Autobiography of jane eyre review rotten tomatoes

Note: This review is from the 2016 Fringe

Never have the words ‘I married him’ been uttered with more unfettered triumph and knowing glee than by Rebecca Vaughan’s vibrant Jane in Dyad Productions’ Jane Eyre: An Autobiography.

This new play is based on the classic novel by Charlotte Bronte, but the words “vibrant” and “Jane” are not usually synonymous in the context of this tale of an abused orphan-turned-governess in northern England in the first half of the 19th century.

Certainly, the character possesses voracious intelligence and a fierce spirit forged in her own private childhood hell, but she is described in the novel – indeed, she describes herself – as ‘poor, obscure, plain and little’.

Jane is notoriously hard on herself, especially when it comes to stifling any nascent ideas that her employer, the archetypal “dark and brooding” Mr Rochester, could harbour an