Moira Buffini and Withering Looks

 A double streaming alert for today, April 22:

1. The Brontë Lounge : Moira Buffini

April 22, 7:30 PM
An evening with the writer of the 2011 film of "Jane Eyre"

April’s Brontë Lounge guest is writer, playwright and showrunner Moira Buffini.
In this zoom event, taking place the day after Charlotte Brontë's 205th birthday, Moira will talk to our host Helen Meller about the process of adaptation, and how she wrote the screenplay for the acclaimed 2011 film of Jane Eyre, which was directed by Cary Fukunaga and starred Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender.

2.  Withering Looks by Lipservice Theatre (A Streamed Event)

Pocklington Arts Centre

April 22, 7:30 PM

Commissioned by the Brontë Parsonage Museum, LipService Theatre perform scenes from their award-winning comedy Withering Looks, filmed in the ACTUAL parsonage where the Brontë sisters wrote their ACTUAL books ACTUALLY! With additional material filmed in and around Haworth village and on the wild and windswept moors in sub-zero temperatures!

The film 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 is additional footage of the making of the film. This special showing is to celebrate Pocklington Arts Centre 21st anniversary. Maggie and Sue from LipService will introduce the film live on Zoom and there will be a live Q&A at the end.