A wild, passionate story about social class, hate, revenge, power and love

Broadway World interviews Sam Archer and asks him about his roles in Wise Children's Wuthering Heights.

The Wallis presents the Los Angeles premiere of Wise Children's Wuthering Heights, opening January 11, 2023. Emma Rice directs her own adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic. [...]

Would you tell us about the three roles (Lockwood, Edgar Linton and The Moors) you play in Wuthering Heights?

Lockwood is an English gentleman who visits the Yorkshire Moors from London. He is the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange. He is an outsider who learns all about the trials and tribulations of the Linton and Earnshaw families.

Edgar is well-bred but rather spoiled and cowardly as a youngster. He becomes a tender, loving father but eventually a broken man, when he loses everything to Heathcliff.

The Moors are a Greek chorus ensemble that help to drive the story.

For those unfamiliar with this Emily Brontë classic, what would your three-line pitch for Wuthering Heights be?

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story about social class, hate, revenge, power and love. The story centers around Cathy and Heathcliff's ultimately doomed relationship and how their unresolved passion eventually destroys them and those around them.

Since you've worked with Emma before, how intensive or easy was your audition for Wuthering Heights?

Luckily, I didn't have to audition for Wuthering Heights. Emma offered me the role after Wise Children. (Gil Kaan)

The Nerd Daily has a Q&A with writer Beezy Marsh.

Quick lightning round! Tell us the first book you ever remember reading, the one that made you want to become an author, and one that you can’t stop thinking about!

[...] Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë made me want to become an author. I read it as a young teen and fell in love with Heathcliff.  At university, I was dazzled by the way Emily Brontë created such an amazing sense of character and place in her novels. (Elise Dumpleton)

Morning Star reviews Where the Skylark Sings by Lee Garratt.

His vivid descriptions of the Luddite attacks on the new mills is reminiscent of similar scenes in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and has echoes of Tressell’s Ragged Trousered Philanthropists in its straightforward explanation of how the capitalist system works.

According to CN Traveler, Wide Sargasso Sea is one of '9 Books to Spark Your Wanderlust in 2023'.

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

This year, I revisited a book I was assigned in high school when it caught my eye on a shelf in New York's McNally Jackson Nolita, showcased with a group of “eerie” titles in the month of October. In the 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea, Dominican-British author Jean Rhys gives the infamous madwoman in the attic from Jane Eyre a story, and a life. The feminist, post-colonial prequel is set in the Caribbean, part one in Jamaica during the protagonist’s childhood, and part two in Dominica during her toxic honeymoon with Mr. Rochester. The descriptions of these islands are at once beautiful and haunting. Take, for example: “The road climbed upward. On one side the wall of green, on the other a steep drop to the ravine below. We pulled up and looked at the hills, the mountains, and the blue-green sea. There was a soft warm wind blowing but I understand why the porter had called it a wild place. Not only wild but menacing. Those hills would close in on you.” These locations are not romanticized—they’re integral to the story Rhys tells about race, power, and assimilation—and in that way, this read will prompt your interest in them in more ways than one. (Alex Erdekian)