Charlotte Bronte’s undisputed literary classic Jane Eyre is coming to the stage in Richmond to mark 200 years since the author’s birth – and it is doing so in slightly unusual style.
Northern Ballet, acclaimed for adaptations including Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, will perform the dramatic romance at Richmond Theatre from May 31 to June 1 as part of its world premiere tour.
The performance is choreographed by Cathy Marston, who also tackled Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities for the company in 2008.
She said: “Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre was a novel far ahead of its time and when I think of Jane I feel inspired by images of her passionate but 'impossible' relationship with Mr Rochester, the fire and emotional destruction symbolised by Bertha Mason - the infamous 'woman in the attic', the contrasting icy moorland through which she seems to run from one chapter of her life to another, and of course her final reunion with Rochester.
“But these images only touch the surface of a character and a book that continue to provoke and move - generation after generation, re-read after re-read.”
Northern Ballet will also perform its children’s show Tortoise and the Hare twice on Wednesday, June 1.
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