Kazuko Hohki's Wuthering Heights

It seems that the Love & Madness version of Wuthering Heights is not the only WH that has been on stage this winter in the United Kingdom. Another one has been premiered at the BAC Festival (Lavender Hill, London) last October. As a matter of fact, the play is more a revisitation than a version:

Wuthering Heights
BAC Associate Artist Kazuko Hohki teams up with Colin Carmichael and Siggi Eyberg of Brian - "the boyband of British theatre" - to revisit Emily Bronte's classic tale of passion on the Yorkshire Moors, as seen through the eyes of a Japanese tourist, and some very curious sheep.

A BAC Scratch commission Kazukho Hohki’s work is produced by Your Imagination.

It seems that Kazuko Hohki made properly her research according to this information:

Musician, animator, director, performer and storyteller Kazuko Hohki, who delighted audiences in May 2004 with her show My Husband is a Spaceman, is working with The Nuffield Theatre, for a year as their ‘Time and Space’ artist. (...)
Kazuko is currently working in Haworth, West Yorkshire, exploring the fascination that her compatriots have with Emily Brontë’s classic novel Wuthering Heights. Hawarth has become something of a pilgrimage place for Japanese tourists eager to soak up the atmosphere and Kazuko has been interviewing visitors in her own unique style to strip bare this curious obsession with the quintessentially British romance. The results of her investigations will form the background to her next performance piece to be premiered in 2006.

Co-author Colin Carmichael also wants to give his opinion:
“It’s about a Japanese woman in love with a book,” says Colin. “She comes to England to find her Heathcliff, only to find a fake environment instead - the experience of every tourist in London.”

Regrettably we don't have pictures or reviews of the show for the moment.

Categories: Theatre, Wuthering_Heights, Sequels, Emily_Brontë