Dougie Blaxland’s Jane Eyre: An Autobiography is set to return to Burton Taylor Studio at Oxford Playhouse.
Live Wire and RoughHouse Theatre have joined forces to announce a revival of the critically acclaimed 2014/2015 Live Wire production of Dougie Blaxland’s Jane Eyre: an autobiography, which will be staged at Burton Taylor Studio on 29 & 30 September.
Produced by the creative team that won the National Campaign for the Arts Best Arts Project 2021, Jane Eyre: an autobiography has been hailed “a theatrical tour de force from a company with a rare gift for bringing classics to life with loyalty, energy and intrigue”.
The stage version of Charlotte Bronte’s classic has been adapted for the stage by award-winning writer and producer, Dougie Blaxland, and will be directed by RoughHouse Theatre’s Shane Morgan with Movement Director Moira Hunt.
Morgan commented, “Jane Eyre is a character whose resilience is deeply inspiring, and who, in spite of the isolation and abandonment of a loveless childhood, refuses to bend to the will of her abusers”.
At the heart of what Shane Morgan describes as a “contemporary reimagination of one of the greatest novels ever written” is a blend of classical and modern traditions in which an adaptation that is utterly faithful to Bronte’s original text is shaped and styled for a 21st-century audience.
Alison Campbell reprises her role in Jane Eyre: an autobiography, having played to audiences across the UK in the original production with a performance described, “as good as anything you will see on any stage in the UK”.
Jane Eyre: an autobiography opens at Phoenix Arts Bordon on 23 September and closes at The Ustinov Studio Bath from 13 to 15 October.
The full schedule:
- Tuesday, 23 September Phoenix Arts Bordon at 2.30pm and 7.30pm
- Wednesday, 24 September at Alma Tavern Theatre, Bristol at 8.00pm
- Thursday, 25 and Friday, 26 September at Greenwich Theatre, London at 7.30pm (additional matinee at 2.30pm on 26 September)
- Saturday, 27 September at Brewhouse, Taunton at 2.30pm and 7.30pm
- Monday, 29 & Tuesday 30 September at Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford at 7.30pm (additional matinee at 2.30pm on 30 September)
- Wednesday, 01 and Thursday, 02 October at Yvonne Arnaud Studio, Guildford at 7.45pm
- Thursday, 09 October at The Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis at 7.30pm
- Friday, 10 October at Cotswold Playhouse, Stroud at 7.30pm
- Monday, 13 to Wednesday, 15 October at The Ustinov Studio, Bath at 7.30pm
