Wuthering Heights in Minnesota and Brontë in Sydney

New Brontë productions around opening tomorrow, July 22:

1. In St Paul, Minnesota:

CB Productions presents
Wuthering Heights
Adapted by Jane Thornton
Location Paul & Sheila Wellstone Theatre, inside the Neighborhood House
179 Robie St E
Saint Paul, MN

Set on the wild, windswept Yorkshire moors, Wuthering Heights is the tempestuous story of free-spirited Catherine and dark, brooding Heathcliff. As children running wild and free on the moors, Cathy and Heathcliff are inseparable. As they grow up their affection deepens into a pa...ssionate love, but Cathy lets her head rule her heart as she chooses to marry the wealthy Edgar Linton. Heathcliff flees broken-hearted only to return seeking terrible vengeance on those he holds responsible, with epic and tragic results.

PERFORMANCES
Thursday July 22 7:30pm
Friday July 23 7:30pm
Saturday July 24 7:30pm
Friday July 30 7:30pm
Saturday July 31 7:30pm
Sunday August 1 2:00pm

2. In Sydney, Australia:

atyp (Australian Theater for Young People), Under the Wharf & Illyria Productions present
Brontë
by Polly Teale

Previews: Thurs July 22 and Fri July 23 @ 8pm
Opening Night Sat July 24 @ 8pm
Running Mon to Sat nights July 26 – August 7 @ 8pm

atyp : Studio 1 The Wharf,
Pier 4/5 Hickson Rd, Walsh Bay

FREE TO BE WHATEVER SHE MIGHT IMAGINE...

Brontё is a play that transcends time and space to explore the lives, both real and imagined, of the Brontё sisters. What inspired them to follow their passion in a world where their talent and ambition was so firmly discouraged? A play that questions what it means to succeed. That challenges us to see the power of the imagination and encourages us to escape into the world of Charlotte, Emily & Anne; three of the most read authors in the English language.

Southern Courier introduces the play like this:

The famous Brontë sisters have written the most passionate, sensual works of English literature based on lust, love and family. So what inspired them? What lives must they have led to be famous authors of literature? Polly Teale’s play, Brontë, explores Charlotte, Anne and Emily Brontë and transcends our time, leaving the audience hot under the collar. “It also explores the lives of pioneering women who remain role models for us and other women to this day,” producer Joan Sanders says. (...)
The latest adaptation of the Polly Teale play Brontë is no period drama. There’s not a bonnet in sight.
Instead, the play re-imagines the lives of the three sibling authors - Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte - to examine what it means to succeed.
It questions what inspired them to follow their passion in a world where their talent and ambition were so firmly discouraged.
The project had its genesis when Illyria Productions, which formed in 2009, was approached by four young Actors Centre Australia graduates to produce the play. (Leesa Smith)

Categories: Theatre, Wuthering Heights