Plays postponed

Keighley News reports that the play The Lost Voice of Anne Brontë which was scheduled to go on stage at Haworth on April 17-19 has been postponed until the autumn.

A group of Australian actors were due to present drama The Lost Voice of Anne Brontë in the village on April 17-19.
The author, Cate Whitaker, has decided to postpone the visit by her theatre company to the district until the autumn.
She has now arranged to come to Haworth with her actors in the autumn in addition to new performances at Otley Courthouse.
The Haworth performance will be on October 3 at 6.30pm in the Old Schoolroom next to the Brontë Parsonage Museum. Pay on the door.
The Otley performances will be on October 2 (8pm) and 4 (3.30pm & 7.30pm). Visit otleycourthouse.org.uk for further information and to book tickets.
The Lost Voice of Anne Brontë is described as a Gothic tale of torment, tragedy and treachery.
Originally billed as part of the Brontë Society’s celebration of Anne’s 200th anniversary year, the play’s aim was to give the famous novelist back her lost voice.
Cate said: “The young cast are extremely excited to be coming with this moving and powerful story around the tormented, tragic, treacherous lives of the Bronte siblings and the slow rise of Anne from a shy, sweet sickly girl to become a powerful force.
“She shocks the nation in her revelation of wife abuse in her second novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, then when the critics try to close her down she comes back with a blistering attack on them in the preface to the second edition.
“She dies before she can publish it and sister Charlotte, fearful of the effect on her and Anne’s reputation, refuses its publication denying Anne her rightful place in history.” (David Knights)

Ilkley Gazette carries to story as well.

Slough and South Bucks Observer reports that,

Windsor's Theatre Royal is closed - following the Government's 'advice' to people not to go to the theatre while the Coronavirus crisis is running. [...]
Future attractions had included the 1970s disco musical Lost in Music, appearances by comedian John Bishop and a new production of Jane Eyre. (Francis Batt)

And so Lincoln Journal Star wonders whether the coronavirus has cancelled culture. (The answer is no, by the way).

I did once, on a road trip to a soccer tournament in Pleasanton, California, have my daughter (who somehow missed the family car-sickness gene) read “Jane Eyre” aloud so we could discuss the possibility of various school essays. It was lovely.
So now I have big plans. (Mary McNamara)

SceneWeb (France) asks comedian Géraldine Martineau for quarantine recommendations.

– Un livre: Jane Eyre de Charlotte Brontë
Je relis avec un immense plaisir ce grand -et long- roman que j’avais dévoré adolescente. (Translation)

The Telegraph has published an obituary for actress Doris Merrick, who

had a minor role in Jane Eyre, starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine (both 1943).

So minor, that we don't know really who she was.

Jane Eyre is one of the Bechdel test-approved novels recommended by PopSugar.