This version of Jane Eyre: The Autobiography coming to the Brewhouse in Taunton is a tour de force

The play in question is Jane Eyre: An Autobiography which is told through Jane’s eyes, English literature’s most celebrated autobiographical novel shocked the Victorians, and Charlotte Brontë’s gothic subversion of fairy-tale romance is now distilled for the stage – under its full title – by writer/director Elton Townend Jones.

The star of the show is Rebecca Vaughan who plays all 24 characters.

Speaking about the play, Rebecca said: "We are going back to the original novel.

"The book was originally written as an autobiography and was not seen as novel.

"People were shocked by the fact this woman who was a governess was talking about living with a married man who wanted to marry her but would have had to commit bigamy.

"I was really interested in the novel and wanted to do something more than a period costume drama.

"I think we tend to sugar coat the past and by looking at it afresh is an interesting experiment.

"The novel was written under a non-de plume and was not what was seen in a usual Victorian novel.

"In the novel Jane is angry and so modern and the response we have had from the audiences has been amazing.

"Jane Eyre is multi-faceted.

"We see the way in which Jane is trapped just as much as Rochester is trapped as is Bertha Antoinetta Mason Rochester who is Mr Rochester's crazy wife and is locked in the attic."

Rebecca described her play for her as being 'a joyful play with an interesting character'.

She added: "We learn about how woman are trapped by being owned by their father and if he died their brother and then being owned by their husbands.

"They cannot leave the house when single without a chaperon and only leave the house when married with their husband.

"What Jane learns is she has to be true to herself and trust her own instincts.

"She is critical of the age she lives in.

"Her weakness would be in her early years she was too easily swayed and sometime does not listen.

"She adores and loves Rochester and she should leave him but she does not listen.

"Jane was in many respects a modern woman who was intelligent and educated.

"Many woman like her could not believe how trapped their were and probably felt like howling at the moon.

"If Jane Eyre was living today she would be a blogger, a journalist, she would be interested in what was going on in the world.

"She would be on social media, she would be thinking about life.

"What I hope people get from the play are two things.

"One if they have never read the novel then I hope it makes them want to go away and read it.

"If they have read it I hope they believe we have done it justice."

Jane Eyre:An Autobiography is on at the Brewhouse Theatre at 7.30pm on September 13.

Tickets for the play cost adult from £12; student from £10 and schools from £8.

They can be bought online at thebrewhouse.net or by calling the box office on 01823 283 244.