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ARTS DIARY: DRAMA Jane Eyre/ Liverpool Playhouse.(Features)
From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20060308
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Byline: PHILIP KEY
DIRECTOR Polly Teale took an unusual and dangerous approach when she adapted Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre for the stage.
Deciding that Jane and the mad woman locked in the attic of her employer, Mr Rochester, were almost the same character, she went about merging the two.
In the book's famous opening with Jane reading a book indoors because of the wet weather, she has the mad woman Bertha alongside her reading the same book, injecting her own experience into Jane's imagination.
Well, it's an idea, but one that makes for some awkward ...
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