Dr Jane, the lady in white.
The stage is a chess board for this evening’s musical (see the Chess post). Dr Jane is the White Queen; she can move in any direction.
This month it’s Middlemarch by George Eliot, brick-sized and dense, ‘the book Tolstoy said made his great novels possible’.
We settle down for an hour of biography, character analysis, political, social and religious context, text analysis. Guess what? It’s fun. George Elliott becomes a friend we’re gossiping about (in a nice way, of course, most of the time).
The lights go up. ‘Oh! Look at you all!’ Dr Jane beams and we beam back. Now for questions. There’s never enough time. It’s over too soon.
We spend an hour with a different genius each month. It lifts us up, broadens our horizons. Next month we’ll find out all about Erich Maria Remarque – All Quiet on the Western Front. Can’t wait.
-Jenny Clarkson, box office assistant
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