The many sides of Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is quite prominent in the news today. There's more on the stage version of Wuthering Heights currently in York. Marshall Lancaster's MySpace blog has an article called 15 minutes with Marshall Lancaster where his role in this play is discussed.

Lancaster is starring in York Theatre Royal's production of 'Wuthering Heights' from 2nd June. He plays four characters; Old Earnshaw, Linton, Edgar Linton and Joseph which sees him enacting three deaths. Lancaster says; 'the key is to try and die in as many different ways!'
Joseph, Lancaster's only character to survive the duration of the play, is written as having a thick Yorkshire accent, and as a Macclesfieldian, Lancaster says, 'I'm having a go at it! There's not a lot of it, and it's quite easy to pick up and there's plenty of Yorkshire people about to pick it up from.'
'Wuthering Heights' is seen as a classic love story but is this version staying true to its roots? 'We've kept to the story, it's not been modernised in what we wear and it's set in the time it was, the only difference is really that we have a lot of narration in, so I think it's good for people who don't know the story so well'.

For a deeper look at this story, Associated Content has just added Fatherhood in Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff and Edgar: A Tale of Two Fathers by Tina.

On a more humourous note, the South Wales Argus talks about LipService's Withering Looks. The 'spoof' will be on stage at the Borough Theatre in Abergavenny on Thursday June 21 at 7:30pm.

When Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding of LipService realised that it was also the 150th anniversary of the death of Charlotte Bronte, they could hardly turn down the chance to dust off their crinolines and press their bloomers in a reprise of one of their best-loved shows.
Withering Looks is an up close and personal look behind the forbidding exterior of Haworth Parsonage, where the three Bronte sisters - well, two actually, Anne"s just popped out for a cup of sugar - lived and worked.
But to compensate, there are more ravaged heaths, tormented souls, mysterious neighbours, and maniacal laughter from the attic.
Peopled with many familiar characters, and some, quite frankly that LipService have made up, this is a potted potty classic to savour.
Withering Looks won a Manchester Evening News Theatre Award and the Critics' award at the Edinburgh Festival.
Tickets are priced between £8 and £10 and are available from the Borough Theatre"s box office on 01873 850805. (Iwan Davies)

Aren't you tempted? Do try and make it there if you're in the area.

Agnes Grey is reviewed - in French - by Lily et ses livres. And Summer Reading in The Times-Picayune.

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