It is a touch of ingenuity, the relevance of which only becomes apparent when you hear the English governess expound on love and self-respect. Here is a 19th-century personality who forsakes Thornfield Hall when she finds out Mr Rochester already has a wife.
What an antithesis this is to the most talked-about TV drama in China, Dwelling Narrowness, in which attractive women consign themselves to the position of concubines so they can have a place of their own in this age of skyrocketing housing prices.
No wonder the play has clicked with audiences in present-day China.
Jane Eyre has a movie-like fluidity and constant set changes that require modern stage wizardry. On the other hand, Lin Zhaohua, the country's most eminent stage director, advocates the stripping away of all superfluous stage business. He feels that realistic and lavish sets are essentially 19th-century European.
"We don't really have a theatrical tradition, in the academic sense of the word," he said at a recent forum on theatrical art. But it's obvious he wants to create a new tradition - one that fuses the old Chinese style of minimalism, with modern Western abstractness.
Lin, born in 1936, has handled all kinds of productions with equal aplomb, but his penchant for the avant-garde has made him appear to be controversial. He strives to bring the cast closer to the audience, and sometimes the audience complains of not being able to understand what's going on.
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