Jane Eyre back in Beijing

The 2009 Chinese adaptation of Jane Eyre which has been staged once and once again at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing and touring China, returns once more to the Beijing stages:

Jane Eyre

April 11-14, 2022

Adapted by Yu Rongjun

Stage Director ... Wang Xiaoying

Cast:  Jane Eyre .... Zhu Jie

Rochester ... Pu Cunxin

The silent piano, closed suitcase...under the spotlight, Jane Eyre, in a long grey skirt, bursts into the still life-like stage. In the misty fog, standing outside the Thornfield manor gate, Jane Eyre unintentionally starts the fate engine of the people in this old manor.

In June 2009, Jane Eyre pioneered by NCPA was staged for the first time, and this was also the first interpretation of Charlotte Brontë's classical novel of the same name on the stage of drama in China. WANG Xiaoying and YU Rongjun served as the stage director and the playwright respectively.

Ever since its debut in 2009, this drama version of Jane Eyre has been performed many times at NCPA and other theatres and has toured in such cities as Shanghai, Chongqing, Ningbo, Hangzhou and Fuzhou, with the lead female character Jane Eyre performed by YUAN Quan, CHEN Shu and JU Jie.

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of the author of Jane Eyre, the English writer Charlotte Bronte, NCPA will once again stage the drama version of Jane Eyre, with famous Chinese actors YUAN Quan and WANG Luoyong playing the leading roles. Meanwhile, NCPA Drama Ensemble will also join this production of Jane Eyre.

Further information in China Daily.