After Mrs Rochester

By Polly Teale

Director - Angie LangfieldSound Designer - Munotida ChinyangaIntimacy Coordinator & Movement Director - Vanessa Ewan Accent Coach - Rebecca Gausnell  Voice Coach - Claudette WilliamsFight Director - Jonathan Leverett Costume Supervisor - Hannah McMahon-Major Production Supervisor - Shaz McGee BA (Hons) Acting Course Leader - Nick Moseley 

Performed by BA (Hons) Acting, working alongside students from the BA (Hons) Theatre Practice.

Creative Team - BA (Hons) Theatre Practice StudentsAssistant Director - Valeria BarajasSet & Costume Designer - Angelica RushLighting Designer - Jack Harris

Production Team - BA (Hons) Theatre Practice StudentsProduction Manager - Joe MonkStage Manager - Elísa Sif HermannsdóttirAssistant Production Manager - Edward CallowProduction Carpenter - William EdwardsDeputy Stage Manager - Chloe WilsonProps Buyer & Assistant Stage Manager - Suzie DubowskiChief Electrician - Megan CursonLighting Programmer - Steven FrostProduction Electrician - Simon MossProduction Sound Engineer - Amber CareySound Crew - Jessica Cluff, Leeluu Dallas King, William Howe, Isobel Mackintosh, Dylan Saberton, Ali Taie & Chloe TolandCostume Makers - Rachel McNutt & Moneka PratoCostume Makers & Dressers - Nenni Alenius, Yuval Dolev & George Hughes

Thanks to: Almeida Theatre, Imogen Brown, Alan Butler, Genia Colwill, Irena & Ed Dubowski, Tony Griffin, Chloe Hardwicke, Jadwiga Kalinska, Kiln Theatre, Lucy Mewis-McKerrow, Stuart Porter, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, TDM, Todd Smith, Michelle Wilson & Young Vic Theatre. 

Overview

The mad woman in the attic in Jane Eyre is placed centre stage in this intriguing examination of the life of Jean Rhys, author of the Wide Sargasso Sea - a novel that reinvents the life of Bertha, Mrs Rochester.

‘I thought I’d write the story as it might really have been. She seemed such a poor ghost. I thought I’d try to write her a life.’ Jean Rhys, Paris Review 1979.

Bertha becomes Jean’s alter ego. Both are locked, literally and metaphorically, and the key to their freedom is at the heart of Polly Teale’s moving and startling piece of theatre. After Mrs Rochester was first produced by Shared Experience in 2003.

By arrangement with Nick Hern Books.

Approximate running time: one hour and 55 minutes. There will be one interval.

Jean Rhys Amy Cotter

Ella, Her Younger Self Maddie Stoneman

Bertha Esther Tan

Daughter/Pupil/Voice Teacher/Maudie Tasha Lim

Tite/Meta Khadie Fall

Mother/Pupil/Chorus Girl/Landlady/Police Woman Ashlynn Majewski

Father/Gentleman/Theatre Manager/Man/Police Man/Ford Maddox Ford Simon Bigg

Rochester/Lancelot/John/Leslie Tilden Smith James Crouch

Jane/Teacher/Chorus Girl/Shop Assistant/Stella Amelia Pitcher

NB: Tickets are non-refundable. Please check in with the box office 15 minutes prior to the start of the show where you will receive an entrance token.

Proof of eligibility is required for all concessionary rate tickets.

The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama is fully wheelchair accessible, please speak with our box office team on 02077228183 if you have any further enquiries.

Event price

Tickets: £10/ £5 concessions. Complimentary tickets: industry and associated professionals.