Unity

After Mrs Rochester, written by Polly Teake dramatizes the tortured life of Jean Rhys; author of The Wide Sargasso Sea.

Rhys was obsessed with Jane Eyre - and more particularly with Bertha Mason, the first Mrs Rochester and the ‘madwoman in the attic’. Placing Bertha on stage throughout as Jean’s alter ego, Polly Teale’s remarkable dramatisation of Rhys’s life gives full vent to her obsession - which was to prove the catalyst for The Wide Sargasso Sea.