National Theatre Live: Jane Eyre

The story

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Cast & crew

Madeleine WorrallJane Eyre

Felix HayesEdward Fairfax Rochester

Maggie Tagney

Maggie TagneyMrs. Reed / Mrs. Fairfax

Laura ElphinstoneHelen Burns / Adèle Varens / St. John Rivers / Grace Poole / Abbot

Simone SaundersBessie / Blanche Ingram / Diana Rivers

Melanie Marshall

Melanie MarshallBertha Mason