The Brontë sisters never had a 'customized tangerine headboard tufted with fuchsia buttons'

Asian News International has issued an article on Tamasha's Wuthering Heights relayed by many news outlets, such as Smash Hits or The Times:

Ever imagined Emily Bronte's classic tragedy 'Wuthering Heights' with its backdrop in Rajasthan? Well, that's what you'll witness if you happen to see Oldham Coliseum's latest production, which showcases the romantic tale on stage, but with an Indian touch.
London-based British Asian theatre company Tamasha is staging an Indian-version play based on the famous novel at the Coliseum, reports Times Online.
The names of the main characters in the play would be Krishnan, instead of Heathcliff, and Shakuntula, rather than Cathy.
The costumes are Indian rather than 19th-century British, and the setting is the deserts of Rajasthan, not the Yorkshire moors.
Even the soundtrack has been given a Bollywood touch, rather than Kate Bush.
And starring in the lead roles are Youkti Patel (Shakuntula/Cathy), and Pushpinder Chani (Krishnan/ Heathcliff), from Tamasha.
They are all set to take the Indian version of Wuthering Heights on a tour of seven other theatres around Britain from Exeter to Glasgow.
The show's originators said that there was already an Indian link to Wuthering Heights- Merle Oberon, who starred as Cathy in the classic 1939 Hollywood film version with Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff, was born in Bombay, now Mumbai.

Another recent adaptation of Wuthering Heights is the one made by ITV, screened early this year in the USA and finally to be broadcast at an unknown date in the UK later this year. Manchester Evening News talks to Sarah Lancashire, who played Nelly Dean:

She has also filmed the role of housekeeper Nelly Dean in a new ITV1 adaptation of Wuthering Heights, finally due to be screened later this year.
There were fears that the network, which only pays for a production in full when it is broadcast, might not be able to afford to transmit the £3m drama.“I saw it last week and it’s beautiful. It’s an epic piece, in an epic setting with epic problems,” comments Sarah. (Ian Wylie)

The New York Post has an article on this year's Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, which is given tomorrow. Anne Landsman, author of The Rowing Lesson, is one of the five contenders:

"Being a Jewish writer is such a gift," Landsman says. "We straddle several traditions, cultures, histories, giving us access to such a wealth of ideas. I'm a South African, Lithuanian, American Jew, who grew up speaking fluent Afrikaans (as my second language), loved Shakespeare, Bronte and Dickens, and went to cheder three times a week. All of these strands influence who I am, and how I write and they connect with people all over the globe." (Abby Wisse Schachter)

Karin Alvtegen, author of Shadow, also seems to owe something to the Brontës according to Eurocrime:

One often reads the word "unputdownable" to describe a book – it is certainly a true description of this one. As the novel reaches its climax, I was on the edge of my seat, my heart was pounding, and by the end I felt wrecked. It has strong parallels with Wuthering Heights, in which two "normal" people (Gerda as Nelly Dean and Marianne as Lockwood) are the filter through which the reader experiences elemental, horrifically tragic and passionate events that are beyond the witness-narrators' comprehension. (Maxine Clarke)

Dorothy Graham poses an interesting question in response to a past article featured in The Globe and Mail:

It is ridiculous for Candice Olson to wonder how a child with a large, airy bedroom with a bay window and "hand-me-down" furniture could "possibly create in a space so lacking imagination" (A Room For A Little Girl And A Young Woman To Be - Real Estate, March 20). Does she think that the Brontë sisters or Jane Austen or Charles Dickens needed "design" elements such as "self-adhesive flower appliqués" or a "customized tangerine headboard tufted with fuchsia buttons" in order to dream and be imaginative?

A couple of blogs also introduce us to more Brontëites: Mosaic Art Source Blog posts about the artist Shannon Landis Hansen who 'loved books, reading Dickens, Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters'. In Bed with Books interviews YA author Susan Fine, who used to be a teacher and states that she loved teaching Jane Eyre.

Jane Eyre is also the topic on Trin's Nook, which reviews it, Crossref-it, which discusses the symbolism in the novel, and The Pink Heart Society, which 'revisits' Mr Rochester. Literary Lunch posts a brief biography of Charlotte Brontë.

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