After Mrs. Rochester: a play ; based on the life of Jean Rhys

The hit show from Shared Experience Theatre Company based on the tortured and passionate life of Jean Rhys and her most famous book, Wide Sargasso Sea, the prequel to Jane Eyre. In Wide Sargasso Sea - 'one of the works of genius of the 20th century' Times - Jean Rhys first gave voice to Bertha Mason, Mr Rochester's first wife in Jane Eyre. Placing Bertha on stage throughout as Jean's alter ego, this dramatization of Rhys' life gives full vent to her obsession with the "mad woman in the attic". 'a revelation, a rare feat of theatrical imagining' - Evening Standard 'true dramatic dynamism - breathes new life into both subject and form' - Independent 'has the imaginative fluency and depth of feeling that audiences have come to expect from Shared Experience at its best - a major success' - Sunday Telegraph 'stunning... total theatre' - Mail on Sunday epub,ebook,QuarkXPress "After Mrs. Rochester is a dramatisation of both the tortured life of writer Jean Rhys, but also of her most famous book: The Wide Sargasso Sea, a sequel to Jane Eyre." "Jean Rhys was obsessed with Jane Eyre - and more particularly with Bertha Mason, the first Mrs. Rochester and the 'madwoman in the attic'. Placing Bertha on stage throughout as Jean's alter ego, Polly Teale's remarkable dramatisation of Rhys's life gives full vent to this obsession - which was to prove the catalyst for The Wide Sargasso Sea."--BOOK JACKET Jean Rhys was obsessed with Jane Eyre and more particularly with Bertha Mason, the first Mrs. Rochester and the "madwoman in the attic." Placing Bertha on stage throughout as Jeans alter ego, Polly Teales remarkable dramatization of Rhys life gives full vent to this obsessionwhich was to prove the catalyst for The Wild Sargasso Sea . Jean Rhys was fascinated with Jane Eyre - and more particularly with Bertha Mason, the first Mrs Rochester and the "madwoman in the attic". Placing Bertha on stage throughout as as Jean's alter ego, this dramatisation of Rhys's life gives full vent to this obsession A dramatisation of the extraordinary life of Jean Rhys, in which themes of femininity, literature and hysteria and madness collide with vivid force. By Polly Teale. Based On The Life Of Jean Rhys. Sharedexperience--cover.