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Movement in Jane Eyre

Directing Drama English Performance skills Performing Arts Production Arts
Six members of the Jane Eyre company stand and sit on a raised wooden platform, all but one of them holding wooden frames above their heads.

Overview

Movement director Dan Canham and director Sally Cookson discuss the importance of movement and choreography as storytelling techniques in this dynamic, devised production of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.

One in a series of five films which uses interviews and production clips to explore the production.

Learning outcomes

This education resource will support students to understand how music is used in this production and how they can use it effectively in their own theatre-making.

It supports the study of devised theatre and music in GCSE Drama and A Level Drama and Theatre.

It also offers a new perspective for students studying the original novel for GCSE and A Level English Literature.

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A production image from 'Jane Eyre' at the National Theatre, 2017, featuring the character of Jane with her hands in the air and an arc of material floated up behind her
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Movement in Jane Eyre

Production information

Lyttelton Theatre, 2015 in a co-production with the Bristol Old Vic.

Jane Eyre, original novel by Charlotte Brontë; devised by the company; directed by Sally Cookson; set design by Michael Vale; costume design by Katie Sykes; lighting design by Aideen Malone; music composed and directed by Benji Bower; sound design by Mike Beer and Dominic Bilkey.

Photo © Brinkhoff Mogenburg

The full production is available to stream on the National Theatre Collection

Suitability

Suitable for 11+/KS3+

Keywords

Sally Cookson, Charlotte Brontë, Dan Canham, Devising, Music, GCSE English Literature, A Level English Literature, AQA, WJEC, OCR, Pearson Edexcel, Eduqas

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