JESSICA ARTHUR
Director
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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When Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was published in 1848, it became an instant sensation. The stirring and groundbreaking story of Helen Graham and her mysterious arrival in the town of Lindenhope – a young son in tow, no husband in sight and a painful secret in her past – so shocked and galvanised English society with its frank depiction of an abusive relationship that Brontë’s equally famous sister (Jane Eyre’s Charlotte Brontë) sought to prevent its republication. Now, almost two centuries after The Tenant of Wildfell Hall’s scandalous publication, Emme Hoy mines this pioneering classic to produce an entrancing, ingenious, and passionate period drama for the twenty-first Century.
Writer: Anne Brontë, adapted by Emme Hoy
Director: Jessica Arthur
Set Design: Elizabeth Gadsby
Costume Design: Renee Mulder
Lighting Design: Trent Suidgeest
Composition and Sound Design: Clemence Williams
Assistant Director: Megan Wilding
Cast: Danielle Catanzariti, Remy Hii, Tara Morice, Tuuli Narkle, Ben O'Toole, Steve Rodgers, Eliza Scott, Anthony Taufa, Nikita Waldron
Photographer: Prudence Upton
Roslyn Packer Theatre for Sydney Theatre Company | July/August 2022
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Limelight ★★★★