk Invisible make it onto a list of 'movies like Little Women' put together by Scary Mommy. A young student who is an admirer of Emily Brontë and loves Wuthering Heights on EPTV (Brazil). There's a review of Wuthering Heights on The Penned Sleuth. Finally, the Podcast Postcript episode on chapter 5 of Jane Eyre is now available.