The Brontë sisters’ legend gets another going over in this rumbunctious but slender play by Sarah Gordon. It allows them to be not just feminist literary trailblazers martyred to tuberculosis and the patriarchy, but also jealous, competitive and selfish.
Especially Charlotte, who is played with brash charisma and micron-deep self-interest by TV favourite Gemma Whelan. Behind every great woman, she says, are a hundred other great women vying for her hard-won place at the table.
