The Radlett Centre
Withering Looks
28th January
The Curve, Leicester
Withering Looks
7th February
Bedford Corn Exchange
http://www.bedfordcornexchange.co.uk/
Withering Looks
8th February
The Donut Chesterfield
Withering Looks
8th March
International Women's day event
Leeds City Varieties
Withering Looks
9th March
Square Chapel, Halifax
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10th March
Georgian Theatre, RichmondWithering Looks
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Kendal Brewery Arts Centre
Withering Looks
17th March
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Categories: Humour, TheatreCygnet ProductionsWithering Looks: An Entertaining Evening With the Brontë Sisters
A Very Silly, Yet Quite Literate, Romp Through the Lives and Letters of the Authors of “Jane Eyre” and “Wuthering Heights”
Luisa SERMOL
Vana O’BRIEN
Directed by Louanne MOLDOVAN
Cygnet Theatre, Portland’s literary cabaret since 1992, presents Withering Looks, a frothy, irreverent homage to Charlotte and Emily Brontë, their eccentric family, their classic, beloved romantic novels, and the heather on the moors. Beginning April 22, this arch comedy asks—and answers—such questions as:
Who is the Brontës’ mysterious neighbor, Mr. Moorcock of Ravaged Heath House, and what does the maniacal laughter coming from his attic mean?
Is Anne Brontë really only 2’6” tall?
Who should Cathy marry, Heathcliff or David Niven?
Withering Looks was written by Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding of the Manchester, England Lip Service Theatre company. It won a Critics Award for Comedy at the Edinburgh Festival.
Withering Looks pairs two of Portland’s favorite actresses, long-time Cygnet company members Vana O’Brien and Luisa Sermol, and is directed by Louanne Moldovan, founder and artistic director of Cygnet. Comments Luisa Sermol: “I was an English lit major, and felt a kinship with the Brontës. With Withering Looks I get to bring my fascination full circle, I get to be playful with it—and I get to play with Vana!" Adds Vana O’Brien, “This is the silliest thing we’ve ever done, it’s very light-hearted. That droll British wit, y’know...good for the digestion of scones."Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays 7:30 pm, April 22–May 9
TaborSpace Coffee House, 5441 SE Belmont
Suggested donation $15, or $8 for students and seniors
Reservations: 503-230-8827
That's the title of Angela Crow's new book that is presented today, May 18, at the Daphne DuMaurier Festival:Date: Friday 18th May 2007Some hours later in Pershore,Worcestershire, another rendez-vous. A new performance of Lip Service's Withering Looks:
Time: 14:00(Doors open: 13:30)
Venue: Fowey Town Hall, Town Quay, Fowey, Cornwall
Actress Angela Crow, a familiar face on television (Casualty, Heartbeat, The Royal) returns to the Festival to talk about her book, 'Miss Branwell's Companion', launched here today, then on sale at Bookends bookshop.
For Bronte fans, here is a chance to find out about the mother of the famous sisters, who shocked Victorian society with their books, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Their intrepid mother made the hazardous journey from Penzance to Yorkshire in 1812, never to see her native Cornwall again.
Number 8 Community Arts CenterCategories: Biography, Books, Brontëana, Humour, Talks, Theatre
8 High Street, Pershore, Worcestershire
Withering Looks
Performed by LipService
Friday 18th May - 7.30pm
Running time: 140mins inc. interval)
LipService, Britain’s favourite literary lunatics are 21 this season! As part of their celebrations, Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding reprise their cult Bronte spoof Withering Looks. As it is the anniversary of the death 150 years ago of Charlotte Bronte, LipService could hardly turn down the opportunity to dust off their crinolines, wear flattering bonnets and sit at rained-lashed windows in a pale and decorative manner. Withering Looks takes an “authentic” look at the lives and works of the Bronte sisters – well, two of them actually, Anne’s just popped out for a cup of sugar. Peopled with many of the characters we know and love, and some quite frankly that LipService have made up, Withering Looks is irreverent and a theatre treat savour. Withering Looks has won a Manchester Evening News award and the Critics Award for Comedy at the Edinburgh Festival.
Gordon & Caird's Jane Eyre. The Musical is being performed these days at the Royal Academy of Music (Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London) in London:Photo: Rob Halliday (Source). More pictures here.Jane Eyre
by Paul Gordon, John Caird
Company: Royal Academy of Music Venue: Sir Jack Lyons Theatre Director: Matthew Ryan Set Designer: Nigel A Hook Lightning Designer: Rob Halliday Sound Designer: Mike Walker Opens: 18 June 2007 Closes: 24 June 2007
Lip Service presentMore information about Lip Service's Withering Looks on previous posts of ours.
Withering Looks
Saturday 23rd June 2007 at Wakefield Theatre Royal
LipService, Britain’s favourite literary lunatics, reprise their cult Bronte spoof Withering Looks and could hardly turn down the opportunity to dust off their crinolines, wear flattering bonnets and sit at rained-lashed windows in a pale and decorative manner.
Withering Looks takes an “authentic” look at the lives and works of the Bronte sisters – well, two of them actually, Anne’s just popped out for a cup of sugar.
Peopled with many of the characters we know and love, and some quite frankly that LipService have made up, Withering Looks is irreverent and a theatre treat to savour. Withering Looks has won a Manchester Evening News award and the Critics Award for Comedy at the Edinburgh Festival.
Withering Looks
A radio adaptation of Withering Looks by the LipService Theatre Co. by Robert A Portland’s Cygnet Productions flips the story on its head with Withering Looks, a humorous radio-hour satire developed as a stage play by Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding of England’s LipService Theatre. While heavily focused on the lives of the Brontë sisters and their works, this vivacious rendition, streaming free of charge through Jan. 31, is both relatable and easy to follow for fans and novices alike.
Luisa Sermol and Vana O’Brien play sisters Charlotte and Emily Brontë in Cygnet Radio Hour’s “Withering Looks.” Photo by: Mike O’Brien, courtesy Cygnet Productions
Withering Looks satirizes and anatomizes the story “in the name of both feminism and fun,” making the obvious even more obvious and thereby bringing hilarity to some otherwise overall rich. (Amy Leoman Hanis on Oregon Artswatch)
Some months ago we already posted about Withering Looks, a parody of the Brontës by the comic duo LipService. It seems that this duo is celebrating its 21st anniversary touring around England with Withering Looks.
LipService is still touring Withering Looks around the UK:Nailsworth Festival
Withering Looks
25th May
From 7.30 pm
At Town Hall GL6 0JF
Harrogate Theatre
Withering Looks
13th July
Coliseum, Oldham
Withering Looks
Tuesday 16 – Saturday 20 October
LipService Theatre is touring the UK with several productions, including Withering Looks. Yesterday they had to cancel the show (you know #beastfromtheeast), but not today (fingers crossed):Withering LooksAnd in SUNY Orange County (New York)
Harrogate Theatre2nd March, 7:30 PM
Nailsworth Festival25th May
Britain's favourite literary lunatics, are back with their cult Brontë spoof Withering Looks. In the 200th anniversary year of Emily's birth, the classic comic duo, Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding, just couldn't resist the urge to dust off their crinolines, wear flattering bonnets and sit at rained-lashed windows in a pale and decorative manner. Don't miss the chance to share in the silliness too!
Withering Looks takes an 'authentic' look at the lives and works of the Brontë sisters... well, two of them actually, Anne's just popped out for a cup of sugar. Peopled with many of the characters we know and love, Maggie and Sue move effortlessly from frock to frock coat.
Film critic Jeffery Lyons, a five-time NY Emmy Award winner, will be on the Newburgh campus at 6:30 p.m. March 2 to discuss his life, career, and memories of revered actor Orson Welles. The talk is free and open to the public. It will be in Aquinas Hall Theatre on the main campus in Newburgh. Doors open at 6 p.m
The event will include a special 75th anniversary screening of the 1943 film, “Jane Eyre,” in which Welles plays the leading man opposite Joan Fontaine. Doors open at 6 p.m. The lecture was made possible by the Mount’s Samuel D. Affron Memorial Lecture Series and the Affron family. (Times Herald-Record)
Pocklington Arts Centre (PAC) favourites LipService Theatre will present a live stream of their award-winning comedy Withering Looks as part of the venue’s ongoing series of online events in lockdown. (...)This latest performance piece by ‘Britain’s favourite literary lunatics’, commissioned by the Brontë Parsonage Museum, sees LipService Theatre perform scenes from Withering Looks which were “filmed in the actual parsonage where the Brontë sisters wrote their actual books actually!”This online event, streamed via Zoom on Thursday, April 22 at 7.30pm, will feature additional material filmed in, and around Haworth village, and on the wild and windswept moors in sub-zero temperatures.Withering Looks explores a day in the life of the Brontë sisters (well two of them, Anne’s just popped out for a cup of sugar) and in true Attenborough style there will be additional footage going behind the scenes of the making of the show.
Glass Town: A New Musical - A rock requiem starring the Brontë siblings -- Anne, most feminist and most faithful, a neosoul star; Emily, melancholy alt-rock prodigy; Branwell, full of the blues; and Charlotte, fiery frontwoman, desperate for recognition and love. A staged concept album that defies traditional musical theatre, Glass Town explores familial bonds, grief, and isolation, using the literary family as archetypal touchstones.
Glass Town features Miriam Pultro as writer, “Charlotte,” keys and vocals; Katrien Van Riel as music director, “Emily,” bass and vocals; Eddy Marshall as “Branwell,” guitar and vocals; and Emma Claye as “Anne” and vocals. Additional band members include Matt DeMaria (Drums, etc), Anthime Miller (Cello) and Lauren Zawarski (Violin). (Suzanna Bowling)
Wuthering Heights – This English literature classic offers contemporary views that were quite controversial. The depiction of physical and mental cruelty in this book was stark, and it went against all Victorian ideals of that time. (Rhys Gregory)
Dans sa dernière série, diffusée sur Netflix, la productrice Shonda Rhimes imagine une cour d’Angleterre avec des Noirs, des Asiatiques et des couples mixtes. Insensé ? De Heathcliff, du roman « les Hauts de Hurlevent » d’Emily Brontë, à la reine Charlotte du Royaume-Uni, de nombreux personnages fictionnels et réels ont été « blanchis » au théâtre, puis sur nos écrans. La société de l’Ancien Régime n’était pourtant pas aussi blanche qu’on l’imagine. Décryptage historique. (Doan Bui) (Translation)
Con capelli corvini e sguardo penetrante, dalla bellezza che si fa solo notare e probabilmente meglio ricordata ai nostri giorni per aver interpretato il ruolo di Cathy nel classico del 1939 Cime Tempestose, Merle Oberon ha trascorso tutta la sua vita tenendo nascoste le sue origini, passando per bianca. (Fabiana Mariani in Marie Claire) (Translation)
C’est l’erreur que commet l’instituteur de son village (Arthur Igual) qui lui prête Les Hauts de Hurlevent d'Emily Brontë. La première illusion romantique de Gabrielle commence ici, la jeune femme s’imaginant alors que le professeur est amoureux d’elle. Sans hésiter, elle lui déclare sa flamme publiquement bien que celui-ci soit marié et attende un enfant. (Translation)
Si l'on parle de l'influence de mes lectures, j'affectionne la littérature anglaise, surtout Les hauts de Hurlevent d'Emilie Brontë. (Translation)
Es que, como asevera la investigadora Débora Lutz en su libro El gabinete de las hermanas Brontë. Nueve objetos que marcaron sus vidas, “incluso los objetos más cotidianos tienen la capacidad de transportarnos a otras épocas y lugares”. Debe ser por eso que “los objetos antiguos adquieren una capa extra de significado. También nosotros dejaremos atrás artefactos mellados por los acontecimientos, (como la ropa) prendas cálidas de tanto vestirlas. ¿Trasmitirán nuestra historia? ¿Vivirán sin nosotros? ¿Conservarán esas ropas nuestros gestos?”. (Carmen Beatriz Ruiz) (Translation)
Svenska Dagbladet reviews a theatre production of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice:
Idén liknar den som genomfördes på Moment:teater för några år sedan när Åsa Cowburn Berglund, Lotta Östlin Stenshäll och Sofia Rönnegård gav sig på Brontës "Svindlande höjder". Fast där var rummet extremt trångt, och skådespelarna tog sig handgripligen an åskådarna. (Lars Ring) (Translation)
A quote by Charlotte Brontë celebrating spring in the International Business Times. Mozart Cultures posts an essay on 'The roots of feminism. Jane Eyre'.
Juliet Barker2. In Settle, North Yorkshire
The Brontës Revisited
Wednesday 9 March, 12 noon
Main House
In 1994 Juliet Barker wrote a definitive biography of the Brontë family. It was a spectacular achievement: a vivid picture of nineteenth-century Yorkshire, a treasure trove of new information and, most of all, an engrossing and intimate chronicle of an astonishingly creative family. Now it has been republished, revised and updated. Internationally regarded as a foremost expert on the Brontës she introduces this astonishing family.
LipService TheatreCategories: Humour, Talks, Theatre
Withering Looks
Settle Victoria Hall 7.30 pm
LipService, Britain’s favourite literary lunatics are 25 this season.As part of their celebrations, Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding reprise their cult Brontë spoof Withering Looks. They could hardly turn down this opportunity to dust off their crinolines, wear flattering bonnets and sit at rain-lashed windows in a pale and decorative manner.Withering Looks takes an “authentic” look at the lives and works of the Brontë sisters – well, two of them actually, Anne’s just popped out for a cup of sugar. Peopled with many of the characters we know and love, and some quite frankly that LipService have made up, Withering Looks is irreverent and a theatre treat to savour.
The LipService Company is extending their performances of Withering Looks (more information in this old post). Today, January 19, the rendez-vous is in Gainsborough, UK.These are the dates:As part of their celebrations, Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding reprise their cult Bronte spoof Withering Looks at a theatre near you!
As 2006 also marks the death 150 years ago of Charlotte Bronte, Maggie and Sue could hardly turn down the opportunity to dust off their crinolines, wear flattering bonnets and sit at rained-lashed windows in a pale and decorative manner.
Withering Looks takes an insightful look at the lives and works of the Bronte sisters - well, two of them anyway, Anne's just popped out for a cup of sugar following a bout of writer's block. Peopled with many of the characters we know and love, and some quite frankly that LipService have made up, Withering Looks is irreverent and a theatre treat to savour.
19th JanuaryAnd another alert. If you want to see Jacques Tourneur's I Walk With a Zombie (more information on this post about the Jane Eyre background of this movie) in a big screen you have a chance today, January 19, in Decatur, IL:
Trinity Arts Centre, Gainsborough
B/Office 01427 676655 Link to Website
9th February
Stamford Arts Centre
B/Office 01780 76320 www.stamfordartscentre.com
3rd-5th May
The Dukes, Lancaster
B/Office 0845 344 0642 www.dukes-lancaster.org
18th May
Number 8 Community Arts Centre, Pershore
B/Office 01386 555488 www.number8.org
Our First Supernatural Spookshow will be:Categories: Humour, Movies-DVD-TV, Theatre
Friday, January 19: 10:30 P.M.
Doors Open at 10:00 p.m.
Meet Host Troy Taylor, See the Haunted Avon Theater And Get a Few Surprises as Well!
Horror Film Double Features:I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
Strangler of the Swamp (1946)
Thanks to this review from The Independent, we have found out about a Manchester-based comic duo called Lip Service that stage a parody of the Brontës called Withering Looks. They throw anything Brontë-related into the mix and this is what they come up with:Categories: Brontë Parsonage MuseumLip Service headline Bronte Parsonage Museum’s Spring/Summer Contemporary Arts Programme
Literary lunatics Lip Service return to Haworth this summer to perform their cult-classic Brontë spoof Withering Looks. The performance, which will take place on the evening of Saturday 4 June, is one of the highlights of the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s new season of contemporary arts events, the full programme of which is released today.
A new commission by artist Catherine Bertola, opening on Saturday 16 April, will feature a haunting sound installation, To be forever known, in response to the Brontë sisters’ letters and writings. Inspired by the history of the Parsonage, Catherine will also curate a series of special evenings at the museum, called ‘Conversaziones’, as part of her exhibition. Conversaziones were gatherings held by the Victorians in their homes to discuss topics of the day, and the evenings will take place after hours in the museum, featuring a small audience in conversation with expert speakers on subjects such as the domestic life of the Parsonage. Speakers will include Lucasta Miller and biographer Kathryn Hughes.
Also visiting Haworth to talk about their work as part of the new season of events will be novelist Salley Vickers, and writer and journalist Blake Morrison, who is writing a new play about the Brontës for Halifax theatre company Northern Broadsides.
The museum will also be hosting the second Brontë Festival of Women’s Writing in September, following the success of the first festival in 2010. The weekend of readings, talks, workshops and family events takes place 16-18 September and will feature an event with Moira Buffini, the screenwriter for the new film version of Jane Eyre which will be released later this year. The festival programme will be announced in July.
Full details of the new contemporary arts programme, which will run from April to September 2011, are below:
Saturday 16 April – Friday 8 July
To be forever known: Catherine Bertola
Brontë Parsonage Museum
Catherine Bertola creates installations, objects and drawings that respond to particular sites, collections and historic contexts. Using scientific methods of revealing the resonant harmonies and tones of architectural spaces, she will capture the sounds of the Brontë Parsonage Museum. Extracts from the sisters’ letters are spoken aloud and recorded. These recordings have been played and re-recorded over and over again into the space, until the words become whispers and the resonances of the room are revealed. The resulting sounds will be exhibited as an audio installation; the sisters’ thoughts and feelings once again echoing within the rooms of the house.
Catherine Bertola was born in Rugby in 1976, grew up in Halifax, and studied Fine Art at Newcastle University. She has created site specific installations for a variety of sites and contexts, for organisations such as Whitworth Art Gallery (Manchester), V&A Museum (London), Millennium Gallery (Sheffield) and the National Trust. Catherine Bertola has work in several public and private collections and is represented by Workplace Gallery, Gateshead and M+R Fricke, Berlin. She lives and works in Gateshead, UK.
Exhibition free on admission to the museum.
Conversaziones
‘Conversaziones’ were small social gatherings held by the Victorians in their homes to discuss topics of the day. As part of her exhibition, Catherine Bertola has curated three Conversaziones, and together with a series of invited speakers and small audience, will invite discussion on a series of themes relating to the exhibition. The evenings will take place at the Brontë Parsonage Museum after hours, and refreshments will be provided.
Thursday 12 May, 7pm
Radical Women
Lucasta Miller and Jane Robinson discuss the role of radical women, from the original Bluestockings to the 20th Century suffragettes, who like the Brontës, transcended perceived ideas of femininity.
Jane Robinson is author of Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education.
Lucasta Miller is a writer and critic, and author of The Brontë Myth.
Thursday 16 June, 7pm
Everyday Lives
Ann Dinsdale and Suzanne Fagence Cooper take us through the domestic rituals of an early 19th household, to discover how the Brontë sisters would have occupied their time outside of writing.
Ann Dinsdale is Collections Manager at the Brontë Parsonage Museum.
Suzanne Fagence Cooper is V&A Research Fellow at Buckinghamshire New University, has written several books on Victorian art and culture, and has been a consultant for BBC programmes including What the Victorians Did for Us, and Simon Schama's History of Britain.
Thursday 7 July, 7pm
Between the Lines
Historian and biographer Kathryn Hughes explores how artefacts and historical evidence can help us to access the people and places of the past.
Kathryn Hughes is Professor of Lifewriting at UEA. Her biographies include George Eliot: the Last Victorian and The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton. She is a journalist and critic, regularly writing for The Guardian and appearing on BBC Radio 4.
Tickets £14 from jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk / 01535 640188 includes refreshments and private view of the museum. Please note places are strictly limited to 18 per event, so early booking is recommended.
Conversaziones is supported by Art In Yorkshire - supported by Tate, a year long celebration of the visual arts in 19 galleries throughout Yorkshire. Works from Tate’s collection of historic, modern and contemporary art will be showcased through a compelling programme of exhibitions and events. Visit http://art.yorkshire.com
Thursday 19 May, 7.30pm
Blake Morrison
West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth
Blake Morrison is a novelist, poet, journalist and critic, and has written libretti as well as plays for the stage. He visits Haworth to speak about his work, including his upcoming stage play, We Three Are Sisters, which combines Chekhov with the story of the Brontës. Chekhov read about the Brontës’ lives shortly before writing The Three Sisters and their story influenced his famous script.
Born in Skipton, Blake Morrison worked as literary editor of The Observer and Independent on Sunday before becoming a full-time writer in 1995. He has published two memoirs, Things My Mother Never Told Me and And When Did You Last See Your Father? which was made into a film starring Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent. His most recent novel is The Last Weekend (2010). Blake Morrison is Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Tickets £6 and should be booked in advance from jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk / 01535 640188.
Friday 3 June, 3.30pm
Salley Vickers
West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth
Novelist Salley Vickers discusses her work, including her most recent novel, Dancing Backwards and her new short story collection, Aphrodite’s Hat.
Salley Vickers was born in Liverpool and read English at Newnham College, Cambridge. She worked as a teacher and lecturer in English and Ancient literature, and as a Jungian analyst, before publishing her first novel, Miss Garnet’s Angel (2000) which became a word of mouth bestseller and sold over a million copies. This was followed by Instances of the Number 3 (2001); Mr. Golightly's Holiday (2003); The Other Side of You (2006) and Where Three Roads Meet (2007). An admirer of the Brontës, Salley Vickers has written the introduction to the Hesperus Press edition of Charlotte Brontë’s The Secret.
Tickets £6 on the door and there is no need to book in advance.
Saturday 4 June, 8pm
Withering Looks
West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth
Lip Service, Britain’s favourite literary lunatics, dust off their crinolines and return to Haworth with their cult classic Brontë spoof, Withering Looks. The show gives us an intimate look at the lives and works of the Brontë sisters…well, two of them anyway, Anne’s just popped out for a cup of sugar. But they do have maniacal laughter from the attic, consumptive coughing, and some tormented souls to compensate. Peopled with some of the great characters from the Brontë canon, and some that, quite frankly, Lip Service have made up, Withering Looks is an irreverent and hilarious theatre treat to savour. Not to be missed.
Withering Looks has won a Manchester Evening News Award and Critics Award for Comedy at the Edinburgh Festival.
Tickets £20 (£10 under-16s) and must be booked in advance. Ticket price includes admission to the Brontë Parsonage Museum on the day of the performance. For further details and booking please contact jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk / 01535 640188.
Sunday 5 June, 10.30am- 2.30pm
Piano Recital
Brontë Parsonage Museum
Pianist Maya Irgalina from the Royal Northern College of Music performs on Emily Brontë’s cabinet piano. Visitors can look around the museum as the music, chosen from the Brontës’ music books and including Beethoven and Händel, drifts throughout the house. The cabinet piano was restored in 2010 and this is only the second time that it has been played in over 150 years.
Free with admission to the museum.
Brontë Women’s Writing Festival
Friday 16 – Sunday 18 September
Brontë Parsonage Museum and other venues
Following the success of the first Brontë literary festival in 2010, we are delighted to be hosting a second festival dedicated to Women’s Writing. The full programme will be announced in July and will include talks by prominent and emerging women writers, creative writing workshops, and family events at the museum. Festival highlights include screenwriter for the upcoming Jane Eyre motion picture, Moira Buffini, discussing how she adapted the novel for film, Mills & Boon meets Wuthering Heights, plus lots, lots more!
Brontës on Stage and Screen
2011 is a big year for Brontë adaptations, with major feature films of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights released in September. On the stage, there is another chance to see Shared Experience’s Brontë this Spring (see www.sharedexperience.org.uk). In We Three Are Sisters, Blake Morrison’s stage play brings together Chekhov with the Brontës (www.northern-broadsides.co.uk). More locally, Encore Theatre present Brontë Boy which focuses on the life of Branwell Brontë (www.encore01.com).
HeathcliffThe Telegraph visits Paula Rego's studio:
A dark-skinned child is found on the streets of Liverpool by Mr Earnshaw, who takes him back to his Yorkshire home (adoption laws being looser in those days). The home is Wuthering Heights and the child is named Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, grows to hate the interloper; his daughter Catherine to love him. In Emily Brontë's novel, the introduction of this foundling stirs a brew of terrible passions.
She picks up a small, furry animal dressed in a Victorian nightdress. 'Jane Eyre’s monkey,’ she says affectionately. At least, I think that’s what she says. (Mick Brown)The Times looks for ten reason to love Thackeray (in the year of the bicentenary of his birth):
Many Victorian readers would have nodded in agreement. Certainly Charlotte Brontë who, in her preface to Jane Eyre, hailed the author of Vanity Fair as a writer of biblical status — praise that even Thackeray found a trifle overblown. (John Sutherland)The Lancaster Guardian presents the upcoming performances of LipService's Withering Looks in Lancaster:
Britain’s favourite literary lunatics, are back with their cult Bronte spoof Withering Looks.The Minneapolis Star Tribune describes the relatively unknown Brownie Lake as:
The classic comic duo, Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding, just couldn’t resist the urge to dust off their crinolines, wear flattering bonnets and sit at rained-lashed windows in a pale and decorative manner.
Lancastrians can share in the silliness when the pair perform at the Lancaster Grand at 7.30pm on Thursday, June 30.
Withering Looks takes an “authentic” look at the lives and works of the Brontë sisters – well, two of them actually – Anne’s just popped out for a cup of sugar.
Peopled with many of the characters we know and love, Maggie and Sue move effortlessly from frock to frock coat.
For longtime lovers of Harriet, Calhoun and Isles, learning of a fourth sibling in Minneapolis' famous Chain of Lakes is like discovering another Brontë sister or musketeer. (Kristin Tillotson)National Geographic reviews the book The Translator by Daoud Hari:
However, unlike his siblings, Hari is given an opportunity to pursue his education beyond the village and tells of falling in love with the classics of English literature such as Jane Eyre and Oliver Twist. (Cathy Hunter)Variety speculates about which films could be nominated in next year's awards now that we are in the middle of the 2011:
Focus' "Beginners" has gotten a lot of attention (especially for Christopher Plummer), and other films seem like possibilities in a few categories, including "Jane Eyre" and "Hanna" (both Focus)[.] (Timothy M. Gray)ResponseSource publishes a list of comments "overheard in a bookshop":
Customer: Do you have a copy of Jane Eyre?The Guardian asks its readers about their favourite song, photograph, recipe... One of them chooses Kathy's song by Paul Simon describing it like this:
Bookseller: Actually, I just sold that this morning, sorry!
Customer : Oh. Have you read it?
Bookseller: Yep, it’s one of my favourite books.
Customer: Oh great (sits down), could you tell me all about it? I have an essay to write on it by tomorrow.
I couldn't stop listening to the song. Simon's tumbling guitar and delicate vocal are tinged with sadness, but the final line offers hope. It became clear that, while the loneliness and Heathcliff-like yearning I felt were hard, it was the love I knew was there that stopped me quitting. I had someone who loved me for me. (Jamie Emmott)In The Guardian Zoe Williams reviews several books related to feminism in the 21st century and among them the upcoming Aftermath by Rachel Cusk is mentioned.
Not since we met Heathcliff have readers been presented with an anti-hero whose grudges are so intricately prosecuted.Spitalfields Life posts some anecdotes of Cornhill (City of London) including the origins of the carved mahogany doors in 32 Cornhill:
Yet a pair of carved mahogany doors, designed by the sculptor Walter Gilbert in 1939 at 32 Cornhill – opposite the old pump – bring episodes from this rich past alive in eight graceful tableaux. (...)RTVE (Spain) has a digital interview with the writer Silvia Grijalba:
Gilbert’s elegant reliefs appeal to me for the laconic humour that observes the cool autocracy of King Lucius and the sullen obedience of his architects, and for the sense of human detail that emphasises W. M. Thackeray’s curls at his collar in the meeting with Anne and Charlotte Brontë at the offices of their publisher Smith, Elder & Co. In each instance, history is given depth by an awareness of social politics and the selection of telling detail. (gentle author)
Mis gustos en el arte en general son muy eclécticos. Igual que en esta novela hablo de jazz, de Cole Porter, del Son Cubano, de Xavier Cugat o del danzón, me gusta la Velvet Underground, Bowie, John CAge o SAtie. En la literatura igual. Esta novela podría estar en la onda de Jane Austen, las hermanas Brontë, Thomas Hardy o Los Restos del Día de Ishiguro, pero también me encanta Thomas Mann, Nick Hornby, Hanif Kureishi, Jane Bowles... (Translation)The author is also interviewed in El Mundo (Spain):
P (Alberto Ojeda).- Es una novela que sale por completo de sus registros habituales, muy contemporáneos, muy undergrounds...Le Figaro (France) makes a summer reads selection. Including Kate Morton's The Distant Hours:
R.-Es verdad. Pero es otra faceta mía igual de importante. Yo adoro la literatura de las hermanas Brontë, de Jane Austen, las películas de James Ivory..., en las que hay pasión y transgresión. (Translation)
Mais Edie Burchill est plus encore fascinée de découvrir que ces surprenantes créatures tout droit sorties du monde de Charlotte Brontë sont les filles de l'auteur de La Véridique Histoire de l'homme de boue, un conte qui a enchanté son enfance. (Translation)and Florence Warsden's House on the Marsh:
Une jeune fille embauchée comme institutrice par un riche campagnard découvre une maison étrange et malsaine au bord d'un marais, cède insensiblement au charme ambigu de son employeur, et se trouve plongée au milieu des secrets d'une famille, et d'un couple : on aura reconnu un schéma cher à nombre de romancières anglaises, de Charlotte Brontë à Daphné Du Maurier. (Translation)Jane Eyre 2011 has been premiered in Norway and several local media are reviewing the film. Almost all of them quite positively:
Men utstråler virkelig Michael Fassbender en slik erotisk dragning i rollen som rike Herr Rochester at vi overbevises om at den fattige guvernanten Jane faller for ham? For meg blir det mer en påstand at han er så tiltrekkende – i stedet for at vi blekner og smelter i kinomørket og så å si flytter inn i ungpikens stormfulle følelser. Her skulle John Malkovich vært, for å si det slik.Exactly the opposite of VG Nett:
Men regissør Cary Fukunaga gjør mye visuelt bra, ikke minst ved å kullkaste kronologien i starten og flette storslåtte bilder fra Janes flukt over øde fjellandskap sammen med tilbakeblikk til hennes traumatiske barndom. De tidsriktige, kostymetunge scenene der småjenter oppdras med brutalitet er knappe, men presise i sin skildring av oppdragelsesidealer vi fryser på ryggen av. Barneskuespillerne er utmerkede – ikke minst i en tragisk, betagende scene med Janes eneste venninne. (Kristin Aalen) (Translation)
Fassbender stjeler så mye av showet her at selv klasseskuespillere som Judi Dench havner litt i skyggen. Han veksler så sømløst mellom desillusjonert machomann og desperat stormforelsket at han nærmest suger deg til kinolerretet. Ikke uten grunn er han et av de heteste navnene i Hollywood for tiden. Fryktinngytende bra - som denne filmen. (Øystein David Johansen) (Translation)Oslopuls:
Jane og Rochester skal være et umake par, som her. Ikke desto mindre må det gnistre mellom dem. Fassbender gjør hva han kan for å etablere den erotiske tonen, men han når ikke frem til Wasikowska, eller hun makter ikke å avsløre spenningene i Janes tilbakeholdte seksualitet. Å være forelsket på film er vanskeligere enn hva vi tror i 2011. (Translation)btno loves it:
De stemningsmessige og visuelle kontrastene er essensielle i filmen, og for filmens tiltrekningskraft. Kontrasten mellom en affektert kultur og en vill natur. Vekslingen fra mystikk og uhygge til tungt erotisk ladet romantikk. Fra panoreringer over Derbyshires storslåtte landskap til lette, tette bilder i en blomstrende hage, filmet med håndholdt kamera slik at de minner om glade videoshots fra vår egen tid. Bildene er nesten taktile. Vinden gjennom blafrende gardiner kan omtrent føles på huden. (Jan Stian Vold) (Translation)Nordlys recommends it:
Side 2:Charlotte Brontës Jane Eyre fra 1847 har blitt en besnærende vakker og velspilt film fra 2011. Uten å miste noe av sin kraft. Denne anbefales på det varmeste.Sterk femmer. (Tord Olander Pedersen) (Translation)
«Jane Eyre» passer best for folk som liker romantiske filmer. Foretrekker du fart og spenning på lerretet, vil du muligens synes filmen er kjedelig. Men er du av den romantiske typen, vil du få en av årets bedre filmopplevelser av «Jane Eyre». (Jorunn Egeland) (Translation)Hamar Dagblad:
Men bak eleganse og fremragende tidskoloritt, ser jeg en film som handler vel så mye om kvinnefrigjøring og følelsesmessig og intellektuell likestilling mellom kjønnene. Og det i en tid da dette var lite påaktet, for å si det forsiktig. (Svein Kristiansen) (Translation)Fædrelandsvennen:
Samtidig er filmen tro mot romanens tidsbilde og dens klare persontegninger, og den gjengir de engelske øde heder på en nesten stofflig måte. Regissør Fukunaga makter å gi oss fritt utsyn, rent fysisk, samtidig som en føler seg innestengt og avmektig. Han gir oss både ytre og indre landskaper, med andre ord. (Knut Holt) (Translation)Tønsberg Blad:
Filmen fremstår faktisk på mange måter som Jane Eyre selv: alvorlig, oppriktig og inderlig. Og helt nydelig. (Ellen Andrea) (Translation)Montages:
Fukunaga har kanskje ingen ambisjoner om å fornye en klassiker med sin versjon av Jane Eyre, men tilfører mer enn nok av både nerve og kreativitet til at den hører hjemme blant de beste i sin sjanger fra de senere år. Og skulle du tilfeldigvis tilhøre gruppen som ikke takler periodedrama av det godslige, kaklende slaget, bør du ihvertfall ta turen – dette er akkurat det motsatte! (Eirik Smidesan Slåen) (Translation)Vårtoland:
Hun er en Jane å tro på, og en å ville ligne, slik historien om Jane Eyre alltid vil spille på dype strenger hos kvinnelige lesere og seere. Vi tror på henne som en kvinne som har utholdt lidelse og renset sin sjel, en som ikke kan gå på akkord med det hun mener er rett. Og vi tror på hennes trofaste kjærlighet. Slik blir dette Janes film, en fortelling om mot, oppofrelse og ekte skjønnhet, av det slaget som kommer innenfra. (Liv Riiser) (Translation)artactu asks the artist Françoise Larouge quotes Emily Brontë as one of her inspirations. KSL (Utah) includes Jane Eyre in a Great Classics Read top ten and Flavorwire includes the Brontës in a list of writers who died too early; Daria DiGiovanni loves Wuthering Heights 1939; bookersatz, Awkward Moment, Alius et Idem (in Italian) and The Romance Bookie review Jane Eyre; Ecran de projections does the same with Jane Eyre 2006 (in French); both Leituras Brontëanas (in Portuguese) and For the Love of Lit... review Jane Eyre 1970; Labour law and Later and The Restless Critic have seen the latest Jane Eyre film adaptation. ViViCool (Italy) posts about the original novel. Flickr user JPrince42graphy has uploaded pictures of Top Withins and the Haworth moors.
This spring we are touring our cult classic, Withering Looks, a slice of life with the Brontë sisters - well two of them, Anne's just popped out for a cup of sugar!
To book a show please ring 0161 232 6093
26th April Derby Live Guildhall TheatreThe York Press interviews Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding (LipService):
27th – 28th April Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
29th April Junction, Goole
13th – 14th May Oldham Coliseum
20th – 21st May Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough,# On sale from 28th February
27th May Worcester Live, Swan Theatre
4th June The Brontë Society
9th June Rose Theatre, Ormskirk
16th June Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham
17th June Canterbury Gulbenkian Theatre
29th June The Mill, Banbury
30th June Lancaster Grand
EDIT: 11 July Lichfield Festival
Withering Looks was the show that really put LipService on the map. “Who would have thought there’d be comedy in the Brontës with all their coughing and tuberculosis?!” ponders Maggie. “But we weren’t lampooning the Brontës, more the gift-shop culture that now surrounds them.2. In Bertrix, Belgium:
“I do remember one iconic night when the whisper went round that the Brontë Society, the great bastions, the keeper of the Brontë flame, were in the audience, and I thought, ‘Oh my god, they’re going to close us down’, but it turned out the curator went to school with me in Tadcaster.
“They loved the show so much that our programme went into the Brontë exhibition at the Parsonage.” (Charles Hutchinson)
Souffles de femmesCategories: Alert, Humour, Theatre
Soirée littéraire consacrée à Dominique Jacques (Emily B.)
Il y a peu, elle nous entraînait dans l’univers particulier d’Emily Brontë. Elle y explorait les Hauts de Hurlevents, mêlant son souffle de femme au vent de la lande, en quête d’identités plurielles. Tour à tour Emily, Catherine Earnshaw, Heathclif, elle avait su trouver les mots justes pour restituer l'intimité et le côté passionnel de cette histoire.
Mais le goût des mots, elle le cultive depuis très longtemps, au travers de son métier (professeur de français à l’INDA d'Arlon) et de sa double passion, l’écriture (« Le Fantôme de Vancouver », « Stat Amor » publiés aux éditions Memory Press) et le théâtre.
A brand new tour with Withering Looks by the LipService Theatre Company:Withering Looks takes an “authentic” look at
the lives and works of the Brontë sisters – well, two of them actually, Anne’s just popped out for a cup of sugar. Peopled with many of the characters we know and love, Maggie and Sue move effortlessly from frock to frock coat.
New Wolsey, Ipswich
26th & 27th September
27th matinee audio described and BSL interpreted
Stamford Arts Centre, Stamford
28th September
Mumford Theatre, Cambridge
29th September
The Atkinson, Southport
5th October
Preston Charter Theatre, Preston
9th October
Coronation Hall, Ulverston
12th October
Oldham Coliseum, Oldham
16th-20th October
Matinees Weds & Sat
Swindon Arts Centre, Swindon
25th October
Howden Shire Hall, Howden
26th October
Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis
6th November
Lighthouse Poole, Dorset
7th November
Cygnet Theatre, Exeter
8th November
Palace Theatre, Paignton
9th November
Newbury Corn Exchange, Newbury
15th November
Theatre Royal, Dumfries
26th January 2019
Lancaster is starring in York Theatre Royal's production of 'Wuthering Heights' from 2nd June. He plays four characters; Old Earnshaw, Linton, Edgar Linton and Joseph which sees him enacting three deaths. Lancaster says; 'the key is to try and die in as many different ways!'For a deeper look at this story, Associated Content has just added Fatherhood in Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff and Edgar: A Tale of Two Fathers by Tina.
Joseph, Lancaster's only character to survive the duration of the play, is written as having a thick Yorkshire accent, and as a Macclesfieldian, Lancaster says, 'I'm having a go at it! There's not a lot of it, and it's quite easy to pick up and there's plenty of Yorkshire people about to pick it up from.'
'Wuthering Heights' is seen as a classic love story but is this version staying true to its roots? 'We've kept to the story, it's not been modernised in what we wear and it's set in the time it was, the only difference is really that we have a lot of narration in, so I think it's good for people who don't know the story so well'.
When Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding of LipService realised that it was also the 150th anniversary of the death of Charlotte Bronte, they could hardly turn down the chance to dust off their crinolines and press their bloomers in a reprise of one of their best-loved shows.Aren't you tempted? Do try and make it there if you're in the area.
Withering Looks is an up close and personal look behind the forbidding exterior of Haworth Parsonage, where the three Bronte sisters - well, two actually, Anne"s just popped out for a cup of sugar - lived and worked.
But to compensate, there are more ravaged heaths, tormented souls, mysterious neighbours, and maniacal laughter from the attic.
Peopled with many familiar characters, and some, quite frankly that LipService have made up, this is a potted potty classic to savour.
Withering Looks won a Manchester Evening News Theatre Award and the Critics' award at the Edinburgh Festival.
Tickets are priced between £8 and £10 and are available from the Borough Theatre"s box office on 01873 850805. (Iwan Davies)
5. Who are you reading right now?That's too bad because The Brontës: A Life in Letters is one of the best reads in the Brontë bibliography. Juliet Barker truly lets the Brontës speak for themselves.
[...] Juliet Barker's The Brontes A Life in Letters (I've picked through this before for research purposes but I've never sat down and read it straight through -- I'm hanging my head in shame); The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Bronte.
14. Who are the biggest influences on your work?We love the paranthesis and the fact that she includes Anne too. And, by the way, Sandy Lender has her own blog too.
[...] Charlotte Bronte (as well as Emily and Anne)
Our trip was to see ‘Withering Looks’ starring Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding who together with their team make up the Manchester-based Lipservice theatre company. This was superb performance. Both actors have an exceptional ability to interact with the audience. Maggie Fox combines the best of Joyce Grenfell and Frances de Latour, and Sue Ryding is equally adept at contorted expressions. As a duo they have that effortless timing and understanding which only few achieve.And an alert for Reno, taken from the Reno Gazette-Journal:
‘Withering Looks’, now in its 22nd year has lost none of its appeal, being as witty and entertaining a tour of the Bronte sisters as ever. However, it is only one in a series of comedies that Lipservice has produced and fans will be looking forward to the forthcoming ‘Live and Let’s Dye’ (with Jane Bond) which starts its tour this autumn.
Parents can bring their children ages 3 to 7 to a storytelling hour conducted by storytellers trained by the Washoe County Library.Enjoy it if you're in the area.
Adults can attend the poetry writing workshops conducted by members of the Unnamed Writer's Group, which follow the storytelling hour.
Volunteers are needed to lead the Book Club in each park (books and a literary guide will be provided).
Books chosen for this session include "Fahrenheit 451" and "Wuthering Heights."
This program is offered on Saturdays in July and August free of charge in the following eight neighborhood parks: Comstock Park, Huffaker Park, Panther Valley Park, Rainbow Ridge Park, Village Green Park, Wheatland Park, Silver Lake Park and Valley Wood Park.
For a schedule or additional information, contact at 334-2417 or visit http://www.renoparksandrec.com/.
JANE EYRE. The MusicalComplete Cast, here.
John Caird & Paul Gordon
To be performed May 3 – 5, 2007 at the Dulles State Office Building in Watertown, New York.
Jane Eyre Cast List
JANE EYRE: Amber Crone
YOUNG JANE: Olivia Grant
MR. BROCKLEHURST: Dustin Ferguson
GRACE POOLE: Emily Smith
EDWARD FAIRFAX ROCHESTER: Michael Bolio
BLANCHE INGRAM: Melissa Fowler
BERTHA MASON: Ashley DeMar
ST. JOHN RIVERS: Adam Clyde
Dukes Theatre & Cinema News, Lancaster UKMore information on these old posts of ours.
Lipservice present...
WITHERING LOOKSWithering Looks takes an insightful look at the lives and works of the Bronte sisters - well, two of them anyway, Anne's just popped out for a cup of sugar following a bout of writer's block. Peopled with many of the characters we know and love, and some quite frankly that LipService have made up, Withering Looks is irreverent and a theatre treat to savour.
Performances
Thursday, 3 May, 2007 19:30
Friday, 4 May, 2007 20:00
Saturday, 5 May, 2007 20:00
Lip Service Theatre begins a new UK tour which will bring their Brontë parody Withering Looks among other pieces to several cities. The first one is Settle, North Yorkshire:Withering LooksThe rest of the tour includes:
by Lip Service Theatre
Directed by Noreen Kershaw
Designed by Kevin Wrench and Andrew Franks
Music by Ian Heywood
December 1, 7:30 pm
Victoria Hall, Settle
February 9, 2011 7:30 PMCategories: Humour, Theatre
Buxton Opera House, Buxton
Thursday 10 February, 2011, 7.45pm
The Theatre, Chipping Norton
Sunday 20 February 2011 - Monday 21 February, 2011 7.30pm
Theatre by the Lake, Keswick
10 March, 2011
Borough Theatre, Abergavenny
11 March, 2011
Wolverhampton Arena, Wolverhampton
March 12, 2011
Festival Drayton, Market Drayton
March 19, 2011 7:30 pm
Customs House, South Shields
13 -14, 2011 April
Oldham Coliseum, Oldham
26 April, 2011
Derby Live Guildhall Theatre, Derby
Wed 27, 2011 Apr-Thu 28, 2011, 7:30 pm
Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
May 27, 2011
Worcester Live, Swan Theatre
Thursday, 9t June, 2011 7:30 pm
Rose Theatre, Ormskirk
June 16, 2011
Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham
June 30, 2011 7:30 pm
Lancaste Grand, Lancaster
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