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Vanessa Smith, Professor of English, University of Sydney

With The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the Sydney Theatre Company gives us a Brontë adaptation for our moment

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Review: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, directed by Jessica Arthur for the Sydney Theatre Company

“You know when it’s the autumn of 1827, and you’re sitting in a church, having the wrong sort of existential crisis?” Gilbert Markham (Remy Hii) asks the audience at the beginning of Emme Hoy’s compelling theatrical adaptation of Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848).

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