The production will run at the Greenwich Theatre on the 25th and 26th September.
It has been announced that Live Wire & Roughhouse Theatre’s production of Charlotte Bronte’s timeless classic Jane Eyre: an autobiography will head to London as part of its tour.
Marking a deeply poignant anniversary in the great novelist’s life on which 200 years ago when Charlotte was only nine years of age, both her older sisters – Maria and Elizabeth – died of consumption within weeks of each other at just 10 & 11 years old respectively.
Director Shane Morgan explains: “there is no doubt whatever that the devastating impact of Maria and Elizabeth’s deaths at just 10 & 11 years old respectively was key to the germination of the Jane Eyre whose orphaned heroine endures childhood loss, rejection and isolation as she embarks on her quest for familial love and somewhere to belong.”
Adapted by award winning playwright Dougie Blaxland and produced by the same creative team that won the 2021 National Campaign for the Arts Award Live Wire & Roughhouse Theatre’s Jane Eyre: an autobiography is in fact a revival of the 2015 production.
This revival of the production will see Alison Campbell – a graduate of the prestigious Bristol Old Vic Theatre School reprising her role as Jane Eyre and thinks that: “the revival of the production to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the death of Maria & Elizabeth Bronte is of great significance in honouring the extraordinary Bronte family as a whole and highlighting the creative genius that emerged in the face of tragedy.”
Jane Eyre: an autobiography opens at Phoenix Arts Bordon on 23rd September and closes at The Ustinov Studio Bath from 13th to 15th October. The full dates for the production are as follows:
Tues 23rd September Phoenix Arts Bordon 14:30 & 19:30
Weds 24th September
Alma Tavern Theatre, Bristol 20:00
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Thurs 25th & Fri 26th September
Greenwich Theatre, London 19:30 (additional matinee at 14:30 on 26th Sept)
Sat 27th September
Brewhouse, Taunton 14:30 & 19:30
Mon 29th & Tues 30th September
Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford 19:30 (additional matinee at 14:30 on 30th Sept) www.oxfordplayhouse.com
Weds 1st & Thurs 2nd October
Yvonne Arnaud Studio, Guildford at 19:45
Thurs 9th October
The Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis 19:30
Fri 10th October
Cotswold Playhouse, Stroud 19:30
Mon 13th to Weds 15th October
The Ustinov Studio, Bath 19:30