First on this program, you'll hear Joanna Gleason read from the original. Gleason is a Tony Award-winning actress who is known for her roles on Broadway in “I Love My Wife,” “Joe Egg,” “It’s Only a Play,” “Into the Woods,” and “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.” Her extensive film career includes roles in “Heartburn,” “Boogie Nights,” “Crimes and Misdemeanors,” “The Skeleton Twins,” “Hannah and Her Sisters,” and “Sex in the City.” Her television credits include recurring roles on “ER,” “The West Wing,” “The Practice,” “Tracey Ullman,” “Friends,” “The Good Wife,” “Blue Bloods,” and “The Affair.”
Next, we offer a rebuttal from Rochester, in Salley Vickers' "Reader, She Married Me." Vickers' novels include Miss Garnet's Angel, Mr. Golightly's Holiday, and The Cleaner of Chartres. Reader Chris Sarandon was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in “Dog Day Afternoon.” Other films include “The Princess Bride,” “Fright Night,” and “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” On television, he has had recurring roles on “Judging Amy,” “Stark Raving Mad,” “Felicity,” “ER,” “Law & Order,” and “Orange Is the New Black.” He has appeared on Broadway in “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” “Nick & Nora,” “The Light in the Piazza,” and “Cyrano de Bergerac.”
Our final story is by Audrey Niffenegger, author of the fantasy-tinged novels The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, and a favorite story of ours, "The Night Bookmobile.” Niffenegger’s most recent work, with Eddie Campbell, is the collection Bizarre Romance. For Chevalier’s anthology, Niffenegger chose to look at an earlier period in Jane Eyre's difficult life: her time at the orphanage. But this Jane has been transported to a dystopian world that is not Eyre's London. "The Orphan Exchange," is read by Tovah Feldshuh, whose long career on stage, film, and television includes roles in “Golda's Balcony” and “Yentl,” “Holocaust” and “Law & Order,” and most recently, “The Walking Dead.”
