Plays

1848 Jane Eyre, or the Secrets of Thornfield Manor

Adapted by John Courtney

This play was referred to in letters from Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams.


1849 Jane Eyre

Drama in Five Acts by John Brougham

Performed in New York with Miss Wemys and Mr. J. Gilbert and revised in 1856 with Laura Keene as Jane.

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1854 Die Waise Von Lowood

Adapted by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer and performed in New York in German.


1866 Jane Eyre

Adapter unknown

Performed in St. Louis Olympic Theatre, in October.


1870 Jane Eyre or the Orphan of Lowood

Adapted by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer, English version of her German play.

Performed by Mme. Marie Seebach and her dramtic company in New York.


1871 Jane Eyre, or the Orphan of Lowood

English adapation by Clifton W. Tayleure, of Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer's German version.


1874 Jane Eyre

Adapted by J.S. Houghton

Philadelphia


1876 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Anna Dickinson


1879 Jane Eyre

Adapted by T. H. Paul

A drama in 3 acts


1882 Jane Eyre

Adapted by W. G. Willis

Mrs. Bernard Breere as Jane Eyre.


1883 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Charlotte Thompson

Thompson played Jane in Tayleure's version in New York, Boston, and Buffalo.


1888 Jane Eyre or Poor Relations

Adapted by James Willing, J.T. Douglass, and Leonard Rae.


1909 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Miron Leffingwell

Chicago

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1920 The Master of Thornfield

Adapted by Rose Bachelis Shomer and Miriam Shomer-Zunser


1926 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Phyllis Birkett


1936 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: A Dramatisation in Three Acts

Adapted by Marjorie Chalmers Carleton


1936 Jane Eyre: A Drama of Passion in Three Acts

Adapted by Helen Jerome

Original U.K. production had Curigwen Lewis as Jane and Reginald Tate as Rochester and Dorothy Hamiliton as "The Maniac". This production was later aired on British television in 1937

U.S. stage production featured Katharine Hepburn as Jane (images)


1944 The Master of Thornfield

Adapted by Dorothy Brandon

British production with Rosalinde Fuller as Jane and Henry Edwards as Rochester


1945 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Jane Kendall


1955 Jane Eyre

Joan Swift as Jane and Desmond Hettle as Rochester

by the Dewsbury Pioneers Amateur Operatic Society


1958 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Huntington Hartford


1959 Jane Eyre, A Play from the Novel by Charlotte Bronte

Adapted by Constance Cox


1964 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Brian Tyler


1972 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Joan E. Morgan

Jill Hopwood as Jane and Leonard McDonald as Rochester


1973 Jane Eyre

Adapted by John Cannon

Jacquie Dubin as Jane, Charles McKeown as Rochester


1978 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Lionel Hamilton


1978 Jane Eyre

Directed by Kazue Kontaibo

Japanese play


1983 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Christopher Martin


1983 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Charles Vance


1984 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Jonathan Myerson

Jenny Seagrove as Jane


1985 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Sheila Haughey


1985 The Childhood of Jane Eyre

Adapted by Sylvia Wharton


1986 Jane Eyre

Adapted and directed by Peter Coe


1986 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Fay Weldon


1988 Shadow in the Glass

Adapted by Valerie Lucas and David Cottis

based on Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea


1988 Young Jane Eyre

An adaptation of the first nine chapters of "Jane Eyre", adapted by Marisha Chamberlain

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1989 Jane Eyre

Adapted and directed by Annette Marten


1989 Jane Eyre

Adapted and directed by Judy Yordon


1990 More Than One Antoinette

Adapted by Debbie Shewell

Combines Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea


1991 The Haunting of Jane Eyre

Loki Theatre Co-operative

Combines Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea


1991 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Timothy Madigan


1991 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Christina Calvit

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1992 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Willis Hall


1992 Lowood

Adapted by Margaret Schooling


1993 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Nick Jones


1992 Jane Eyre

First performed in October of 1992, this is a one woman show adapted and performed by Lisa Hayes.

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1997 Jane Eyre

Adapted and directed by Polly Teale


1998 Jane Eyre: a dramatization

Adapted by Robert Johanson

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2002 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Julie Beckham

Directed by David Crowe

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2007 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Zsótér Sándor

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2007 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Alan Stanford

Directed by John Miller-Stephany

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Feb. 2008 Jane Eyre

Adapted by N. G. McClernan

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April 2011 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Amber Miller


November 2011 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Martina Montelius.

Translation by Jana Hallberg

Directed by Brigitte Obermeier

With: Jens Gärtner, Martin Hanns, Horst Kiss, Brigitte Obermeier, Johanna Trahndorff, Luise Weber

Presented by" Theater Sommerhaus -Sommerhausen, Bavaria, Germany


May 2013 Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Adapted by Daniel Kramer

An Available Light Theatre production


Jan-April 2013 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Laura Turner

Presented by Hull Truck Theatre

Cast of three plays all the characters

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April 2013 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Bryony J. Thompson

Review


April 2013 Jane Eyre

Adapted by Julie Beckman

Starring Sarah Cannon and Shaun Sheley

Mustard Seed Theatre production


May 2013 Jane Eyre, A Memory, A Fever, A Dream

Adapted by Daniel Elihu Kramer

Presented by Available Light Theatre


August 2013 Jane Eyre

Shanghai Ballet Company

Director: Xin Lili

Writer: Yu Rongjun,

Choreographer Patrick de Bana


February 2014 Jane Eyre

Bristol Old Vic

A presentation in two parts

Director: Sally Cookson

Jane: Madeleine Worrall

Rochester: Felix Hayes


June 2014 "Jane Eyrová"

Těšinske divadlo, Česky Těšiň, Czech Republic

Jane: Adéla Krulikovská

Rochester: Zdenek Hrabal

Directing and adaptation: Simona Nyitrayová


2019 - 2020 Jane Eyre

Produced by Blackeyed Theatre

Jane: Kelsey Short

Rochester: Ben Warwick

Adapted by Nick Lane