Bromsgrove Advertiser reviews Blackeyed Theatre's
Jane Eyre at the Festival Theatre, Malvern.
The cast of just five, led by Kelsey Short in the title role and Ben Warwick’s Rochester, really rose to the occasion - capturing all the moods and relaying them with considerable clarity of diction.
Utterly captivating and convincing - especially the relationship that grew between the two leads.
The cast’s exceptional use of the minimal props available to them was a credit to their dexterity and the guidance of director Adrian McDougall and set designer Victoria Spearing, with boxes and benches offering in the mind’s eye long passageways, doors and dark, secretive rooms.
Thornfield is an isolated mansion in England’s north-east and contains a number of apparently unused rooms that become important to the narrative, especially as its gloomy character holds a dark secret.
Jane is possibly before her time as Kelsey Short provides a woman of sterner stuff who can rise to any challenge with an inner fighting spirit.
It may been a male dominated world at the time of Brontë’s 1847 work, but our heroine showed she was quite capable of fighting on, even during her darkest hours.
Great support from Camilla Simson, Eleanor Toms and Oliver Hamilton who filled a variety of roles with Camilla Simson impressing as both the caring Mrs Fairfax and violent Bertha Mason.
Ben Warwick’s Rochester is yet another admirable performance, capturing his tormented soul, depression and malaise, before love is welcomingly rewarded.
Blackeyed Theatre has built a considerable reputation for itself in recent years and this production is without doubt yet another feather in their cap. (Alan Wallcroft)
The New York Times' By the Book interviews Jeanette Winterson.
Are there any classic novels that you only recently read for the first time? Classic novels I haven’t read? Well, there must be some, but when I was growing up in a poor northern working-class town, my mental resource was the public library. Spanning the width of the Carnegie library there was a giant bookcase labeled English Literature in Prose A-Z. I had no one to guide me so I started at A. At the beginning things go well: Austen, Brontës, Conrad, Dickens. Eliot.
The Yorkshire Post features Andrea Bagan, dubbing her 'The boss who finds inspiration from the words of Charlotte Brontë'.
Our open plan office has industrial influences, with lots of natural light and a great view over Greek Street which has an amazing vibe on a sunny day.
The meeting rooms are named after heroes and heroines of Yorkshire including Dame Judi Dench, David Hockney, Helen Sharman and Charlotte Brontë. Each room includes a quote, my favourite being from Brontë: “Neither birth, nor sex forms a limit to genius.” (Greg Wright)
It sounds a bit apocryphal to us, though.
Financial Times is also reminded of Heathcliff by the male protagonist of the stage production of
Blood Wedding at the Young Vic.
The bride is promised to a wealthy landowning farmer but she’s in the thrall of Leonardo Felix, a Heathcliff-like figure with long hair, rippling muscles and a wife he doesn’t love. Gavin Drea is magnetic in the role, somehow managing to capture the allure of a rider on horseback as he gallops around the stage, half-suspended from a circus-style aerial strap. (Alice Saville)
I listened to lots of Queen and Kate Bush, actually. “Wuthering Heights”—have you played that in your headphones recently? Oh, man! It’s just, wow, my god! (Dan Epstein)
Kitty marie's reading corner posts about the manga adaptation of
Jane Eyre.
0 comments:
Post a Comment