With... Adam Sargant
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It's our last episode of series 1!!! Expect ghost, ghouls and lots of
laughs as we round off the series with Adam Sargant, AKA Haunted Haworth.
We'll be...
3 weeks ago
William Luce wrote Brontë first as a radio play for actress Julie Harris to perform on Masterpiece Radio Theatre, Elinor Stout directing. Entitled Currer Bell, Esq. (Charlotte Brontë's nom de plume), this production won three prestigious broadcasting awards - the Peabody Award, the Ohio State Award and Columbia University's Armstrong Award.In 2012 the piece was revived in New York by the Alloy Theater Company with Maxine Linehan in the title role.
Miss Harris next performed Currer Bell, Esq. as a Caedmon Records production directed by Ward Botsford. With the new title of Brontë, the play's third presentation became Irish Television's movie version filmed on location in the green moor country of County Wicklow and directed by Delbert Mann. The film premiered in New York's Lincoln Center, followed by public television airings in North America and the UK.
Brontë's final incarnation was Luce's current stage version, with Julie Harris being directed by Kristoffer Tabori, and subsequently by Charles Nelson Reilly. Brontë has had theater productions throughout the United States, Canada, Scandinavia, South America, Europe and Japan. (Source)
Thank you for bringing this to your readers' attention. Bill was a wonderful writer and human being, and while I grew up loving 'The Belle of Amherst', I often told him it was 'Bronte' that most touched me. I think it was the same for him.
ReplyDeleteAs a postscript, may I add I inherited from Bill all his materials related to the writing of the play 'Bronte', including photos he took of Julie Harris during filming of the play for Irish television, and am happy to share.
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