A woman's inheritance

Broadway World reports that Berkeley Rep is offering $25 tickets to the West Coast premiere of Wuthering Heights.

Performances of the West Coast premiere of Emma Rice's critically acclaimed Wuthering Heights-a reimagined version of Emily Brontë's gothic masterpiece with live music, dance, passion, hope, and a dash of impish irreverence, creating an intoxicating revenge tragedy for today-begin this Friday, November 18 at Berkeley Repertory Theater's Roda Theatre (2015 Addison St., Berkeley). Tickets are on sale and can be purchased exclusively online at berkeleyrep.org/shows/wuthering-heights/.

Berkeley Rep announces select $25 front row and loge box tickets for every performance of Wuthering Heights. Starting today (Wednesday, November 16) at noon, and continuing every Monday at noon PST, the front row and loge box tickets for that week's performances will be available for $25, with no order fees, through the Berkeley Rep website. Tickets will be available online only on a first-come, first-served basis. (Stephi Wild)

Daily Mail recommends some new books and this one's one of them:

Mt Soul Twin

by Nino Haratischvili (Scribe £16.99, 320 pp)

The ghost of Wuthering Heights hovers over this overheated novel by the Georgian author of the smash bestseller The Eighth Life, which pivots on the transgressive relationship between Stella and Ivo, brought up as siblings in the 1980s following the deaths of their respective mother and father, who were having an affair.

We meet Stella as an adult, now married and with a young son although barely holding it together, and who is ambushed by the abrupt re-entry, after several years, of Ivo, who wants her to travel with him to eastern Europe.

The novel then rewinds back into the torrid history of their relationship which, like that between Cathy and Heathcliff, feels mainly defined by self-destructive torment — a force that soon rears its head once again as Stella's adult life starts collapsing around her. But it's all terribly meandering and unexciting stuff, some feat given the subject matter. (Claire Allfree)

Now you don't even need to stick to 'facts' to criticise Jane Eyre. From The Smart Set:

An audible groan rose from my high school English class when we continued to read The Awakening, but the subject of much debate was Jane Eyre. We argued that Jane’s return to Mr. Rochester did not make her equal to him because she relied on a man’s inheritance. (Marie Johnson)

First of all, it was a woman's inheritance--it was Jane's. And Jane was then free to do whatever she wanted with it and yet she decided to go back to Rochester because she loved him. And secondly, is equality only measured in monetary terms?

The Brown Daily Herald has an article on reading and 'becoming other people'.

 Just like I felt it while reading Whitman in Weinstein’s class almost two years ago, I feel it while reading George Eliot and Salman Rushdie for class now, and everytime I re-read Wuthering Heights in the winter. I might appear to be sitting still for hours, turning pages, but all the while I feel myself internalize, expand, and dissolve. (Aalia Jagwani)

The Times reviews the soundtrack of Weyes Blood:

The appeal of this is that, for all the navel-gazing gloom, there is a certain detachment and black humour to Mering’s approach. The charity shop painting on the album cover depicts her as a doomed heroine, clutching her heart over a billowing white dress like a latter-day Cathy of Wuthering Heights, and there is a touch of subterfuge here that takes Mering away from being a straightforward conveyer of heartfelt emotion. (Will Hodgkinson)

Film Companion wonders why 'ghosts are always female'.

The spirit of the unhappy woman is most often credited to the 18th century Gothic tradition of novels, prominently Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. (Sohini Chattopadhyay)