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From: The Village Voice
Date: 19960430
Author:Russo, Francine
Imagine Jane Eyre--or her creator Charlotte Bronte--with all the romantic passion of the novel but freed from that concealing and confining clothing. In Do Something With Yourself: The Life of Charlotte Bronte (Miranda Theatre), writer-performer Linda Hanning gives us a fiercely intelligent and sexual Charlotte Bronte, barefoot and in petticoats as she conducts in formal diction her very proper family and literary business. Michael Pinney, with snakelike grace, twists himself into all the men in Charlotte's life--father, beloved teacher, publisher, brother--but play most of them bare-chested ...
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