Tickets, Money, Passport?

Just finished watching Wide Sargasso Sea. A bit disappointing, if I didn't already know what the story was or indeed what happens after I'd be a bit confused. Although perhaps no change there. I wonder, are characters supposed to be likeable, was it supposed to explain it? Her madness, his aloofness. Was it all down to class. I imagine so however it all seemed a bit rushed and out of, well, character.

More interestingly was that The First Mrs Rochester was played by Rebecca Hall, who played Sophy in the marvellous The Camomile Lawn. It was in this that she harboured a crush on Oliver, played by Toby Stephens. Who as it turns out is playing Mr Rochester in BBC's Jane Eyre adaptation. So she still loves him, just in a different tv adaptation

At the end of The Camomile Lawn, or truth be told the beginning, Sophy and Oliver see each other for the first time in many years and Oliver exclaims 'Good God! Sophy!' And so begins a beautiful friendship. Or something.

To join them further, in the stage version of The Brontes that I saw last year Natalia Tena played The First Mrs Rochester who tormented her creator Charlotte Bronte and is soon to be seen as Tonks in the next Harry installment, where Dame Maggie Smith - Toby's mother - plays Minerva McGonnagall.

It's getting more incestuous than an Australian soap opera.

So now you know.

Labels: Television