Withering Heights

Today opens in Burien, Washington, a theatre parody mixing (on purpose) Victorian, Georgian, Austen and Brontë:

Breeders Theater presents
Withering Heights
A Parody of Victorian Proportions. With Bankers.

Directed by J. Howard Boyd
Written by T.M. Sell
Music by Nancy Warren
Choreography by Teresa Widner
Costumes by Melissa Sell.
The cast includes Adrienne Grieco, Amber Rack, Martin J. Mackenzie, Eric Hartley, Doug Knoop, Brenan Grant, David Roby, Steve Schenk, Melissa Malloy, Laura Smith, and Megan Krogstadt.

Performances will be at E.B. Foote Winery, 127B SW 153rd St., Burien.
Show dates are July 16, 17, 21, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30 and 31 at 7 p.m. and July 25 and Aug. 1 at 2 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for evening performances and at 1:30 p.m. for matinees.

Federal Way Mirror publishesa bit more about this play:

Jane Austen meets JP Morgan in Breeders Theater’s new show, "Withering Heights."
“It’s a parody of Victorian romance novels, and a commentary on the financial meltdown,” said playwright T.M. Sell, a professor at Highline Community College and a former Federal Way resident, in a news release. “I like Victorian romance novels, but they’re also kind of funny. And although Jane Austen didn’t write ‘Wuthering Heights’ (Emily Bronte did), I liked the title.”
And, technically speaking, Jane Austen was Georgian, not Victorian.
The play tells the story of young Miss Clarity Fugue, who has an inheritance of a most difficult nature. ill she find true love in the form of a rich husband before she hits the poorhouse?

Categories: Humour, Theatre, Wuthering Heights