Apart from making the play a little more accessible to some theatre-going punters little has changed in terms of the overall arc of the play. Any temptation to concentrate on the love story has been resisted, with due weight being given to what Rebecca Goldstein has referred to as, ‘mattering’, that is that self-reflection of an individual’s worth; a question which has been troubling us since Homer’s Illiad . . . The music underlines the emotional journey that mirrors the intellectual struggle that finds its flowering in the meeting of two minds, which is the bedrock of Jane’s relationship with Rochester.