A new Wuthering Heights at the National Theatre in 2020 (and for that Emily needs reprimanding)

Several news outlets carry the news of an upcoming new Wuthering Heights production at the National Theatre:

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is set to be adapted and directed by Emma Rice at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton next autumn, it has been announced.
Rice, who launched her new company Wise Children following her departure as artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe, will deploy her trademark musical and visual style to the classic story, which is a co-production between the National and Wise Children, in association with York Theatre Royal.
Dates and casting are yet to be announced, but the production will open in the autumn of next year. (London Theatre)

Wise Children today announces the world première of Artistic Director Emma Rice's adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, which she also directs, as part of their 2020 season of work. With her trademark musical and visual style, Rice brings new life to the classic story in this elemental stage adaptation. This co-production with The National Theatre, in association with York Theatre Royal, opens at the Lyttelton in autumn 2020 before touring the UK, with venues to be announced.
Emma Rice said today, "I loved Wuthering Heights with a passion as a teenager. I thought it was a love story, a wild romance. I now find little love within its pages, but these multi layered readings are what makes it such a fascinating story. My Wuthering Heights promises to be a revenge tragedy for our time - but it will also be about hope. I want to wrestle hatred to the earth and let a new story grow. Wild and fierce, elemental and true - I cannot wait to start work on this timeless classic. And that is theatre romance, right there! (Broadway World)

Also on Playbill, Broadway Buzz, Evening Standard, The Stage, Whatsonstage ...

Village News features the 413 Repertory Theater production of Jane Eyre in Escondido, CA:

413 Repertory Theater opened a play production of "Jane Eyre," Sept. 5, at the Grand Tea Room in downtown Escondido. (...)
Adapted for the stage by Christina Calvit, this adaptation originally premiered off-Broadway in Chicago to rave reviews.
413 Repertory Theater's production of "Jane Eyre" will feature an immersive dinner theater experience complete with a full cast of professional San Diego actors, beautiful 1830s reproduction costumes and a full fall-themed high tea provided by the Grand Tea Room. (...)
The production will run two more weekends, Sept. 12-22, with performances Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7 p.m., and Sundays at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. 

The Telegraph & Argus sums up the status of the Red House:

Kirklees Council has now confirmed that it is in the process of putting the Grade II* listed 17-century Red House building on the open market.
The authority has also outlined that a planning application could be submitted to allow the former museum to be used as a home - but that this would not mean new homes being built in the grounds.(...)
For the last two years there has been little update on the progress of the sale, but the final Community Right to Bid moratorium period formally ended last month, meaning Red House is no longer protected as an asset of community value.
Local councillor Lisa Holmes, who was president of the Friends of Red House and part of one of the community bids for the building, told the Telegraph & Argus that she hoped the whole site would be residential and not be for business use at all.
She added that she believed the Council was looking to split the site so that the main house and barn buildings could be sold separately.
"I've been pleading, 'don't let it become a business'. I can see why they would want to split the site, but the problem will be that the listing includes the walls round the Victorian garden, which they can't just remove." (...)
Cllr Graham Turner, cabinet member for corporate at Kirklees Council, said: “We’re now in the process of putting the site on the open market and this should happen next year. We will work to ensure that this historic site goes to someone who can deliver a suitable and sustainable long-term future for it.
“There is an option for a planning application to be submitted for a change of use to residential. This would allow the existing buildings to be lived in but would not mean new homes being developed on the site. Any new development would require the relevant planning permission. The site’s historic significance and listed building status would play a part in any such decision.” (Jo Winrow)

The Her team selects their favourite books:

Nimh Choice: Hands down Wuthering Heights by Brontë, studied it in school and I was obsessed with my copy, I read it every few years still.
The book is grim, the abuse and inequality that Heathcliff suffers as a child is heartbreaking but then it forms the person he becomes who, for the most part, is completely unlikeable as a character.
He's driven by love but in the most dysfunctional sense of the word, but we're still drawn to him! The themes of revenge that run throughout keep you completely captivated and then there's the gothic elements of the supernatural and creepy girl GHOSTS, it literally has everything!
"Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same."
Although it sounds romantic, it's a highly co-dependent and unhealthy relationship and I'm pretty sure this book is why I went for asshole bad-boys for most of my teenage life and well into my twenties.
You can never change a Heathcliff, run away very fast across the moors! (Keeley Ryan)

Houses with literary connections On the market on MoneyWeek:

Ponden Hall, Stanbury, Haworth, West Yorkshire. This 1540s property was extended in 1801 to include a library that was used by the Brontë sisters. It has flagstone floors, beamed ceilings and a large kitchen with an Aga. 9 beds, 8 baths, recep, cellar, gardens, 4 acres. £1.25m Fine & Country 0113-203 4939.

Statesman and the pros and cons of ebooks:

However, one of the joys of reading is sharing your books with others. Most e-books do not allow you to loan them to friends. Paper books can be loaned, traded and given away an infinite number of times. Those who know me know that one of my missions in life is to increase 1000-fold the number of people who have read "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights." I have multiple copies that I loan out as much as possible. (Rebecca Bennett)

Live Mint talks about Margaret Atwood's The Testaments:

Only the Aunts are allowed any education, though they can’t read anything they wish. From Jane Eyre to Anna Karenina, Tess Of The d’Urbervilles to Paradise Lost, the list of proscribed books is long. Even parts of the Bible are censored, as are children’s books from an earlier era. (Somak Ghoshal)

The Herald interviews the playwright and artistic director, David Grieg:

Favourite three novels
Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. (Marianne Taylor)

The Times recommends a 'good walk': Trawden and Wycoller in Lancashire:

Deep, brackeny cloughs brought streams twisting down to the south. We crossed Turnhole Clough and followed the Brontë Way down to the shell of Wycoller Hall, Charlotte Brontë’s model in Jane Eyre for Mr Rochester’s lonely house of Ferndean. It is a melancholy ruin — blank windows, chilly stone halls — in a gorgeous leafy dell. (Christopher Somerville)

SBNation discusses the 'arcane logic of dating' and quotes from Emily Brontë:

As Emily Brontë once wrote:
Unconquered in my soul the Tyrant rules me still—
Life bows to my control, but Love I cannot kill!
There’s no fixed formula to finding love. Even with dating apps these days, the process is uncertain. This week, we try to address some of the fears that come with trying to find love, and how to keep love once you think you’ve found it. (Zito Madu)

The Catholic Key interviews the new president of St Teresa's Academy in Kansas City:

Dr. May-Washington said, “English and Literature have so much to teach us. The Classics – Shakespeare, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, African-American authors and poets like the late Toni Morrison, other American writers and poets – Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and so many more.” (Marty Denzer)

Le Nouvel Observateur (France) reviews the documentary Kate Bush, la sorcière du son (also recommended in Le Parisien):

Le film consacré à ce mystère de la pop qu’est Kate Bush s’ouvre par une scène qui se répète chaque année au mois de juillet. Dans les parcs de plusieurs capitales, le jour de son anniversaire (le 30 juillet), vêtus de rouge comme dans le clip de « Wuthering Heights », les fans de la chanteuse britannique reprennent ses titres phares et ses chorégraphies avant-gardistes. Une belle manière de rappeler que, grâce à - ou malgré - ses absences répétées, Kate Bush fait toujours l’objet d’un culte. Quel phénomène, et quel talent ! (Sophie Delassein) (Translation)

Metropolitan Magazine (Italy) mentions a Brontë detail in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness:

Marlow racconta la sua avventura ai marinai che attendono con lui il cambio di marea, sull’imbarcazione Nellie, ormeggiata in un’ansa del Tamigi. Citazione letteraria: Nellie Dean è la narratrice di “Wuthering Heights” (“Cime tempestose”, 1847). Anche qui un racconto nel racconto. (Greta Civitareale) (Translation)

La Croix (Belgium) features the writer Maryse Condé:

Sur elle, tout a été dit. Sur sa vie d’abord : l’enfance dans une famille de « la petite bourgeoisie » guadeloupéenne, la découverte de l’écriture à travers Les Hauts de Hurlevent, puis de la dépossession coloniale et de la « négritude » en lisant Césaire ; ses passions amoureuses ensuite, son départ pour la Guinée de Sékou Touré, ses enfants et ses accouchements, sa rencontre avec Richard ; ses expériences africaines, qui lui font comprendre que le continent « des origines » ne la reconnaît pas comme son enfant, et sa prise de conscience en lisant Frantz Fanon que le « Noir » est d’abord une construction dans le regard du « Blanc » ; son premier grand succès, Ségou, sur la fin de cet empire malien emporté par la colonisation ; enfin ses cours à Columbia, les romans qui s’enchaînent, sa nomination à la tête du comité pour la mémoire de l’esclavage ; et toujours, sa famille, ses enfants, son fils, son premier né mort du sida. (Laurent Larcher) (Translation)

TuaCity Mag (Italy) talks about Morgana by Michela Murgia and Chiara Tagliaferri:

Per la Tagliaferri il concetto di atto eversivo è incarnato da Cime Tempestose di Emily Brontë, romanzo che occupa un posto speciale nella sua vita perché ha segnato la sua adolescenza:
“è stato uno dei primi libri che ho letto da ragazzina a Piacenza, dove sono nata e cresciuta, e dove ogni orientamento sociale o sessuale era riassunto in un unico individuo che veniva bollato con un soprannome, spesso dispregiativo, come a volerlo privare della sua identità. Anche io e la mia amica in quegli anni fummo soprannominate la strana e la strega. La ragione ci è ancora oggi sconosciuta. L’unica cosa che volevamo fare era spezzare la noia e il diverso, nella mia città, voleva dire strano. Non ne potevo più di questa vita così a 15 anni, di ritorno da una vacanza in Liguria, mi inventai di essermi fidanzata con un ragazzo di nome Heathcliff, proprio come il personaggio immaginario del libro. Raccontai di questo grande amore che mi aveva travolta fino a quando non lasciai Piacenza. Il mio primo atto eversivo lo devo quindi ad Emily, la prima ad avermi fatto scoprire cosa fosse l’amore e per questo l’ho scelta come mia morgana nel libro”. (Coraline Gangai) (Translation)

The Asian Age mentions the Brontës in an article about digital learning. John Crace in The Guardian makes a passing reference to Emily Brontë being quoted in a speech by Labour MP Tom Watson.