After Mrs. Rochester (2011)
Produced by
Playwright: Polly Teale
Director: Laura Roald
Venue
Run
September 23rd, 2011 – October 8th, 2011
Synopsis
Jean Rhys was a troubled, Caribbean-born chorus girl turned writer who strongly identified with a fictional counterpart – Mr. Rochester’s mad first wife in Charlotte Brontë‘s classic 1847 novel Jane Eyre. In 1966, after decades of silence, Jean Rhys produced her masterpiece, a Jane Eyre prequel titled Wide Sargasso Sea told from the perspective of Rochester’s unhappy West Indian bride. British playwright Polly Teale’s labyrinthine drama interweaves the demons haunting Jean with her fictional obsession to explore their toll on the writer’s stormy life. (mooneyontheatre.com)
Cast
| Susan Q Wilson | Jean Rhys |
| Laura Jabalee Johnston | Jean’s Daughter/Jane Eyre / Gilly / Maudie |
| Tina McCulloch | Mrs. Bertha Rochester |
| Jessica Rose | Ella |
| Julie Burris | Ella’s Mother / Chorus Girl / Landlady / Police Officer / Stella |
| Kanika Ambrose | Tite / Meta / Chorus Girl |
| Laine Newman | Ella’s Father / Voice Teacher / Lancelot / Lenglet / Husband |
| Tabitha Keast | Rochester / Gentleman / Teacher / Theatre Manager / Shop Assistant/Man / Police Officer / Ford Madox Ford |
Creative Team
| Polly Teale | Playwright |
| Laura Roald | Director |
| Taryn Jorgenson | Assistant Director |
| Laura Roald | Set Designer |
| Paul Hardy | Lighting Designer |
| Megan Benjafield | Sound Designer |
| P. J. Hammond | Costume Designer |
| Chris Mott | Fight Director |
Production
| Karen Elizabeth | Stage Manager |
| P. J. Hammond | Producer |
| Tabitha Keast | Producer |
| Lynda Yearwood | Props Co-Ordinator |
| John Fleming | Dialect Coach |
| Emily Macnaughton | Assistant Stage Manager |
| Angus Barlow | Sound Operator |
| Susan Down | Lighting Operator |
| Stacy Halloran | Lighting Operator |
| Cameron Lapp | Master Carpenter |
| Howard Smith | Set Construction Crew |
| Karen Elizabeth | Set Construction Crew |
| Vivien Fierson | Scenic Painter |
| Roxann Ritchie | Scenic Painter |
| Angus Barlow | Lighting Hang Crew |
| Jon Maybury | Lighting Hang Crew |
| Karen Elizabeth | Lighting Hang Crew |
| Tina McCulloch | Marketing |
| Tina McCulloch | Publicity Director |
| Jo-Anne Wurster | Reservations Manager |
| Sandra Schneider | Opening Night Reception |
| Bev Atkinson | Opening Night Reception |
| Suzanne Courtney | Web Goddess |
| Dahlia Katz | Production Photographs |
