A bold reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen's tale of love, loss and desire, transported to a contemporary setting.Beneath the ocean's waves there is no death or pain or separation. Above, the modern world is beset with war, poverty and desire.On her sixteenth birthday, a mermaid rises up to the surface, leaving her childhood behind for ever when she falls in love with a mortal prince. She knows that she can no longer live at the bottom of the ocean - but must she destroy...

The hit show from Shared Experience Theatre Company based on the tortured and passionate life of Jean Rhys and her most famous book, Wide Sargasso Sea, the prequel to Jane Eyre.In Wide Sargasso Sea – 'one of the works of genius of the 20th century' The Times – Jean Rhys first gave voice to Bertha Mason, Mr Rochester's first wife in Jane Eyre.Polly Teale's play is a dramatisation of Rhys' life, placing Bertha on stage throughout a...

A compelling literary detective story about the turbulent lives of the Brontë sisters - dramatised by Polly Teale and Shared Experience, the team behind After Mrs Rochester and Jane Eyre.In 1845, Branwell Brontë returns home in disgrace, plagued by his addictions. As he descends into alcoholism and insanity, bringing chaos to the household, his sisters write…Polly Teale's extraordinary play evokes the real and imagined worlds of the Brontës, as their ficti...

A bold and theatrically inventive adaptation of the literary classic that puts the interior life of the novel on stage.As a child, the orphaned Jane Eyre is taught by a succession of severe guardians to stifle her natural exuberance. A part of herself is locked away, out of view of polite society... until she arrives at Rochester's house as a governess to his young child. Soon Rochester's passionate nature reawakens Jane's hidden self, but darker secrets are stirring in the attic.....