The bionic Heathcliff

What's on Stage talks about the Lyric Hammersmith season in 2009. Including Tamasha's Wuthering Heights Bollywood production:

Highlights include a new musical adaptation of Wuthering Heights from British Asian company Tamasha. (...)
The final main house production of the season is Tamasha's Wuthering Heights, from 30 April to 23 May (preview 29 April), a co-production with the Oldham Coliseum where it premieres from 13 to 28 March as part of a national tour. Billed as “Brontë goes to Bollywood”, the classic tale of passion, jealousy and revenge is relocated to India, where Shakuntala, headstrong daughter of spice merchant Singh, falls for Krishan, a street urchin. But can their adolescent love withstand India’s rigid social hierarchies, not to mention Shakuntala’s yearning for a life of luxury? (Theo Bosanquet)

The Telegraph reviews Catherine Hardwicke's adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight:

[Edward Cullen is] serious and clenched, a Heathcliff for adolescents, he's also a bionic superhero who appears from nowhere to save her from the clutches of growly bad boys and has merely to stretch out an immaculately muscled arm to stop cars crashing into her. (Sukhdev Sandhu)

The author Sue Townsend remembers her Christmas as child in The Independent:

I would always be given lots of books from the Woolworths Classic book collection. It was in these editions that I first read Little Women, Kidnapped, What Katie Did, Tom Sawyer, Jane Eyre, Robinson Crusoe, Uncle Tom's Cabin etc. I would start to read immediately, breaking off reluctantly to eat my Christmas dinner, which we ate wearing paper hats from the crackers that had been placed beside our plates.

The Guardian remembers Gordon Brown's Heathcliffgate, The Library Journal recommends Dia Calhoun's White Midnight:

Rose Chandler is one frightened bondgirl—frightened of her family’s wicked overlord, Mr. Brae; frightened of the barbarians who threaten their land; and, most especially, frightened of the "Thing" in the big house attic. When her parents make a deal with Brae, she must draw on unexpected courage to face all three. (...)
Why It Is for Us: Fans of Jane Eyre will find much to like here. Turns out, the "Thing" in the attic is Brae’s grandson, Raymont. Rose is forced to marry him and deliver an heir. Their relationship is deliciously intimate and sensual while not conventionally romantic. (Angelina Benedetti)

On the blogosphere, The Classics commemorates Emily Brontë's death, Suite 101 posts about Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and CBebenezer has uploaded a youtube video with historical pictures of Haworth.

Categories: Books, Emily Brontë, Haworth, Music, References, Theatre, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights