In this play, young Branwell Bronte, who once ruled an imaginary world,
is now a man, grown mad trying to cope with the real one. Having failed
as a poet and painter, as doomed in love as he is in literature, he
slips ever more quickly down the road of drink, drugs and despair. His
loving father Patrick and talented sister Charlotte fight a last-ditch
stand for his salvation, but it is Branwell's sinister friend,
gravedigger John Brown, who threatens to have the last word in this
ultimately terrifying take on the brilliant family we have read so much
about and all thought we knew so well. In 2013, The Bronte Society
sponsored a new production of The Bronte Boy for performance at the
Society's International AGM weekend.