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Courtyard Productions PresentAdapted for the stage by April de AngelisFrom the novel by Emily BrontëDirected by David DurantThursday 2 October 2025 -To Saturday 4 October 2025The Courtyard, Edgar St, Hereford HR4 9JR, United KingdomLove turns savage on the Yorkshire moors.Passion, obsession, and revenge collide in this fierce new staging of Emily Brontë’s masterpiece. Watch as Heathcliff and Cathy’s devastating love story ignites the stage, brought to life by a unique ensemble of professional actors performing alongside the brightest talents from our local community and Youth Theatre.When a mysterious orphan boy is taken in by the Earnshaw family, no one could predict how his intense connection with young Cathy would unleash decades of passion, betrayal, and vengeance. Their destructive love affair haunts two generations, poisoning everyone it touches. As storms rage across the moors, dark secrets surface, and long-buried emotions explode into life.This daring new production cuts straight to the heart of Brontë’s gothic masterpiece, revealing its raw power. Our exceptional cast blends seasoned professionals with fresh local talent to create something truly unique – a Wuthering Heights for today’s audience that captures all the wild spirit of the original.Some loves burn too hot to survive. Some stories refuse to die.Join us for a theatrical storm you won’t forget.
This production promises to be a thought-provoking and visually stunning interpretation of a literary classic, making it an event not to be missed. (Alexandra Cooke)
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Colchester Theatre Group presents
Wuthering Heights
Headgate Theatre, Colchester, CO2 7AT
Wed 27th April 2022 - Sat 30th April 2022
April De Angelis’ adaptation of Wuthering Heights brings Emily Brontë’s passionate and spellbinding tale of forbidden love and revenge to life on stage. Set on the wild windswept Yorkshire moors, Wuthering Heights is the tempestuous story of free-spirited Catherine and dark,
Last year, we began this message with optimism, the first Covid-19 vaccines were being administered, Brexit worst-case scenarios were being avoided, the US was on the verge of passing one of the darkest pages in its history. We end the year with mixed feelings, however. We experienced a year that can only be described with surfing metaphors. We have surfed the waves of the different Covid-19 variants, we even had some months of delusional (almost) normality, we've been to the edge with so many crises it's almost tedious to enumerate: the climate emergency taking the form of extreme weather phenomena (floods, fires, snow, tornadoes...), an attempt of coup d'état at the heart of the USA, the Ever Given ship blocking the Suez canal, supply chain problems, fuel shortages, growing energy prices, a world ever more divided... and omicron and the associated pingdemic as the icing in the cake. But 2021 was also the year in which humans flew a helicopter for the first time on another planet (Ingenuity on Mars), put into space the most ambitious space telescope ever (the JWST), China officially eliminated malaria... and even a 90-year old Captain Kirk touched the sky for the very first time.
So, the funny thing is that we don't feel pessimistic. We want to believe that Omicron is not another variant, but probably the one that will change the Covid-19 into an endemic and seasonal crossover between flu and cold. We'd like to dream that we will be able to travel again without paying ludicrous amounts of pounds for useless tests (the 2-day money scam is the UK's very own contribution to the Covid absurdity) and visit Haworth again... some sunny day as Vera Lynn, another one that left us last year, used to sing. We are not so optimistic about the rest of the challenges of our society... but, hey... one disaster at a time, please.
This new biography makes use of recent research including a return to the issues of her `twinship` with Emily (a critical `twin`, as Wildfell Hall shows). The work also examines the family events of the autumn of 1837, when her life `hung by a thread.` Where possible primary sources are emphasised, avoiding Charlotte`s stage-managing of Brontë family history.
This 1902 book, originally intended for private
circulation, is a memoir of George Smith (1824–1901), founder, proprietor and publisher of The Cornhill Magazine and later the Dictionary of National Biography. The small volume, compiled by Smith's wife, consists of a memoir of Smith by Sidney Lee, followed by four short autobiographical pieces that Smith wrote for The Cornhill. He recalls his years at the publishing house of Smith, Elder and Co.; his encounters with Charlotte Brontë, who stayed with the Smiths in London; his idea of founding a magazine; and the 'lawful pleasures' of court cases for libel.
Enter the world of the Brontës with this 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle. Travel across the blustery Yorkshire moors and into the dark, gloomy schoolrooms and firelit drawing rooms of nineteenth-century England to spot Cathy,
Heathcliff, Jane Eyre, Mr Rochester, Helen Graham, Arthur Huntingdon and a host of other characters while you build the puzzle. Includes a fold-out poster that highlights characters, locations and real-life figures.
Witness one of the most iconic pieces of English literature retold in a faithful yet fiercely original, new stage adaptation from the nationally-renowned shake & stir theatre co (A Christmas Carol, 1984, Dracula).This stunning new production, featuring original music, written and performed live on stage by multi ARIA Award winner Sarah McLeod, will set a fire blazing in your soul.
Eleanor has recently been asked to curate a large-scale, online and in-house exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. The exhibition will place focus on the clothing of the Brontë family.
And that's all that we know for the moment. Let's hope that no new Greek letters choose to colonise our daily lives and that not only all those events and releases we have listed above but all those many others we know for sure will surprise, engage and amaze us will come to fruition making 2022, a very Brontë year.
Directed by Michael Oakley, and dramatised by April de Angelis, Wuthering Heights is simply a theatrical masterclass. (...)Broadway World announces that Loft Ensemble (Los Angeles) will perform next season (no dates yet) Stephen Kaplan's Branwell and the Other Brontës at the Sawyer's Playhouse, a 40-seat theatre space upstairs from Loft's main stage.
It is not only that Wuthering Heights is simple, smart, moving, eye-wateringly beautiful, staged in a place that only elevates it to another dimension, a very definition of the Living Theatre, which is pure pleasure and eye-opener at the same time.
It is that the abundance of talent on stage and behind it is so absolutely stunning.
One might only hope that this group of eight incredibly talented actors and ten fantastic people from the production team will stay together forever, because when these talents are combined, the possibilities are truly endless.
Seeing Wuthering Heights is not only a great experience, but also a service done to Oxford as a theatrical place and to the theatre in general. Personally, I wouldn’t mind spending every evening for the rest of the summer under the trees of Wadham College at all. 5/5 (Stan Skarzynski)
Mrs. Phelps is impressed that Matilda is reading the likes of Dickens, Dostoyevsky and Brontë, but she’s even more thrilled to find that Matilda’s really good at telling stories. (Jean Lowerison)Reading is fundamental according to Clearance Jobs:
In my home, everyone owns a tablet and can freely download whatever they choose to read. What’s important is that they are reading. One is re-reading The Silmarillion while another is consumed with Frank Miller’s work on Superman: Year One and yet another is engrossed in cookbooks. My wife relaxes to Charlotte Bronte while I dig into the stack each night to satisfy the mood of the day. Everyone’s reading list is unique, but each is remarkable in its own way. So, when you struggle with what to read, or which reading list to follow, remember one immutable fact. (Steven Matthew Leonard)evz (Romania) and Donne sul web (Italy). The dilemma of summer reads:
Hermann Hesse sau Gabriel Garcia Marquez? Goethe, Joyce sau Emily Brontë? Finețea psihanalitică a germanului recompensat în 1946 cu Premiul Nobel pentru Literatură sau realismul magic al columbianului alintat Gabo, beneficiarul aceleiași distincții în 1982? Discursul percutant al răsfățatului de la Weimar, modernismul irlandezului care l-a școlit pe Samuel Becket sau victoriana care a scris un singur roman? (Florian Saiu) (Translation)
Cime Tempestose. Un altro grande classico che vi consigliamo di recuperare per quest’estate, si tratta dell’unico romanzo scritto da Emily Bronte a metà del 1800 ma che è bastato a renderla una delle scrittrici più famose della storia. Questo libro narra la storia di Heathcliff, del suo amore per Catherine, e di come questa passione finisca per distruggere entrambi. Infatti, elementi quali la gelosia e la vendetta hanno un ruolo centrale nello sviluppo della trama, che scatena effetti negativi sugli individui. (Roberto D'Eugenio) (Translation)ForumOpera (in French) prefers Samuel Barber's Vanessa to Bernard Herrmann's Wuthering Heights:
Et si on la compare à ce que faisaient les compositeurs de musique de film lorsqu’ils s’aventuraient dans le genre lyrique, la différence éclate aussitôt : là où Vanessa possède un impact immédiat grâce à sa concision même (à peine deux heures), Wuthering Heights de Bernard Herrmann, exact contemporain de Barber, semble bien dilué. (Laurent Bury) (Translation)MaxMag (Greece) posts an article about Emily Brontë. Reader Gal reviews Jane Eyre. My Goddess Complex posts about the marriage market in Jane Eyre and Pride & Prejudice.
The Identity Theatre Company performs Wuthering Heights (in the adaptation of April de Angelis) at the Brighton Open Air Theatre:Wuthering Heights
BOAT
July 24, 25, 26, 27 7.30pm
July 27 2pm
Directed by Nettie Sheridan & Gary Cook
Complete cast
A love as wild as the wind, a passion that echoes through the ages… Identity Theatre return with April de Angelis’ adaptation of Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë’s passionate and spellbinding tale of forbidden love and revenge.
This classic tale of obsession and wild love is set on the windswept Yorkshire moors, and 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 passionate love, but Cathy lets her head rule her heart as she chooses to marry wealthy Edgar Linton.
Heathcliff flees broken-hearted, only to return seeking terrible vengeance on those he holds responsible, with epic and tragic results.
“Jane Eyre”The Telegraph briefly reviews the Oxford Shakespeare open-air production of Wuthering Heights:
An orphan with daddy issues falls madly in love with a mega-bangable zaddy. The only problem? His crazy ex is locked in the attic, and that bitch is about to pop off! (...)
“Wuthering Heights”
Meet Heathcliff, a savage bae with abs of steel and a heart of stone who’s irresistible to Catherine, a good girl ready to go bad. Separated by class, their forbidden affair legit creates drama for generations to come. (Mary Cella)
The equally lush gardens of Wadham College in nearby Oxford are currently hosting an adaptation, smartly cast and refreshingly comic too, by April de Angelis of Wuthering Heights, which has just arrived from windswept Castle Howard in Yorkshire (rating: * * * *). Cynics may worry about the Downtonisation of our theatre – shows attaching themselves to heritage sites to harness the tourist trade etc – but if it lends a fresh perspective, stimulates artistic activity, challenges the status quo and brings joy it’s all to the good. (Domenic Cavendish)The Independent is very critical with the recent teenage-oriented romantic sagas:
There’s a strange kind of irony there, given how After, 2016’s supernatural romantic drama Fallen and Twilight all make frequent references to classic works of literature such as Wuthering Heights, Romeo and Juliet and Pride and Prejudice – either to feign a sense of literary gravitas or to form a parallel with the tortured romances in those works. (Roisin O'Connor)The Guardian's Quick Crossword included a Brontë question.
12 Charlotte Brontë novel (8)And the first letter is V.
Claro que no todos los escritores eran partidarios de la pluma de Austen, escritores como Charlotte Bronte, escritora de Jane Eyre; el célebre Mark Twain fueron colegas que criticaron fríamente los temas y el estilo de sus novelas. (Marisol Iturríos) (Translation)Bretagne Actuelle (in French) interviews the writer Lorraine Fouchet:
Jérôme Enez-Vriad: Vous évoquiez tout à l’heure les livres « sérieux » et très littéraires dont l’intrigue finit toujours mal. Pourquoi cette idée qu’un « beau » livre serait obligatoirement relatif à une histoire sombre ?Although we don't think of the ending of Wuthering Heights as particularly unhappy.
LF : Les « grands livres » finissent mal en général. Si Les Hauts de Hurlevent ou Autant en Emporte le venta vaient des fins heureuses, ils ne seraient jamais devenus cultes. Seulement voilà ! Au moment de conclure, je ne peux m’empêcher d’arranger les choses. Mes livres font du bien (enfin j’espère !) et finissent bien. C’est ainsi. (Translation)
Francesca Tripodi: Da lettrice, quale libro ti è rimasto nel cuore? Perché?Legit (Nigeria) lists 'sweet husband quotes to show your love', including one from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Diario Femenino (in Spanish) shows unforgettable literary fragments including one from Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. LondonTheatre1 reviews the Edinburgh Fringe show An Evening without Kate Bush.
“Scegliere un solo libro è difficile. Ce ne sono davvero tanti che mi hanno colpita, ma se proprio devo decidere dico Cime tempestose, perché è il primo libro che mi ha emozionata.” (Translation)
A renowned screenwriter is shining a new light on both Patrick Brontë and the secret cellar of the famous father’s Haworth home.Ox Magazine reviews the current outdoor Wuthering Heights production in Oxford:
Frank Cottrell-Boyce has created an “illuminating” new installation as part of celebrations for the 200th anniversary of Patrick becoming the village’s church minister.
How My Light is Spent as placed in the cellar of the Brontë Parsonage Museum, a room never before open to the public.
How My Light Is Spent will run from August 10 to November 1 and is free with admission to the museum.
Cottrell-Boyce is the Brontë Society’s creative partner for 2019, as part of the year of events celebrating the father of novelists Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte. (...)
How My Light is Spent will explore Patrick Brontë’s memories as he recovered from a cataract operation, without anaesthetic, at the age of 70, having already outlived his wife and two of his children.
For the first time, visitors will be able to enter the Parsonage cellar where they will experience an immersive sensory installation that combines elements of theatre, light and sound.
Cottrell-Boyce said: “I first came to the Parsonage on a family day out and I wanted to help create something there that would be an enjoyable part of a family visit.
“Something that would be exciting as well as illuminating. Something that would give you something to talk about on the way home in the car or on the train.
“Something with a bit of mystery and magic that would be accessible to the youngest but would satisfy the oldest.”
How My Light Is Spent will allow audiences to share Patrick’s experience of darkness, hear the memories he held dear and see the dreams and visions he shared with Charlotte, who had cared for him following the operation.
It was at this time that she began to write Jane Eyre. (...)
Harry Jelley, Audience Development Officer at the Brontë Society, said How My Light Is Spent had been a hugely collaborative project with many creative minds coming together to make something magical happen at the museum..
He added: It’s been brilliant working with Frank Cottrell-Boyce as he explored the life of Patrick Brontë and devised this poignant, enchanting experience.
“The artists, Jo Pocock, Illuminos and Lumen, have each brought their own imaginations and skill to the project to create an installation which has deeply emotional themes and an otherworldly feeling.
“We think our visitors will be wowed when they step inside this fantastic world.” (David Knights)
It seems rather callous to be chomping away on Babybels as someone wastes away before you, but such is the way when you can bring a picnic along to an outdoor production of Wuthering Heights. Lamplighter Drama has joined forces with Oxford Shakespeare Companyto stage the Emily Brontë classic, as adapted by April de Angelis, in Wadham College Gardens (far too pretty for the story). The aforementioned thinning character is of course Cathy, played by Alice Welby who excellently illustrates her childishness and mental worsening. Opposite, Tyler Conti captures Heathcliff’s vulnerability and heartache, even if on a few occasions his Yorkshire accent goes a bit south (not wholly unlikely, I guess, given the amount of time he spends with the very southern Cathy). (Sam Bennett)The Chicago Tribune mentions the Brontës:
Sisters can make for fascinating reading and study. Here are a few examples: the Bouviers, more familiarly known as Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill; the six outlandish Mitford sisters of British aristocracy in the 1930s; the Bronte sisters—Charlotte, Emily and Anne — without whom we would not have “Jane Eyre,” “Wuthering Heights” or “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,” respectively. (Sara Clarkson)An article from 1907 resurfaces in The New York Times:
Women authors appearing on best-seller lists alongside men? “Startling,” The New York Times called it in 1907.Bloody Disgusting imagines how Stranger Things would be if it was based on the nostalgia of a different decade:
Even more than appearing alongside them, successful books by women are beginning to “threaten the supremacy of man in the best-seller class,” the article went on.
But that’s not necessarily a bad thing, the article said. In fact, these men are even willing to “hobnob” with these women — namely George Eliot, Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë — “now and again.” (Maya Salam)
The horror trends of the 1940s were based heavily in classic literature, as they were imitating a lot of the success of 1930s horror films (Dracula, et al). As such, the 1940s Stranger Things would pay homage to producer Val Lewton, and appear to come out of RKO. It would be inspired very directly by, say, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. Set in Haiti, Eleven (a Simone Simon type), is a local psychic who runs her own business reading minds and floating objects for wealthy travelers. She is the analogue for Catherine. Will, a bitter local raised in luxury and suffering from lung ailments, is the stand-in for Heathcliff. Will’s mother is, in this version of things, an embittered Miss Havisham type (who, I know, is from Great Expectations; don’t @ me). When Will is sucked into The Upside Down by an ancient local curse, Catherine is destitute and flees into the arms of Dustin (a Dwight Frye-in-his-final-role-type). Fast-forward a generation, and Eleven’s young daughter, also psychic, makes good with Will’s less bitter son. Will returns just in time to see the inter-generational reconciliation. The last shot is a Demogorgon eating Will. (Witney Seibold)WPR recommends summer reads:
Novelist Margaret Atwood — best known for the eerily prescient dystopian novel "The Handmaid’s Tale" — recommends "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys.Bookriot posts about the writings of Adrienne Rich:
The story is one of the very first novels in which a minor character from another well-known novel takes center stage — in this case, the mad wife from Charlotte Brontë’s "Jane Eyre."
Like Atwood's own work, Rhys uses her characters to explore the power dynamics of men and women set against a dystopian world.
As more and more accounts of gross abuse injustice in higher education are revealed, her essays on Jane Eyre and Emily Dickinson grow in importance. And as we grapple with divisions in feminism, like the two gay male feminist English professors at Penn State who have argued their own academic freedom to slur and dead name are more important than the identities and safety of their students, we can turn, like Cheryl Strayed, to Dream of a Common Language and have it guide the way. (Holly Genovese)Jornal Opção (in Portuguese) talks with the writer Lobo Antunes:
O escritor também aprecia “os primeiros livros” de Vargas Lloas; “Três Tristes Tigres”, de Guillermo Cabrera Infante; alguns livros de John Le Carré e os “dois últimos livros” de Philip Roth (as entrevistas do livro foram feitas em setembro de 2008). Sente inveja de Liev Tolstói, Joseph Conrad e Emily Brontë, “porque são escritores que de fato espantam, que têm coisas magníficas”. (Euler de França Belem) (Translation)Dewsbury Reporter reports the upcoming performance of Chapterhouse Theatre's Wuthering Heights production in Oakwell Hall. Forever Young Adult reviews My Plain Jane. Jane Eyre's Library (in Spanish) has a transcript of the first chapter of the first Spanish (sort of) translation of Jane Eyre: Juana Eyre, Memorias de una Aya. It was published as a serialized story in the Cuban newspaper El Diario de la Marina in 1850 (which as a matter of fact translated a previous French adaptation of the novel)
What would Emily Brontë have made of Wuthering Heights, her novel of bleak Yorkshire moors and even bleaker passion, being transported to the idyllic calm of Wadham College gardens? Perhaps the contrast would have amused her, but I think she would have approved. Under Michael Oakley’s assured direction, the Oxford Shakespeare Company and Lamplighter Drama are successful in transporting their audience elsewhere for the evening – to a darker time and starker place where tragedy, misunderstanding and passion rule.Variety reminds us how Kate Bush
This success due in part to April de Angelis’s script, liberally sprinkled with a humour that, given the somberness of the novel, is surprising and makes for an entertaining evening (though perhaps purists attached to the book may find it hard to adjust to!). Some humour is aimed knowingly at the audience – there is a sly reference to 'frittering your life away on silly trifles – like trips to the theatre' and a character’s desire to 'take a fifteen minute sojourn' announces to the audience that it’s interval time. (Fiona Bennett)
officially proved herself as a pioneer when, at 19, she released her literary first single, “Wuthering Heights” — based on Emily Brontë’s gothic romance — which topped the U.K.’s charts for an entire month. In so doing, Bush became the first female artist to score a No. 1 hit that she wrote herself. (James Patrick Herman)Lake Mills Leader celebrates the new novel by Margo Peters:
Her doctoral dissertation was on Charlotte Brontë, so it was natural for her to write her first biography about the author.Unlikely Brontë references today presents Security Boulevard:
“I had read every book she and her sisters ever wrote,” she said. “Biographies are fun but scholarly.”
The book, “Unquiet Soul: A Biography of Charlotte Brontë,” was accepted by two major publishers. She went with Doubleday, publishing in 1975. (Sarah Weihert)
Shakespeare. Brontë. Dickens. In literature, the classics have long been a staple of summer reading lists. Computer security has its own share of classics – reference points that serve as a foundation for understanding the field’s ever-changing chessboard of attack and defense. (dmurphy)The Irish Times interviews the songwriter Aldous Harding:
She says that frequently-attached labels like “mysterious”, “introverted” and “eccentric” don’t bother her. I tell her that one comment on a YouTube interview said “She’s what I imagine Emily Brontë to be like”. (Lauren Murphy)Screen Rant makes a D&D reading of Star Trek: Voyager with the occasional Brontë mention:
Janeway has a natural talent for leadership and spent several years training to be a Captain, and study is the providence of Wizards. She has a talent for literature, especially the dark Romantic Period that gave us artists like Byron, Shelly, and the Brontë sisters. (Kristy Ambrose)Who lists gifts for book lovers:
The Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeThe Sun Daily (Malaysia) interviews author Carol Jones:
This alternate-history novel follows a ‘literary detective’ named Thursday Next, who travels through different novels and literary universes in pursuit of a criminal who has been kidnapping characters from classic literature. Lovers of classic books and poems like Jane Eyre and The Raven will enjoy meeting famous characters in this universe-hopping adventure. (Rhys McKay)
“I have always loved those star-crossed lovers’ stories like Romeo & Juliet and Wuthering Heights,” Jones admitted. “The two lovers are separated by insurmountable odds. (S. Indra Sathiabalan)Brief mentions to Wuthering Heights 2011 and Jane Eyre 2011:
Suo anche il più bel film tratto da “Cime tempestose”, con Heathcliff trovatello di pelle scura nella brughiera, come lo aveva immaginato Emily Brontë. (Mariarosa Mancuso in Il Foglio) (Translation)
Olivier is in seething, feral form as Heathcliff, the brooding romantic hero of William Wyler's adaptation of Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights." His windswept period film (1939), chilled by the Yorkshire moors and mental cruelty, shares an all-Brontë triple bill [in the SFOMA "Haunted! Gothic Tales by Women,"] with Andrea Arnold's brutal 2011 interpretation. With hand-held camera work, spare dialog and a barely suppressed savagery only hinted at in Wyler's movie, it's an unflinching depiction of racial violence, socio-sexual politics and thwarted desire. Cary Fukunaga's superb, exceptionally moving version of Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" (2011) features simmering chemistry between a tortured Rochester worthy of romantic obsession (a taunting, sexy Michael Fassbender in one of his best performances) and the orphaned, independent-minded Jane. She's played with spine, vulnerability and a combination of tenderness and wariness by the phenomenal Mia Wasikowska, who radiates the character's emotional intelligence in every frame. (Sura Wood in Bay Area Reporter)Also, N S Ford reviews Jane Eyre 2011.
Lean Lluvia fina. Lean Jane Eyre, una gran novela feminista que Charlotte Brontë nos legó en defensa de la verdad como forma de rebelión. Lean los Ensayos esenciales, de Adrienne Rich, recién publicados por Capitán Swing, que nos enseñan lo que se esconde bajo las apariencias de muchas formas de cultura. De nuevo, la verdad. Escapemos por un rato del acartonamiento político que nos rodea y, mientras les dejamos entretenidos en sus faroles, busquemos la realidad literaria como forma superior, muy superior, frente a la procaz realidad que debemos afrontar. Si se dan cuenta de que no les hacemos caso en su absurdo teatrillo, tal vez avancemos. (Berna González Harbour) (Translation)The latest book by Alejandro Varderi is discussed in ViceVersa Magazine (in Spanish):
El mundo después de Alejandro Varderi, es el quinto volumen que bajo el título Origen final trata de los diferentes temas en los que el ser humano en la sociedad actual se encuentra inmerso y que mencionaré más adelante.ANP Panamá (in Spanish) quotes from Wuthering Heights:
Desde el punto de vista formal la obra está dividida en tres partes que las abren las citas de tres grandes: Charlotte Brontë, Winston Churchill y Robert Musil. (Alicia Aza) (Translation)
En la novela "Cumbres borrascosas", Emily Brontë escribió: "Es una tontería lamentarse de una desgracia con veinte años de anticipación". A lo que añado hoy: y una causa más de la epidemia actual de ansiedad. (Ismael Cala) (Translation)The actual quote is: "And would it not be foolish to mourn a calamity above twenty years beforehand?"
Non è un caso, a questo proposito, che il libro preferito della protagonista sia Jane Eyre, che è uno dei capisaldi della letteratura di formazione britannica. Sfumature di Charlotte Brontë, dunque, ma a cui non guasta anche un pizzico di Oliver Twist perché le disgrazie capitate alla protagonista sono talmente numerose, profonde e sconvolgenti che l’ombra di Dickens non può non incombere, prima o poi, durante la lettura. (Cristina Vitagliano) (Translation)Barometern OT (Sweden) talks about Rigmor Gustaffson's cover of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights:
Ett annorlunda inslag stod Rigmor Gustafsson för, när hon framförde Kate Bush Wuthering Heights, mästerlig ekvilibristik med rösten, men jazztonen återkom i Allt under himmelens fäste i Mathias Algotssons arrangemang: pianointro i fugastil, övergående i parti till jazz-mode med unisona röster på aaaaa. (Translation)One Man Book Club reviews My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows; Stirling Castle shares a peek behind the scenes of the recent Chapterhouse Theatre production of Wuthering Heights in the Great Hall at Stirling Castle.
June 11, 02:00 AM
An exploration of the BBC's long love affair with the lives and works of the Bronte sisters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne. For over half a century, the ill-fated literary dynasty has proved irresistible to drama and documentary makers alike, keen to reinvent their novels for new audiences. So we get Bronte heroines reimagined for each emerging generation, first as classic 1950s housewife material, then wild child '60s 'chicks', Gothic waifs and, finally, empowered modern women. The Bronte males, meanwhile, are restyled as assorted prigs, wife-beaters, even brooding prog rockers and, of course, wouldn't you know it, new men. Wonderful stuff.
Via Yorkshire Business.Oxford Shakespeare Co. presents
Wuthering Heights
Adapted by April de Angelis
Directed by Michael Oakley
Original Music by Pete Flood
Castle Howard, York --- June 26th-30th
The Gardens of Wadham College, Oxford --- 2nd July, 17th August
In an exciting new venture, the team behind Lamplighter’s unanimously acclaimed The Life and Times of Fanny Hill, join the OSC to co-produce April de Angelis’ striking stage adaptation of Emily Brontë’s spell-binding Wuthering Heights.One of the most powerful love stories ever written by the great feminist writer of her age is brought to the stage by our leading feminist playwright.
April will be casting fresh eyes on her original text, originally commissioned by Birmingham rep in 2008 alongside director Michael Oakley (As You Like 2014 It and Private Lives 2018 for OSC) and composer Pete Flood (formerly of folk sensation Bellowhead) who both achieved excellent reviews for their work on Fanny Hill.Perhaps the most (in)famous romance in the literary canon this superlative tale of love and revenge - the tempestuous relationship of Heathcliff and Cathy from children to thwarted adults - is a timeless icon that continues to captivate audiences young and old to this day.
When Mr Earnshaw brings home the young “dark eyed boy” from unknown origins nobody is prepared for the astonishing relationship that unfolds between him and Earnshaw’s daughter Catherine – unleashing a tumult of passion affecting generations to come.This fast-moving exhilarating adaptation shows us that true love knows no bounds and holds the ordinary world in contempt.
April de Angelis is a highly acclaimed feminist playwright. Lamplighter are thrilled to be working with her again after the success of The Life and Times of Fanny Hill starring Caroline Quentin at Bristol Old Vic (touring 2021), one of the theatre’s fastest ever selling shows with a record number of first-time bookers under 30. The OSC are famous for their open air and site-specific productions in exceptional historic venues including Hampton Court and Kensington Palaces and the Tower of London.
It is with great pleasure then that their new co-production of this timeless Yorkshire classic will premiere at Castle Howard, the county’s finest stately home.
To prepare for presenting this account of Emily Brontë’s tempestuous story of the free-spirited Catherine and the dark, brooding Heathcliff on the wild, windswept Yorkshire moors, Charlotte headed to Castle Howard with April and Michael in March. “We first thought about the Walled Garden, but then we thought, ‘if you’re going to do an open-air theatre show, let the audience see the grounds, that lovely vista of Castle Howard’,” says Charlotte.
“We’ll be keeping the audience in one place, rather than moving around, as Oxford Shakespeare Company like to do immersive pieces where the actors are close to the audience, doing a very dynamic, fast-moving piece of theatre with the actors creating the environment from the setting and very few props.”
April was keen to experience Castle Howard at first hand before revising her script. “She said, ‘if you’d like me to look at the adaptation afresh, I want to adapt it for a Yorkshire setting for a Yorkshire story by having a look around first,” recalls Charlotte. “The reason is, when there’s no ‘fourth wall’ for outdoor theatre, there needs to be more direct contact with the audience to whip the action along.” (Charles Hutchinson)
Starting tomorrow, April 23, a new production of Wuthering Heights opens in Keighley:Wuthering HeightsKeighley News gives some further information:
Romantic Drama by Emily Brontë
Adapted by April de Angelis
Directed by Nikki Barrett
Monday, 23rd April 2018 to Saturday, 28th April 2018
Performance begins at 7.30pm
A brand new adaptation brings Emily Brontë's passionate and spellbinding tale of forbidden love and revenge to life on stage. 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 passionate love, but Cathy lets her head rule her heart as she chooses to marry wealthy Edgar Linton. Heathcliff flees broken-hearted, only to return seeking terrible vengeance on those he holds responsible, with epic and tragic results.
It has been 25 years since the playhouse staged Wuthering Heights in an adaptation by Charles Vance, in which Nikki played Cathy herself.
Nikki said: “I feel extremely fortunate for the opportunity to direct a play so close to my heart, and it has rekindled my love for such a passionate story.”
The new adaptation by April De Angelis explores the full novel and stays very true to the story and characters.
It is slightly different from the usual Keighley Playhouse show as it is written as a simple production with minimal set and props, allowing the audience to use their imagination. (David Mason)
A new student production of Wuthering Heights opens today, March 2 in Coventry:Warwick University Drama SocietyCobalt Magazine Blog interviews the director, Lottie Titcombe:
WUDS: Wuthering Heights
by April de Angelis
Wed 2 - Sat 5 Mar 2016 7.45pm
Venue: Studio
Set on the wild and windswept Yorkshire moors, Wuthering Heights is the tempestuous love story of the free-spirited Catherine and the brooding Heathcliff.
De Angelis’ unique adaptation captures the spirit of the characters, bringing Brontë’s classic tale to life.
Lottie wants to encourage her audience to enter the studio with open minds and willingness to experience a new Wuthering Heights, and maybe even a new type of drama to what they are expecting. This is not a show about the passivity of the reader but about the inclusive power of readership and exploration of multiple layers of writing and imagination that has spanned centuries leading up to this production. With the opportunity to work with new stage levels, a studio balcony and a great cast of talented students, Lottie can’t wait to challenge her audience to participate in a world of active-observational experience. Her project has been a huge challenge to take on and compromises have had to be made as is the nature of voluntary, student dramatics. But with the team and high energy, passion and interest that is circulating this performance I can’t wait to see the outcome. (Abi Browning)
This adaptation begins true to the book with Mr Lockwood (Tony Giles) narrating the story. He was later introduced to fellow narrator Nelly Dean played by Bella Stebbings.In The Guardian, Tanya Gold discusses the recent story of Jeanette Winterson killing and skinning (and sharing a picture of it on Twitter) a rabbit that had been eating her parsley.
Bella delivered the lines with perfect clarity and excellently shifted between talking to Mr Lockwood and being part of the scene she was narrating.
The writing of April De Angelis does not shy away from showing Cathy as a domineering and contrary character who at times is most unpleasant.
Kathryn Anderson carried this off well, beginning as a charming young girl and ending as a twisted and broken woman.
She played alongside the equally deceitful and manipulative Heathcliff (Gareth Roberts). The heartache and longing between the two characters was unbearable to watch as the dark and haunting plot unfolded.
The story is fascinating as you see how all the characters are affected by the relationship between Heathcliff and Cathy. It eventually resolves with Cathy’s daughter (Kathryn Anderson) picking her cousin Hareton (Robin Lee), a poor soul who has not been schooled. Robin played Hareton as a kind-hearted, shy man with signs of a young Heathcliff.
Her mother did not make such a wise choice and married Edgar Linton (Ben Kennedy-Day), a whiny, wimpy man who was brought up to be a gentleman. He portrayed this well and cleverly showed us glimpses into the possibility of him having true feelings for Cathy.
At times some characters needed to enunciate their words a little better. The biggest scene change of the production was a little slow but this was perhaps unavoidable.
The emotions in this performance were extremely powerful and this dark tale left the audience in haunted contemplation.
It is fascinating to ponder though – the bored and clever novelist rewriting Beatrix Potter in the style of Quentin Tarantino and eating the ending. (Winterson to Potter is as Jean Rhys to Charlotte Brontë. Effortlessly, she makes her look naive.)The Guardian also reviews the film adaptation of The Fault in our Stars.
They are as rich and attractive as teens in a Nancy Meyers movie, with a quirky, smart, back-talking relationship. Life-affirming Gus likes to have an unlit cigarette in his mouth to show his existential defiance. Despite being such an obvious hottie, Gus is a virgin. Hazel's own condition in this respect is apparently so self-evident that she never says it out loud. It is all too clearly Gus's virginity, not his cancer, which is his heartbreaking vulnerability, like Rochester getting to be blind at the beginning and not the end of Jane Eyre. "You two are so adorable," says Hazel's mother, out loud, without anyone nearby screaming. (Peter Bradshaw)More on the One Direction erotica fan fiction. As read in the Daily Mail:
What's more, when she referenced Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights in the installments, the number of people reading these novels on Wattpad spiked. (Margot Peppers)
a visceral, raw and brutal beauty which makes Heathcliff's Wuthering Heights look like a prissy, pastoral watercolour. (Emma Jane Kirby)
Western College Players presents
Wuthering HeightsAdapted by April De Angelis, Directed by Jill Nicholas
The Drum
Theatre Royal Plymouth
Tuesday 17–Saturday 21 June 19.45 PM
This summer Western College Players Theatre Company present an exciting new production of Emily Brontë’s classic, tragic and haunting romance.
Set on the Yorkshire Moors, Wuthering Heights is the story of a seemingly innocent childhood infatuation that becomes a passionate and destructive obsession. Thus leading to a bitter and violent quest for revenge – spanning generations – and threatening to destroy all that stand in its way.
One of literature’s most loved novels; Wuthering Heights is an unforgettable piece of theatre.
“The adaptation uses Lockwood, who moves to the moor, and Nelly, the servant, to narrate some of the story,” says Jill.
“It’s a modern adaptation which is good because ‘box’ stage sets are becoming dated now.
“It meant Cliff Appleby, our designer, and I could come up with very simple staging with only a couple of side flaps.”
The greatest challenge for the production, though, was to get the right actors in place.
“It has to be extremely well cast because people know the book and the characters so well,” says Jill.
“Gareth Roberts, who plays Heathcliff, is tall and dark and Kathryn Anderson, who is Cathy, is just right.
“They are so well suited.”
Other key roles are taken by Bella Stebbings (Nelly) and Tony Giles (Lockwood) with Ben Kennedy-Day as Edgar, who catches Cathy’s eye.
Jed McLoughlin plays the young Heathcliff. Kathryn Anderson finds herself with two parts as she takes the role of Cathy’s daughter, too – which the director freely admits presented another challenges in the early days of rehearsals.
“We have a few people doubling up in roles,” says Jill.
“I had to get my head round that at first, because the book is so clear and vivid.”
In St Albans, Alabama:Company of Ten presentsThe Herts Advertiser interviews the director:
Wuthering Heights
adapted by April de Angelis
Abbey Theatre
Main Stage
Thu 14 - Sat 16 Nov, 8PM
Sun 17 Nov, 2.30 PM
Wed 20 - Sat 23 Nov, 8PM
Directed by Tina Swain
Emily Brontë’s gothic tale of love and revenge adapted by April De Angelis for today’s audiences.
Cathy and Heathcliff are inseparable as children, and their friendship grows into a passionate love. But when Cathy chooses to marry the wealthy Edgar Linton, what will become of them both, and how will the decision influence the fate of the next generation?
Please note that there are no public performances on Monday 18 or Tuesday 19 November. The production on Thursday 21 November will be audio described.
“Wuthering Heights is a well-known novel, often set as a school text. There have also been several film and television adaptations, so the story and characters are familiar and almost everyone knows the Kate Bush song.And in Bristol, Rhode Island:
“What struck me when I first read this stage adaptation was that familiarity – the play really captures the essential elements of the novel and translates them into an exciting, fast-moving piece of theatre.
“De Angelis uses the two narrators, Mr Lockwood and Nelly Dean, to ensure that the plot is easily accessible, but she also captures the iconic characters we recognise. It’s surprising to discover that most of Emily Brontë’s novel actually takes place inside the two houses, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, and the play makes use of this to great dramatic effect. We’ve also had the challenge of portraying several of the disturbing or violent moments that Brontë wrote, which have caused gasps of horror even in rehearsal!”
Roger Williams University Theatre Season
Jane Eyre
Adapted from Charlotte Brontë's novel by Polly Teale
November 15-17; 21-23
(Main Season II)
For a Victorian woman to express her passionate nature is to invite severe punishment. Could it be that Jane and the madwoman at Thornfield are not opposites, but are parts of the same woman? Central to this adaptation is the idea that inside the sensible and proper Jane exists another self who is passionate and sensual. Bertha, locked way in the attic embodies the fire and longing which Jane must keep hidden.
“I have to come to see the novel as a quest, a passionate enquiry” –Polly Teale
EDIT:The Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, DorsetA set of pictures of the rehearsals here.
Heavy Weather present Jane Eyre
November 15, 7.00 pm
A work in progress sharing as part of the R&D by the Sea development programme.
Heavy Weather is a dynamic theatre company with a passion for new and old writing, fresh perspectives on classics, and equality in the arts. Nature, the supernatural, folklore, folksong, child abuse, abandonment, insanity, arson, death, desire, devotion, religion, poverty, wealth, family, travel, youth, wisdom, experience – they want to tell the memorable story of Jane Eyre in a way that audiences have not seen or heard before. They want to take the spirit of the book, the feel of the characters, the taste of the landscape and turn these into our own theatrical language.
Engrossing, captivating and absorbing – this was Duchess’s Community High School pupils’ performance of Wuthering Heights.Publishers Weekly presents the English translation of Minae Mizumura's A True Novel:
The talented cast simply shone, capturing all of the drama and emotion of this classic tale.
That is no easy feat either.
Emily Brontë’s story, adapted for the stage by April De Angelis, is deep, powerful and at times, very dark. It is as much an exploration of revenge and hate as it is love.
But the pupils coped remarkably and earned a standing ovation at the end of the night. Quite right too.
The High School has built up a fine reputation for its theatrical performances over the years, and Wuthering Heights was yet another memorable show.
The story is centred on lovers Cathy and Heathcliff – played by Annie Davison and Harry Brierley respectively.
It was fitting therefore that these talented youngsters stole the show. (James Willoughby)
A True Novel by Minae Mizumura, trans. from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter and Ann Sherif (Other Press) - The story-within-a-story-within-a-story at the heart of this novel features a doomed, Wuthering Heights romance set in postwar Japan, with the 20th-century Heathcliff riding the Japanese-American economic wave. Concentric narratives connect and transform into a critical appraisal of commercial expansion and cultural decline. (Gabe Habash)St George & Sutherland Shire Leader (Australia) talks about a local fashion design student who has chosen Jane Eyre as her inspiration for her final design project:
It was a fascination with the character Jane Eyre from the novel of that name which captured Lillian Chan's imagination.Claire Fellon writes in The Huffington Post about dating and nineteenth century novels:
The honours student from Beverly Hills is studying fashion and textile design combined with international studies at the University of Technology, Sydney.
For her final design project, Lillian, 25, showcased her 20-piece creations across six looks at her university's "Future of Fashion" runway show last week.
Her style "icon" was none other than Miss Eyre herself.
"Jane Eyre is my favourite novel — I've read it a couple of times," Lillian said.
"The main character Jane is such a strong role model, despite her oppression.
"I like to think of her as the original feminist."
Lillian's collection, "Thornfield", was named after the Thornfield House in the novel.
"People expected me to do a Victorian collection but it's not that at all," she said.
"I've added a supernatural element — a ghostly feeling by using sheer and pastel-coloured fabric, lots of layering and ivory silk organza contrasted with textural fabrics like leather and tweed.
"It's quite a contemporary collection but still classic because I wanted to keep that sophistication."
Her modern muse for the collection was Australian-Polish actress, Mia Wasikowska.
"I've seen a few of her movies, and she played Jane in a modern adaptation," she said.
In the course of my literary education, I plowed through classic marriage-plot-centered novels, and no scrap of apparent romantic wisdom was left behind in my wake. Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Bennet -- these were my role models in the realm of dating. The results were catastrophic. It turns out that trying to recreate the plotlines of romances written 200 years ago wasn't the best strategy for finding love. (...)Caitlin and Caz Moran remember how it was (and it is) being a teenage girl in The Times:
That guy is being an asshole to you because he's so into you. (Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë)
Ah, Mr. Rochester. The tortured romantic hero who inspired a million girls to hold out hope for that adorable, brooding guy a grade above them who tortures them with snarky insults and always seems to be dating the most popular girls in school. What do his comments really mean?? And wouldn't he be happier with you than with that snobby Michelle, anyway? Deep down, he's probably just afraid to admit what a profound connection you have. Yup, that's it. I mean, Jane Eyre ended up happy with her confusing, hot-and-cold beloved, so why not you? Lesson: A guy might have many reasons to treat you badly, but none of them are that he doesn't love you.
Teenage girls didn't ride around on bicycles, pretending they were a cross between Just William, Freddie Mercury and Jane Eyre, doing noble deeds. Teenage girls didn't do anything at all. Everything I'd done before now had to die.Literary 'merchandising' on The Guardian:
In 2011, a pair of "directional" Catcher in the Rye sneakers caught Lindesay Irvine's discerning eye. He's not wearing them now – apparently, they don't match his Jane Eyre hoody. Just as well. It seems book-themed fashion is like no longer lust-have.More Huffington Post. A list with books for every personality. Introverts, apparently, are into Jane Eyre:
Jane EyreThe Herald discusses the threats to literary heritage:
by Charlotte Brontë
Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. (Arti Patel)
But the moors abutting the Brontës's parsonage in Haworth, or the dank fields and valleys of Ted Hughes's Yorkshire, or the rolling hills of Grassic Gibbons's Mearns are something else altogether. They are fragile, unique and irreplaceable. Something of their essence creeps into their characters or creatures, the bond between them bone-deep and indivisible. (Rosemary Goring)The Pakistan Daily Times includes a Brontë reference when discussing phrenology:
He expanded his apparently harmless theory to senseless speculations by linking the zones with lumps and bumps on the anterior of the skull. As a consequence of the wide acceptance of this theory, perfectly normal persons found themselves as potential murderers or lunatics as they unfortunately had similar bumps or lumps that had been identified by the science of phrenology for murderers or lunatics. Such was the sway of these beliefs that even authors like the Brontë sisters and Arthur Conan Doyle’s popular character Sherlock Holmes promoted these ideas in some of their stories. (Dr Haider Shah)North Adams Transcript reviews the Spanish animation film Arrugas:
The truth is that I saw a little of myself in every one of them -- in the woman who wanders the halls searching for a telephone so she can call her children to come and get her, because she’s "all better now," in Modesto and Dolores, as much in love since childhood as Heathcliff and Cathy were in "Wuthering Heights," the loving and caring Antonia and her walker, the woman who is convinced that aliens are out to whisk her away and, perhaps the most affecting of all, the elegant lady whose every waking moment is lived in the fantasy of an Orient Express journey of a lifetime, a lifetime that never catches up with her. (Jerry Goldberg)The Secret Life of Writers interviews author April Tucholke:
What’s better: a kickass villain that you almost want to cheer for or hilarious minor characters? Tell us why!Ο Φιλελεύθερος (in Greek ) presents Wuthering Heights 1992 which will be broadcast on the local station PIK2; O Prazer das Coisas (in Portuguese) review Agnes Grey; Kids' Book Review posts about Jane, the Fox and Me.
Kickass villain. Always. Gothic horror plots thrive on passionate antagonists that both seduce and repel at the same time. Byronic heroes—what’s not to love? See: Wuthering Heights, Dracula, Dragonwyck, The Phantom of the Opera, Interview with a Vampire, Jamaica Inn…
Duchess’s Community High School Senior Drama GroupNorthumberland Gazette gives more information:
Wuthering Heights
The spirit of Emily Brontë's haunting novel is brought to exhilarating life in this stage adaptation performed by the talented DCHS Drama Group.
A passionate and spellbinding tale of forbidden love and revenge.
November 6,7 and 8 @7:30 pm
This adaptation, written by famous playwright April De Angelis (Playhouse Creatures), will be performed by the senior drama group and promises to be a thought-provoking piece of theatre.
The school’s head of English and drama, Martin Allenby, said: “This will be the school’s 14th consecutive autumn production at the Alnwick Playhouse and we can’t wait to showcase the talents of our young people to the wider public once again.
“The text is part of our work on the gothic that we prepare for in A2 English literature so fits well with our studies.
“However, most importantly it gives young people a chance to work in a professional space – be it on the stage, sound, lighting and to work with the Playhouse staff.
“It’s a continuation of the excellent working relationship that exists between the school and the Playhouse to provide the best opportunities for young people.”
A new amateur production of Wuthering Heights (in the April de Angelis adaptation) opens today, July 17, in Chellaston, Derbyshire:Chellaston Players presentComplete cast here.
Wuthering Heights
Adapted by April de Angelis. Novel by Emily Brontë
Directed by Elaine Lawrenson
Cathy – Louisa Ballard
Heathcliff – Matt Sharratt
Isabella – Clare Snape
Nelly – Cathy Wilson
"Wuthering Heights is diverse in this sense and we chose this particular script, an adaptation by April De Angelis, for this very reason," [Elaine Lawrenson] explains.
"Playing the parts of Heathcliff and Cathy, our two principal actors Clare Snape and Matt Sharratt have had to push their acting talents to the limits. They give striking performances of passion, desperation and despair."
The story is narrated by the Housekeeper Nelly, who is relaying her tale to the new tenant, Mr Lockwood.
"As their relationship grows there are some charming and light-hearted moments between them which really breaks the tension and might even get a few laughs. Overall though we aim to take the audience on a roller-coaster ride of emotion," says Elaine.
"Most of the scenes take place in either Wuthering Heights, or Thrushcross Grange but the moor has a presence."
Production assistant Emma Bridges reveals that set design was one of the group's biggest hurdles.
"The play runs continuously. There is very little in the way of scene changes so the audience can expect to see the household staff arranging furniture as the action continues on the stage," she says.
"We have gone for a very simple set, mostly black but with key pieces of furniture and a huge fireplace at the rear of the stage.
"We have stayed very true to the book and but the dramatic and tempestuous performances of our actors are very contemporary."
