Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Byre Theatre, St Andrews March 30

First published in 1847, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre has become one of the best loved works of female literature to come out of the 19th Century.

Now Bronte’s classic is being brought to the stage with a production in St Andrews next Thursday.

The story follows the emotions and experiences of the heroine as she grows through childhood and into adulthood.

Her home is the fictitious Thornfield Hall and she gradually falls in love with its Byronic master Mr Rochester.

Told through Jane’s eyes, English literature’s most celebrated autobiographical novel shocked the Victorians, and Charlotte Bronte’s Gothic subversion of fairy-tale romance is now distilled for the stage – under its full title – by writer/director Elton Townend Jones.

Performer Rebecca Vaughan embodies everywoman Jane – and several other characters – in this intimate study.

Konrad Wiszniewski and Euan Stevenson’s New Focus was originally a Stan Getz tribute.