THE next production from National Theatre Live series to be screened at Cinema Nouveau is Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel Jane Eyre. Filmed at the National Theatre in London, Jane Eyre releases on Saturday, January 23 at Cinema Nouveau theatres countrywide, for limited screenings.

This acclaimed re-imagining of Brontë’s masterpiece was first staged by Bristol Old Vic in the United Kingdom last year. Director Sally Cookson’s celebrated production then transferred to the National Theatre.

From her beginnings as a destitute orphan, Jane Eyre’s spirited heroine faces life’s obstacles head-on, surviving poverty, injustice and the discovery of bitter betrayal, before taking the ultimate decision to follow her heart.

Almost 170 years on, Charlotte Brontë’s story of the trail-blazing Jane is as inspiring as ever. This bold and dynamic production uncovers one woman’s fight for freedom and fulfilment on her own terms.

The cast featured in this production includes Benji Bower, Will Bower, Elly Condron, Craig Edwards, Laura Elphinstone, Felix Hayes, Richard Hurst, Phil King, Melanie Marshall, Simone Saunders, Jools Scott, Maggie Tagney, Stevie Thompson, Joannah Tincey, Ellena Vincent and Madeleine Worrall as Jane.

The production has set designs by Michael Vale, costumes by Katie Sykes, lighting by Aideen Malone, music by Benji Bower, sound by Mike Beer, movement by Dan Canham and dramaturgy by Mike Akers.

To watch the trailer click on this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oTecp7Q7nE

There will be four screenings of the production: on January 23, 27 and 28 January at 7.30 pm and on 24 January at 2.30 pm at Cinema Nouveau theatres in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town.  The running time of this production is three hours and 20 minutes, including an interval.

For booking information visit www.cinemanouveau.co.za or sterkinekor.mobi. For queries, contact Ticketline on 0861 Movies (668 437). 

National Theatre Live enables audiences to experience the best of British theatre throughout the year, as the NT brings cameras into the auditorium to record and broadcast performances from stage to screen.

Almost four million people have experienced an NT Live broadcast via satellite, both live and time-delayed, in more than 2 000 venues in over 40 different countries around the world, including South Africa, since NT Live’s first season, which began in June 2009 with the acclaimed production of Phédre starring Helen Mirren.

Forthcoming productions from NT Live, to be screened at Cinema Nouveau, include:

• The Donmar Warehouse production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Christopher Hampton’s stage adaptation of Laclos’ 1782 novel of sex, intrigue and betrayal in pre-revolutionary France, with Dominic West, to be screened from 05 March 2016
• From the National Theatre, Shakespeare’s AS YOU LIKE IT, with Rosalie Craig as Rosalind, to be screened from 19 March 2016.