Wuthering Heights in York

As we have reported previously, today (June 2) is the premiere of a new theatrical adaptation of Wuthering Heights in the York Theatre Royal. These are the details:

02 - 23 June 2007
York Theatre Royal presents
7:30 PM with 2:00 PM/2:30 PM matinees
After show discussion: Wed 13 Jun

Wuthering Heights
Written by Jane Thornton, adapted from the novel by Emily Brontë
Directed by Sue Dunderdale
Music by Richard Taylor
Designed by Lorna Ritchie
Lighting design by Ciaran Bagnall

With Jessica Harris, Joel Fry, Marshall Lancaster, Kate Ambler and Nick Figgis.

Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff are brought together as children and although they are social unequals they are one in spirit. Gradually torn apart by the forces that surround them, Heathcliff is eventually driven away from Wuthering Heights. When he eventually returns it is wreak vengeance on those he holds responsible, with epic and tragic results. Set against the wild, stormy, North Yorkshire Moors in the early 1800s this is a fast moving, classic tale of lost love, passion and revenge.

The York Press publishes an interview with Marshall Lancaster:

From tomorrow he plays a quartet of roles - Edgar Linton, Linton, Old Earnshaw and Joseph - in Jane Thornton's stage adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights at York Theatre Royal.(...)
Now Wuthering Heights brings Lancaster to Yorkshire.
"My agent mentioned it, and I'd worked with the director Sue Dunderdale on Peak Practice. It was just a guest part in it, as a garage owner whose wife had something wrong with her belly. I had to go into the doctor's surgery and kick up a fuss, so I did that, enjoyed it and I'm really glad Sue saw me for Wuthering Heights."
In rehearsal, he has enjoyed the multiple-role playing in Thornton's adaptation with its cast of only five."
I like the multi-roles; you can feel a bit schizophrenic, but it's about finding
the differences without making them too different, " he says.
"In comedy you can go as far as you like with differences, but with this, you have to make little differences, so we've been honing them down, rather than letting them become big caricatures.
"That can be particularly difficult when Joseph is about 80!" (Charles Hutchinson)

More information:
Interview with Sue Dunderdale in The York Press.
Pictures and icons in Marshall Lancaster's Community LJ.

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