Heathcliff's close cousin

Let's begin with our three topics of the moment. Tamasha Company's Wuthering Heights, as featured on Manchester's What's On Stage:

The Oldham Coliseum has unveiled their new season and the highlights include Only When I Laugh, a new comedy written by and starring Jack Shepherd, best known for his role as Detective Superintendant Charles Wycliffe. There is also the premiere of a Bollywood version of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, by leading British Asian Company Tamasha. [...]
Kevin Shaw, Chief Executive of the Coliseum Theatre comments, “I’m absolutely delighted by the choice of plays and events which we have planned for the new season.
There really is something for everyone – plays such as Blithe Spirit and Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis promise to have the audience rolling in the aisles whilst for those who want something a little different, Tamasha’s Bollywood version of Wuthering Heights promises to be a great hit.”

Twilight - the movie - reviewed by The Philipine Star:

With another Twilight movie in a year or so do you think we should be concerned that millions of teenaged girls all over the world are now in love with a vampire? Maybe. But I do recall that I was in love with the darkly brooding Heathcliff when I was their age many years ago. I still see the hero or maybe anti-hero of Wuthering Heights as a close cousin to Edward. I think that Meyer thinks so too because Bella’s English class was studying Wuthering Heights in the story. (Baby A. Gil)

And Studio One's Wuthering Heights on DVD, recommended by PopMatters.

“Studio One Anthology” (Koch Vision, 1949-55, $99.98) This groundbreaking series presented live dramas each week on CBS. The 6-disc contains 17 of those shows taken from kinescope recordings. The quality is amazingly good. Among the performers are Jack Lemmon, Charlton Heston, Lee Remick, Art Carney, Eva Marie Saint and Leslie Nielsen. Some of the productions are “1984,” “Twelve Angry Men,” “Julius Caesar” and “Wuthering Heights.” A great DVD release of an important piece of television history. (Doug Nye)

And now for something that will without the shadow of a doubt be big news as soon as it hits the American screens in January: the new Wuthering Heights. PopWatch is looking forward to seeing Tom Hardy:

You may remember him as: Failed Picard clone Shinzon in Star Trek: Nemesis or RocknRolla’s Handsome Bob. Look for him: as Heathcliff in Masterpiece’s Wuthering Heights (premieres January 18th) and Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist (February 15th). (Aubry D’Arminio)

Singer Andrea McEwan is interviewed by Altsounds:

Altsounds: 'Candle in a Chatroom' comments on romance in the Internet age. You're quoted as saying "as someone who grew up on a diet of Bronte, Austen and Shakespeare, it made me sad to think that perhaps the reign of 'romance' was over." In terms of something as fundamental as love do you really think that romance might be over? Do you feel you're a more romantic person than most people?
Andrea McEwan: I can in no way judge how ‘romantic’ I am in relation to other people but I can say that yes I am a romantic. Unashamedly. I must also make the distinction here between romance and love – they are different beasts. Romance in my opinion is how love is courted, how it is tended. I think there is no denying that the way that we court love has changed and is changing very rapidly. This song is not a judgment but rather an observation.

Today three blogs write about Wuthering Heights, the novel: Endcap, Real Book and To the Lighthouse. Olde-Fashioned has designed and uploaded several icons related to the Victorian era which include a few Jane Eyre ones.

Categories: Brontëites, Movies-DVD-TV, Theatre, Wuthering Heights