Emily Brontë's slim chanches of online dating

The Chicago Daily Herald reports the upcoming local theatre season which includes a production of a new adaptation of Wuthering Heights at the Lifeline Theatre:

Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" is a towering achievement of English romantic literature. See if Christina Calvit's world premiere adaptation for Lifeline Theatre (Sept. 10-Oct. 31, lifelinetheatre.com) brings out all of the pent-up passion of the stormy Yorkshire moors. (Scott C. Morgan)

The Hull Daily News does exactly the same with the Hull Truck Theatre. In October, Jane Thornton's adaptation will be on stage:

No sooner has Kaye left the building, than her daughter, actress Gaynor Faye, takes to the stage as Cathy in Wuthering Heights, alongside former Coronation Street actor Rupert Hill.

Opera News interviews Frédéric Chaslin, composer of a new Wuthering Heights opera (see previous posts) (libretto by PH Fisher):

Your book proposes new paths for music in the twenty-first century, calling for stylistic diversity, formal and rhythmic freedom and more use of visual media. How does your forthcoming opera, Wuthering Heights, put these precepts into practice?

FC: I mentioned that Hollywood had practically destroyed opera. Paradoxically, today I find that opera can be regenerated by using Hollywood techniques. Lots of operas are doing this. Look at the Ring in Los Angeles, or Moby-Dick in Dallas, with all its projections and other film techniques. That Ring cost about a third of the price for a new hospital. Nevertheless, Broadway and film — that's where you find the future of opera.

I wrote my Wuthering Heights completely using the vocabulary of film music while thinking of it truly as a film onstage, because I absolutely didn't think of the constraints of opera houses, like not changing scenes instantly. I ignored that complication. When I wanted an instant scene change, I did one, leaving it to the director to make it work. I'd even love to produce Wuthering Heights as a film before it's done in a theater. I'd like to partner with a director with whom we'd do an opera directly for film.

ON: Once your Wuthering Heights is produced, what impact do you hope to leave on your audience at the final curtain?
FC: It's very simple and clear. They should feel, "We'd like to listen to it again." Debussy remarked what a strange idea it was to think you could judge a piece of music by listening to it once. You need to listen twice. You need to create a desire for a second hearing. I want people to want to start over from the beginning. (David J. Baker)

Ruth Franklin talks about the online dating website alikewise.com in The New Republic:

I was hoping for someone a little more articulate. Time to expand the possibilities. I put in Philip Roth, Emily Brontë, Kafka, but the pickings were still slim.

We have run a search for Brontë and there are some Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and even one The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (no males, though).

The Pinewood Shepperton Studios have released its 2010 interim (not good) results. We read in the memo that Jane Eyre 2011 is considered one of the major productions of the year shot at the studios:

The largest production based at the Company’s studios during the period was Hugo Cabret (GK Films/Sony Pictures). Other productions using Pinewood Shepperton facilities included John Carter of Mars (Disney), Jane Eyre (Ruby Films), Clash of the Titans (Warner Bros) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Warner Bros).

The Times of India recalls several Indian adaptations of Western classics which were failures at the box office:

Despite superb music by Hemant Kumar, 'Kohraa' (1964), a desi version of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, collapsed at the cash counters. So did the Dilip Kumar-Waheeda Rehman-starrer 'Dil Diya Dard Liya' (1966) based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. (Meenakshi Sinha)

Port Townsend Leader reviews a production of Chekhov's Three Sisters (Три сестры)

The three sisters grew up in Moscow and long to return there to escape the frustrations and confinements of life in the small village where they live. Their situation mirrors that of the Brontë sisters, Chekhov’s initial inspiration for the play.

Rant Rave discusses Chéri and La Fin de Chéri by Collette:

Reminders of a "Wuthering Heights" type fate-against-the-lovers and the "Picture of Dorian Gray" narcissism is in the mesh of this particular story. Setting, surroundings described in voluminous detail a tangible force. Think a slightly toned-down Baz Luhrman's "Moulin Rouge" atmosphere. (Veronika)

EDIT: In Haworth today:

Churchyard Challenge!
Take our special pack to the Haworth Churchyard; follow the graveyard trail, try your hand at grave rubbings, and have a close up view with our special bug catcher / magnifiers at some of the tiny living inhabitants of the churchyard...

Risky Regencies talks about Jane Eyre and poses the following question "When did you first read Jane Eyre? What's your favorite of the adaptations?". Two possible answers come from Thoughts from a Compulsive Reader who loves the book and BabblingFlow who gives you the chance to win an ARC copy of April Landner's modern retelling of the novel, Jane. The dissonant voice comes from Read, Reading, Read who finds the book "a bit contrived, cliche, and not fantastically written".

Bookworms posts with passion about Wuthering Heights; Saltaire Daily Photo posts about the possible real inspiration for Wuthering Heights, the farm: Top Withens and The Contemplations of Kate has watched Wuthering Heights 1992. Finally, a curiosity, ConejoThruTheLens, publishes a picture of Nicholas Olsen's home on Olsen Ranch during the filming of Wuthering Heights, circa 1939.

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