“Dear Reader…” If you would, allow me but a moment to…Okay, that’s as far as that intro’s going to go. But please do allow me to tell you about Elizabeth Williamson’s adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel Jane Eyre, now playing at the Alley Theatre. The novel, about the life...
Melissa Molano as Jane Eyre and Chris Hutchison as Edward Fairfax Rochester in Alley Theatre ’s production ofIf you would, allow me but a moment to…Okay, that’s as far as that intro’s going to go.
Upon arriving at Thornfield, Jane learns from the housekeeper, Mrs. Fairfax, that her charge is Adèle, the young, French-speaking ward of the estate’s absentee owner, Mr. Edward Rochester. Jane spends three seemingly uneventful months settling into life at Thornfield – uneventful aside from the mysterious, cackling laugh that sometimes echoes from the house’s third story – when Mr. Rochester returns.
Williamson’s play is unfailingly faithful to its source material while being downright breezy in comparison to the 466-page brick that is Brontë’s novel . The tightness of the script, a delightfully successful distillation ofto its mostly romantic and occasionally spooky core, is a slap of wrongness to the face of anyone who thinks a work of 19th-century Victorian-era literature wouldn’t make for non-stop action or appease a 21st-century attention span.
Then there’s Joy Yvonne Jones, who earns laughs as the shade-throwing Blanche Ingram just as easily as she does with a single “uh uh” uttered as servant Leah. Todd Waite stealing focus, albeit briefly, as John, Colonel Dent and Mr. Wood, and Gabriel Regojo’s rigid St. John Rivers, though he stands out even more as Jane’s bratty cousin John Reed.
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