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by erin thursby
scopes1925@msn.com
What: Jane Eyre
When: March 23rd @8PM
Where: The Nathan H. Wilson Center for the Performing Arts
For one night only, the stage production of Jane Eyre will be visiting Jacksonville at the Wilson Center, as part of the FCCJ artist’s series. EU got a chance to speak with Hannah Cabell, who plays Jane.
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EU: What’s the audience response been?
Cabell: It’s been pretty great across the board. I mean the interesting thing about taking this show to all these different places is that we perform in almost a different space a night. Every night we’re performing in a different size venue to totally different audiences…It’s a really solid production. People tend to be moved by it. I was really interested [in] setting out to see the response to it in different areas across the country…And that has been different, but they’ve all been enthusiastic.
EU: The book is really dense, so I can imagine it would be difficult to reduce down to play form. Is there anything in the book version that’s left out of the play version that you really miss?
Cabell: There was one major plot point that gets left out, but I don’t think it affects the story we’re telling in this production. We just saw the BBC version. We just watched it together last week, and I did envy how much time they had to build the relationship. We do have to move quickly…I also think that the adaptation is a good one, so that you still get the journey of Jane Eyre and the feeling that you get while reading the novel, but it’s been condensed a lot.
EU: Did you refer back to the book a lot?
Cabell: In rehearsal we kept going back to the book to get how things go from one event to another…It’s a very fluid production too, the set is very sparse and it moves so that the transitions from scene to scene are really very fluid…I feel like the audience is taken along on this journey; it’s not jarring going from one event to another.
EU: Your company does shows for kids as well as adults, is there a difference in their reaction to the show?
Cabell: I love doing it at schools, actually. Sometimes it’s hard because the kids don’t get as swept up into the story as adults tend to, but on the other hand, I really like hearing the vocal responses because there are a lot of surprises in Jane Eyre. So, hearing the kids respond…to these mysteries suddenly revealed is great.
EU: Because they haven’t necessarily read it, unlike adults.
Cabell: Exactly. It’s more of a new story to them.
EU: Is Jane a character you ever thought about playing beforehand?
Cabell: I actually had never read the book until I got the gig…I had read Jan Austen and all these different Victorian writers but not Charlotte Bronte…Once I got the gig I picked up the book immediately and I was so excited to try and play this character because her journey is so huge. In this production I get to play her at 10 and then again at 19. Like in the book, there’s this huge jump.
EU: She’s such an intense character.
Cabell: She is, she is…I’m never bored by her. She’s just so interesting, deep and psychologically complex that…there’s so much to discover.
For Tickets call (904) 632-3373 or go to www.artistseries.fccj.org
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