Synopsis

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PREMIERE!

This fiercely intelligent play made its world premiere at the National Theatre in London. Anne Brontë steps out from the long shadow of her famous sisters as she confronts the literary machinery that elevates some voices while silencing others. Anne wrestles with ambition, legacy, and the cost of being overlooked. Blending humor with pointed insight, this work reclaims a narrative often left untold, inviting us to reconsider who gets remembered—and why.

Note from the Director

“I'm excited about exploring the Brontë sisters' sisterhood and the complications of navigating a patriarchal society while trying to leave a mark as a woman. I love an anti-hero - Don Draper, Tony Soprano -- what does that look like in a woman?

I hope audiences see the complexity behind Charlotte and spend a lot of time debating whether she should've done what she did in this show (no spoilers!)

In immigrant households and households of color, we see a lot of patterns of parents who mean well, but exhibit toxic behavior that is in part due to the trauma they inherited from their parents, or the society they grew up in. I specifically wanted to examine the intersectionality between being a woman in an 1840s patriarchal society and being BIPOC. 

It’s really about can you love someone and want to destroy them and all the gray areas in between. I've always found that kind of storytelling deeply human.” - Wynne Chan.

Cast

Raven Douglas…………….Charlotte
Aleisha Lew………………..Anne
Naomi Murray……………..Emily
Dan C…………..……………Branwell & Others
Joseph Alvarado…………..Mrs. Ingham & Others
Keith Larson……………….George Smith & Others
Jaime Melendez…………...Cunliffe & Others
Lauren Rhodes………….….Elizabeth Gaskell & Others
Leslie Newport Wright…….Thomas Newby & Others

Production Team

Director: Wynne Chan
Assistant Director: Karen Law
Lighting Designer: Raven Manalo
Sound Designer: Tina Vo
Costume Designer: Greet Jaspaert
Resident Stage and Production Manager: Kelly Weber Barraza
Technical Director: Louis Stone-Collonge
Intimacy & Fight Coordinator: Bessie Zolno
Projection Designer: Qian ZhanG

Runtime

To be determined.

Reviews & Press

“Richly entertaining.” – The Reviews Hub
“Enjoyably comic.” – The Arts Desk
“Quick-witted drama.” – The Guardian
“This blistering myth-buster hits the wuthering heights.” – London Theatre
“Gordon’s dialogue is blunt, funny and wilfully anachronistic.” – TimeOut
“A funny, bubbling, bolshie play about sisterhood, feminism, creativity and fame.” – Financial Times