Name three Brontë novels...Jane Eyre....Wuthering Heights...yes? Something that Anne wrote? Anne, you say, who's Anne?

You know Anne, the youngest Brontë, author of two novels, passionate feminist, spinster, and generally nice girl. What novels?

Rebecca Roberts will bring Anne Brontë to life in September in our production of Brontë, and, Rebecca reassures us, after seeing this production, the youngest Brontë will no longer rest in the shadow of her older sisters.

 

Above: Rebecca Roberts dons

When I was first starting out as a theatre reviewer I received some advice from Katharine Brisbane, the doyenne of the form in Australia at that time and now the publisher and much-cherished theatre matriarch! I should choose: either keep my distance from the artists and players and run my own race; or get in close, to mix as much as a could with the very same people whose work I would be writing about. Brisbane herself had chosen the second option and she advised that it was more difficult - but, in her view, more rewarding.

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