Live Wire and RoughHouse Theatre have joined forces for a revival of the critically acclaimed 2014-15 Live Wire production of Dougie Blaxland’s Jane Eyre: An Autobiography.

It will be staged at The Phoenix Theatre and Arts Centre in Bordon on September 23 at 2.30pm and 8pm.

Produced by the creative team that won the National Campaign for the Arts Best Arts Project 2021, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography has been hailed “a theatrical tour de force from a company with a rare gift for bringing classics to life with loyalty, energy and intrigue”.

The stage version of Charlotte Bronte’s novel has been adapted for the theatre by award-winning writer and producer Dougie Blaxland and will be directed by RoughHouse Theatre’s Shane Morgan with movement director Moira Hunt.

The book traces the life of Jane Eyre, an orphan who rises above a harsh and lonely childhood to work as a governess at Thornfield Hall. While there she falls in love with her enigmatic employer Mr Rochester, whose hidden past threatens their future.

Shane said: “Jane Eyre is a character whose resilience is deeply inspiring and who - in spite of the isolation and abandonment of a loveless childhood - refuses to bend to the will of her abusers.”

At the heart of what Shane describes as a “contemporary re-imagination of one of the greatest novels ever written” is a blend of classical and modern traditions in which an adaptation that is utterly faithful to Bronte’s original text is shaped and styled for a 21st-century audience.

Alison Campbell reprises her role in Jane Eyre: An Autobiography having played to audiences across the UK in the original production with a performance described “as good as anything you will see on any stage in the UK”.

For tickets, priced £17 (£16 concessions/members), visit www.phoenixarts.co.uk