Jane Eyre
Adapted by Elizabeth Williamson from the novel by Charlotte Brontë
Directed by Dawn Monique Williams
Ashland, OR at the Oregon Shakespeare Fetival May 31 – October 11, 2024
Jane Eyre cast members Caroline Schaffer, Thilini Dissanyake, Jennie Greenberry. Photo by Jenny Graham.
I cannot do a true review of this performance. I would have had to stay past intermission to give a comprehensive report on the show and I and one other playgoing friend just had no desire to come back for Act II.
Director Dawn Monique Williams did a fine job of replicating a slow, overwrought Victorian novel. So much elaborateness and so little to focus on in my philistine opinion.
The acting and onstage progression were unremarkable. Well done, but it ultimately failed my test of who cares.
A 2-star evening… if I had stayed.
