|
Cast: |
6 (3 m, 3 f).
All 45 characters are normally played by the six actors. |
| Suggested
Age Range: |
15 upwards. |
| Approx.
Running Time: |
120 minutes [ +
interval] |
|
Music: |
Mixture of
traditional and original. Emily is the pianist for the traditional pieces; the
original songs are unaccompanied. |
|
Set: |
A large pulpit should
dominate the stage with a clear cyclorama behind; two areas represent rooms of
the Parsonage. The whole design should be stark. |
|
Synopsis: |
In the spring of
1820 the new incumbent moved into the Parsonage at Haworth, North Yorkshire,
with his dying wife and six small children. In those times only those with iron
constitutions lived beyond the age of thirty and only the Parson himself and
his son-in-law lived into old age. But this was a power-house of creative
energy - reams of prose and verse, blood, fire, torrential passions and granite
love. They lived largely in a dream world and, although Charlotte achieved fame
in her lifetime and there were brief bursts of fun, this is a gothic melodrama
and a human tragedy. It takes off on flights of imagination and euphoria and
returns finally to cold reality. |
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