Charlotte Brontë has a confession about how one sister became an idol, and the other became known as the third sister. You know the one. No, not that one. The other, other one… Anne.
This is not a story about well-behaved women. This is a story about the power of words. It’s about sisters and sisterhood, love and jealousy, support and competition.
Sarah Gordon’s play is an irreverent retelling of the life and legend of the Brontë sisters, and the story of the sibling power dynamics that shaped their uneven rise to fame.
In line with our EDI policy, we undertake an EDI impact assessment of all our artistic programming. This play deals with the issue of historical gender discrimination. For the purposes of the story narrative, specific playing gender identifications are called for. Otherwise there can be flexibility around casting with regard to ethnicity, age and disability.