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| GENRE |
Drama |
| LENGTH |
Full-length, 135 minutes
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| CAST |
6 females, 3 males (9-21 actors possible: 6-14 females, 3-7 males) |
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A non-literal unit set is ideal. Furniture and props should be as period and ornate as possible.
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| NOTES |
Some mild adult language |
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| Orphaned Jane Eyre overcomes her early abusive and lonely experiences to become an accomplished governess at Thornfield, the mysterious home of Mr. Rochester. She is drawn to the master of the house, but their future is destroyed by a secret from his past...a secret that also forces Jane to flee Thornfield into poverty and illness. Eventually, Jane is able to find family, wealth, and love, but not without a cost. Though faithful to the original story, this adaptation also focuses on Jane's gradual ability to shed the ghosts of her past to become a fully realized person. |
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| "Calvit has released Charlotte Brontë's famed Gothic novel, Jane Eyre, from its dusty melodramatic confines to show the title heroine's liberation from Victorian oppression. By judiciously trimming the tale of a plain governess loved by a noble man in a house full of deadly secrets, Calvit creates a focused, full-bodied work with a contemporary resonance." |
| --Lucia Mauro, Chicago Tribune |
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| Jane Eyre, Lifeline Theatre, Chicago (2001). |
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