Jane Eyre NT - YouTube

[ardcarp]

Did anyone see the National Theatre's 're-imagining' of Jane Eyre this evening? It's available on YouTube for a week.
Good in parts, I thought. It does rather depend on the audience knowing the story.

[DracoM]

Thx for heads up.

[Dave2002]

We've seen it before, but enjoyed it again. We also fretted about whether we'd seen it at the theatre or in a cinema previously. So many details we can't really remember, though I think the set was much darker when we saw it before.

[LMcD]

We've seen it before, but enjoyed it again. We also fretted about whether we'd seen it at the theatre or in a cinema previously. So many details we can't really remember, though I think the set was much darker when we saw it before.

These NT productions were previously shown in cinemas.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I hadn’t seen this before. Once I got into it, I began to appreciate the production. I particularly liked the way Pilate was given a more prominent role.

Also the quotation from the Thunderstorm from Eine Alpensinfonie.

[Dave2002]

These NT productions were previously shown in cinemas.

Were they only in cinemas?

[LMcD]

Were they only in cinemas?

I understood they were live screenings from the NT on a particular date - what our local picture palace calls 'Event Cinema' which often features opera.

[Dave2002]

I understood they were live screenings from the NT on a particular date - what our local picture palace calls 'Event Cinema' which often features opera.

That’s what I thought, so it still doesn’t “solve” the mystery of our memory failure, whether we saw it at the theatre or not.

[Sir Velo]

Did anyone see the National Theatre's 're-imagining' of Jane Eyre this evening?

What's wrong with CB's prose?

[ardcarp]

Because directors CBA to use it?

But seriously, even without the re-imagining bit, you can't use the text of a novel for the stage without adapting it. How far theatres, script-writers and directors want to re-imagine is up to them. At least this production didn't try to time-shift.

[alywin]

Oh blast, I'd forgotten this one. Something else to try and fit in before it disappears ...

[ardcarp]

So much to do when 'locked down'.
Someone in today's Guardian clearly has some leisure time though, inventing two new cocktails, the Loctini and the Quarantini. The latter should maybe have a small yellow flag as a decoration. (Sailors will know what I mean.)