Citizens Theatre, Glasgow 3 stars An all-pervading slate-grey gloom hangs over Polly Teale's impressionistic biography of the three most famous female siblings in English literature. It's not just the spartan austerity of Ruth Sutcliffe's bare floorboarded set, on which sits little more than a wooden table and chairs for comfort. Nor is it the way Chahine Yavroyen's lighting blurs between starkness and shadows. It's something instead about how Nancy Meckler's bare-bones revival of her 2005 production for Shared Experience taps into the way Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte each seem to inhabit a space beyond the daily grind that no-one else can touch, and which liberates them even as it roots them to the spot. So when Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Cathy from Wuthering Heights burst onto the stage, it's as if all the women's desires have exploded into a vivid technicolour daydream that can't contain their inner lives anymor
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