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The Clemson Players, the university drama company, is busy gearing up for their presentation of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre at the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts beginning Saturday, September 29, and continuing through Sunday, October 7.
In addition to actors rehearsing their lines, students and faculty are designing and building the set, costumes, and stage lighting. “With just a few days before the show opens, things are pretty hectic,” said Mark Charney who is directing the classic tale’s newest adapation by Polly Teale.
Jane Eyre is Charlotte Bronte’s classic coming-of-age story of one of literature’s most independent and strong-willed women. Recognized as a masterpiece when it was published in 1847, Jane Eyre remains a startlingly blend of passion, romance, and suspense.
Adapted for the stage by British director and playwright Polly Teale in 1997, Jane Eyre chronicles the epic tale of a young orphan striving to survive in a world that seems to deny her happiness. 
Jane is poor, plain, and unloved. But locked up in the attic of her imagination lives a woman so passionate and so full of longing she must be guarded night and day for fear of the havoc she might wreak. Who is this woman who threatens to destroy Jane’s orderly word? A world where Jane has, for the first time, has fallen in love.
“Charlotte Bronte’s Victorian heroine is given a very contemporary spirit in Polly Teale’s brilliant, innovative, and challenging adaptation,” said Charney. “Audiences should expect to see the classic story reinterpreted in a truly feminist fashion, especially considering Teale’s strong interest in the internal conflict of the central character.”
The Clemson Players will present Jane Eyre in the Brooks Center’s intimate 100-seat Bellamy Theatre. Curtain times are at 8 p.m. Saturday, September 29; Monday-Friday, October 1-5; Sunday, October 7, and at 3 p.m. Sunday, September 30.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 students. For tickets and information go to www.clemson.edu/Brooks or call the box office Monday-Friday, 1-5 p.m. at (864) 656-7787.
