Jane Eyre

Summary: 1946 BBC live studio production of the Embassy Theatre Company’s production of Helen Jerome’s theatrical adaptation of the novel Jane Eyre.
Theatre play: Jane Eyre by Helen Jerome [more information]
Play synopsis: A theatrical adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's novel of the same name. ‘Young Jane Eyre comes to Thornfield, the estate of the brooding Rochester, to be a governess to Adele, his child-ward. Rochester is an unhappy man with lunatic wife whom he must keep locked up. As Jane’s presence begins to lighten his mood, they come to an understanding which it is assumed will lead to marriage. However, Jane discovers Rochester’s secret of the the locked room and leaves Thornfield, returning to discover that the lunatic has burned down the estate killing herself in the fire, leaving Rochester free to marry Jane’ (source: http://www.samuelfrench.com/p/3026/jane-eyre).
Production history: A production of Jerome’s Jane Eyre at the Aldwych Theatre, London in 1936 seems to be the first staging; the play was thereafter regularly revived in the UK and the USA (see H. Philip Bolton’s Women Writers Dramatized, London: Mansell, p. 88 ff.).
Date of transmission: Sunday 29 September 1946
Time: 8.30-10.00pm
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC
Theatre company: Embassy Theatre Company

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Harold Clayton

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