A curious
Wuthering Heights approach opening today in Glasgow. An all-male version:
Peter McMaster: Wuthering Heightsas part of Arches LIVE 2012, Glasgow, UK
Sat 29 Sep 2012 | 2pm (open to men only) and 7pm
Featuring overly high drama, romantic violence, a touch of Yorkshire bleakness and a few alternative endings, this all-male performance revisits the landscapes and lives of the characters from Emily Brontë’s classic novel, focusing particularly on Heathcliff’s mysterious disappearance from the moors, and his subsequent return as ‘a man’.
Created in collaboration with Murray Wason, Chris Hall, Nick Anderson and Thom Scullion, this poignant new work explores their own experiences of what it means to be a man living in the world today.
On
Peter McMaster's website we find more information:
Wuthering Heights, is an attempt to create an all male version of the classic Emily Brontë novel that was written in 1847. It is an ambitious, experimental and investigative piece of performance work that draws upon many themes and issues raised within Wuthering Heights the novel, and links them to post-modern personal experiences of masculinity. At its core the aim of the project is to develop a deep understanding of, and meaningful contribution to post-modern masculinist discourse by investigating the experiences of young men living today. It asks ‘how can we be exemplary men of the 21st Century? How can we transcend the dominant male stereotype? ’. The process of creation is in part an attempt to find new ways of living our lives as young men in the 21st century, based upon a process of profound reflection which takes place within the sacred space of a men's group, and personal and public action ending in a performance for the theatre.
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