Bronte Sisters: Independent Reflective Study
Play Folio
On the 22nd and 23rd of October 2012, our Theatre Performance will be performing our end of year showcase, Brontë: The life and the literature. The plays performed within the showcase will be Brontë and Jane Eyre. The two plays were chosen because Brontë explores the lives of the Brontë sisters and mentions their literally achievements and Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë (adapted by Polly Teale), explores the struggle of a woman choosing between her head and heart, a pressure felt by all the Brontë sisters. I play the character of Anne Brontë in Brontë by Polly Teale.
Polly Teale is a British award-winning playwright. Since 1995 Teale has been working with the theatre company Shared Experience. Teale has gained acclaim through her plays based around the Brontë sisters, After Mrs Rochester and her adaption of Jane Eyre. After writing these successful plays, she thought about her inspirations behind them; the Brontë sisters. Once Teale did intensive research she wrote a play based on their lives called Brontë.
Brontë is an expressionistic piece of theatre. The play starts with a group of actors who are intrigued by the Brontë sisters, and after discussing their research in the first scene, they slowly cast themselves as each character and start embodying them. It is set in a non-liner timeline and jumps in and out of different times to explore the main events that occurred during their lives and influenced each person. Themes of Brontë include the importance of family and the restrictions of being in a lower class family and a woman of the era.
Anne Brontë is the youngest sibling in the Brontë family. Throughout the non-liner time line we see Anne in childhood at 5, all the way through till her death at 29. The Brontë family lived in Yorkshire. Two of Anne’s older sisters and mother are deceased. The remaining family members, Patrick, Branwell, Charlotte and Emily lived in Haworth parsonage. The family lived in harsh conditions, in a
On the 22nd and 23rd of October 2012, our Theatre Performance will be performing our end of year showcase, Brontë: The life and the literature. The plays performed within the showcase will be Brontë and Jane Eyre. The two plays were chosen because Brontë explores the lives of the Brontë sisters and mentions their literally achievements and Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë (adapted by Polly Teale), explores the struggle of a woman choosing between her head and heart, a pressure felt by all the Brontë sisters. I play the character of Anne Brontë in Brontë by Polly Teale.
Polly Teale is a British award-winning playwright. Since 1995 Teale has been working with the theatre company Shared Experience. Teale has gained acclaim through her plays based around the Brontë sisters, After Mrs Rochester and her adaption of Jane Eyre. After writing these successful plays, she thought about her inspirations behind them; the Brontë sisters. Once Teale did intensive research she wrote a play based on their lives called Brontë.
Brontë is an expressionistic piece of theatre. The play starts with a group of actors who are intrigued by the Brontë sisters, and after discussing their research in the first scene, they slowly cast themselves as each character and start embodying them. It is set in a non-liner timeline and jumps in and out of different times to explore the main events that occurred during their lives and influenced each person. Themes of Brontë include the importance of family and the restrictions of being in a lower class family and a woman of the era.
Anne Brontë is the youngest sibling in the Brontë family. Throughout the non-liner time line we see Anne in childhood at 5, all the way through till her death at 29. The Brontë family lived in Yorkshire. Two of Anne’s older sisters and mother are deceased. The remaining family members, Patrick, Branwell, Charlotte and Emily lived in Haworth parsonage. The family lived in harsh conditions, in a