Jane Eyre
Adapted by Polly Teale
Cast & Crew
Cast
Abigail | Octavia Walters |
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Adele | Octavia Walters |
Bertha | Pooky Quesnel |
Bessie | Hannah Miles |
Blanche Ingram | Hannah Miles |
Brocklehurst | Antony Byrne |
Cellist | Philip Rham |
Diana Rivers | Hannah Miles |
Grace Poole | Hannah Miles |
Helen Burns | Octavia Walters |
Jane Eyre | Monica Dolan |
John Reed | James Clyde |
Lord Ingram | Antony Byrne |
Mary Rivers | Octavia Walters |
Mrs Fairfax | Joan Blackham |
Mrs Reed | Joan Blackham |
Pilot the Dog | Antony Byrne |
Richard Mason | Philip Rham |
Rochester | James Clyde |
St. John Rivers | Antony Byrne |
Crew | |
ASM/Props | Paul Williams |
Casting | Marcia Gresham |
Company Movement | Liz Ranken |
Company Stage Manager | Sid Charlton |
Company Voice Work | Patsy Rodenburg |
Composer | Peter Salem |
Costume Supervisor | Yvonne Milnes |
Designer | Neil Warmington |
Dialect Coach | Jeanette Nelson |
Director and Adapter | Polly Teale |
DSM | James Byron |
Lighting Designer | Chris Davey |
Production Manager | Alison Ritchie |
Props Assistant | Lucy Walker |
Scenic Artist | Chris Clarke |
Sound Operator | Julie Winkles |
Tour LX | Chris Clay |
Wardrobe Maintenance | Helen Charlton |
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Play description
Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England, under the pen name “Currer Bell.” The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York.
Primarily of the Bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the Byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall. In its internalisation of the action—the focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane’s moral and spiritual sensibility, and all the events are coloured by a heightened intensity that was previously the domain of poetry—Jane Eyre revolutionised the art of fiction. Charlotte Brontë has been called the ‘first historian of the private consciousness’ and the literary ancestor of writers like Joyce and Proust. The novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core, but is nonetheless a novel many consider ahead of its time given the individualistic character of Jane and the novel’s exploration of classism, sexuality, religion, and proto-feminism.
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