Lighting Glitches

London Pub Theatres reviews Infernal. A Brontë Story as performed in London:

Infernal, written and directed by Harry Harding brings audiences into the imagined life of the inhabitants of the Bronte Parsonage where this talented and creative family lived together on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors. It’s clear which sister is which because Charlotte Brontë – played with stern forbearance by Katie Hart looks like a school governess with wire rimmed spectacles. (She wrote Jane Eyre about a school governess.) Emily, meanwhile, played by Lillie Prowse spends the entire play barefoot like the free and wild Cathy of her eponymous gothic novel. (...)

Directorially and technically, there are some jarring moments. The scramble of words in the opening voiceover was almost impossible to hear and decipher. One assumes these were Branwell’s words, but these were unfortunately lost in the ether. The interminable apple peeling scene that opens the play was beyond mediative and became an endurance test as audiences waited for the action to ‘start’. There were some lighting glitches where changes seemed to happen for no reason and the use of music was sometimes intrusive and relied on too heavily to convey emotional weight. Hopefully, some of these things might be ironed out with further development in this promising homage to the Brontë sisters and their forgotten brother. (Nilgün Yusuf )

The Brainerd Dispatch writes about The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins 

The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins has been on my to-be-read list for a while. I didn’t know anything about the story but had gotten it from someone as a recommendation.
While choosing it for my next audiobook, I learned two things. The first is that it’s a retelling of one of my all-time favorite books — “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë. I haven’t read any other adaptations of the classic novel, so I immediately got even more excited. (Theresa Bourke)

BookRiot posts about the Victorian England-Set Gothic Fantasy feel like Part Jane Eyre, Part Fairytale:

Donyae Coles knows her way around a creepy, gothic story. From the outset, Midnight Rooms feels like part Jane Eyre and part fairytale. Orabella frequently finds herself in a fever dream-like state. She often feels overwhelmed by fatigue and a strange feeling of forgetfulness, evoking the imagery of a frail Victorian woman who becomes overcome by excitement. (Kendra Winchester)

The Washington Post reviews the film It Ends with Us, directed by Justin Baldoni:

Yet, as a director, Baldoni is even more of a seducer than his own paper-perfect character. He knows that wounded, brooding sex symbols like Ryle are an irresistible erotic trope stretching from Jane Eyre’s Mr. Rochester to “Fifty Shades of Grey’s” pommel-horse-riding billionaire Christian Grey. (Amy Nicholson)