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| Jane Eyre is at the Abbey Theatre Studio |
THE passionate but repressed nature of Jane Eyre is brought to the fore in an adaptation of the Charlotte Bronte classic which is being staged from next week.
Polly Teale's dramatisation of the tale is being performed by the Company of Ten in the Abbey Theatre Studio from next Friday, April 18, until Saturday, April 26.
Jane Eyre was published in 1847 and was decades ahead of its time. Jane is an orphan condemned to live with her vicious and uncaring Aunt Reed. Shut up in the Red Room as a punishment for breaking the rules of permitted behaviour, Jane loses control of herself in an attack of rage and is told that God will strike her dead, "in the midst of one of her tantrums".
So she learns to keep her fiery spirit and her passionate nature under control if she is to survive but Polly Teale's brings it out by making Bertha, the mad woman in the attic, into the alter ego for Jane's passionate but repressed nature.
The story is fast-paced, vivid and exciting, conjuring up the fiery heart of the novel while retaining the strange and unforgettable atmosphere evoked by Charlotte Bronte's imagination.
Tickets for Jane Eyre, which can be seen at 8pm each night, are available from the Abbey Theatre box office or on line at www.abbeytheatre.org.uk
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