Jane Eyre
National Theatre / Bristol Old Vic coproduction. Shown originally in two parts in Bristol, but in one after moving to London. Went on tour 2016/7, ending back at the National.
Cast & Crew
Cast
Bertha | Melanie Marshall |
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Bessie | Simone Saunders |
Blanche | Simone Saunders |
Brocklehurst | Craig Edwards |
Helen Burns | Laura Elphinstone |
Jane Eyre | Madeleine Worrall |
John Reed | Craig Edwards |
Mrs Fairfax | Maggie Tagney |
Mrs Reed | Maggie Tagney |
Rochester | Felix Hayes |
St John Rivers | Craig Edwards |
Bessie | Evelyn Miller
(started September 2016) |
Brocklehurst | Paul Mundell
(started September 2016) |
Helen Burns | Hannah Bristow
(started September 2016) |
Jane Eyre | Nadia Clifford
(started September 2016) |
Mrs Fairfax | Lynda Rook
(started September 2016) |
Mrs Reed | Lynda Rook
(started September 2016) |
Rochester | Tim Delap
(started September 2016) |
Crew | |
Costume | Jennie Falconer |
Costume designer | Katie Sykes |
Director | Sally Cookson |
Dramaturg | Mike Akers |
Lighting designer | Aideen Malone |
Music | Benji Bower |
Set designer | Michael Vale |
Sound designer | Mike Beer |
- Observations (1)
- Added by Matthew Somerville, last modified by Chris D.
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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.
Observations
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