a new play by Blake Morrison

Mon 7 - Sat 12 Nov

Haworth,Yorkshire in the 1840s. At the gloomy parsonage there are neither curtains nor comforts and Charlotte, Anne and Emily Brontë lead confined lives, intensely lived. But they light up their world with intelligence, wit, dreams and ideals . . . and they write.

Anyone who has read a Brontë novel cannot fail to be stirred by the humanity, the charged emotion and a brooding frustration with the status quo. Now come to know the people behind the prose.

Directed by Barrie Rutter, with superbly drawn characterizations, a nod to Chekhov and a touch of poetic licence, award-winning Blake Morrison has created a pearl of a play. He evokes with piercing clarity the lives and personalities of these three remarkable women.