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Lifeline to stage `Jane Eyre' as a `female power fantasy'
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19910103
Author:Hedy Weiss
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is one of those 19th century novels that is force-fed to adolescents before they can grasp just exactly how twisted and erotic a tale it is.
In fact, if teachers had any real sense, they'd rate the book "X" and tell their kids they probably wouldn't understand it until they were adults.
Lifeline Theatre director Meryl Friedman and her frequent collaborator, playwright-adapter Christina Calvit, both recall making their way through the pages of Bronte's dark Victorian romance as teenagers.
But as Friedman readily admits, "There are things you read at the age ...
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