Not content with staging Chris Bush’s lucid new adaptation of Jane Eyre, the Stephen Joseph theatre is throwing on a whole Brontë festival. On the streets of Scarborough, Lisa Cagnacci’s audio walking tour gives you a blast of constitutional sea air before leading you up the hill to Anne Brontë’s grave. Back in the theatre, there are film screenings, children’s play sessions and, on Thursday, a brilliant lecture on Charlotte Brontë by Sassy Holmes of the Brontë Parsonage Museum.
She makes connections between Jane Eyre and Taylor Swift’s Invisible String by way of Cary Joji Fukunaga’s 2011 movie, before picking apart the protofeminist significance of the oft-quoted “Reader, I married him”.
