Jane Eyre

Synopsis

A landmark in the history of English literature. Jane simple governess, wins the heart of Edward Fairfax Rochester, the brooding and mysterious master of Thornfield Hall. Questioning the boundaries of class and gender, it is one of the most heartrending and powerful tales of romance and suspense ever told.

Our Review:

15 May 2006

Almost ten years after its premiere at the Young Vic in 1997, Polly Teale’s Shared Experience production of Jane Eyre returns to London at the Trafalgar Studios – that uncomfortable arena erected in the shamefully desecrated art nouveau Whitehall Theatre – and gathers force the longer it goes on.

And it does, I’m afraid, go on for rather a long time. Three hours of writhing and plangent cello music is about two and a half hours more than I can usually tolerate, but the performance is so strong, and the high points of Teale’s directing so vivid, that I must concede the show a victory on points, if not a knock-out.

The Trafalgar management must be hoping that Charlotte Bronte’s ever popular novel will draw the crowds for the summer, and two of the original cast, Monica Dolan as the penniless orphan Jane and James Clyde as the Byronic, dastardly Mr Rochester, return with renewed confidence to roles which offer them as much technical scope as emotiona...

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71.226.88.38) - 15 August 2006:

Good effort. Charlotte would be spinning in her grave if she knew! Where did that dog come from?!...

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