Last February, director Sally Cookson shrunk Charlotte Brontë's 400-page novel Jane Eyre down to a four-and-a-half-hour play spread across two nights at the Bristol Old Vic. Now, as this co-production finally arrives at the National Theatre, it has slimmed still further " shedding one hour and one night to become a (comparatively) brisk Hamlet-length evening of physically and sensorily-charged theatre.read more
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:09PM on September 17, 2015