National Theatre Live: Jane Eyre

Overview

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Cast

Madeleine Worrall

Jane Eyre

Felix Hayes

Edward Fairfax Rochester

N/A

Maggie Tagney

Mrs. Reed / Mrs. Fairfax

Laura Elphinstone

Helen Burns / Adèle Varens / St. John Rivers / Grace Poole / Abbot

Simone Saunders

Bessie / Blanche Ingram / Diana Rivers

N/A

Melanie Marshall

Bertha Mason