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Underdog: the Other, Other Brontë, National Theatre review - enjoyably comic if caricatured sibling rivalry by Heather Neill

Gemma Whelan discovers a mean streak under Charlotte's respectable bonnet The Brontë sisters and their ne'er-do-well brother will always make good copy. The brilliance of the women constrained by life in a Yorkshire parsonage contrasts dramatically with the wild moors around their home, while their early deaths lend romance and tragedy to their life stories. Mythologised they may be, but their strength and determi…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:02PM on April 4, 2024

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