More Wuthering Heights in Rome

A new chance to see Martina Badiluzzi's adaptation of Wuthering Heights as a part of the Romaeuropa Festival 2024:

Cime Tempestose

Direction and dramaturgy by Martina Badiluzzi

With Arianna Pozzoli and Loris De Luna

Dramaturg: Giorgia Buttarazzi

Dramaturgy collaboration: Margherita Mauro

Set design: Rosita Vallefuoco

Sound and music: Samuele Cestola

19 October 19 h

20 October 17 h

Teatro Vascello,  Via Giacinto Carini, 78, 00152 Roma RM, Italy

The transformative power of women's writing is manifested through authors like Emily Brontë who have redefined the literary landscape and shaped the imagination of generations. Through novels like "Wuthering Heights," the writer was able to express the fervor for emancipation that permeated her experience in the Victorian Yorkshire moors. Raised in a context that blended the wild nature of the region with the ferment of the industrial revolution, forced to conceal her authorship under a male pseudonym, Brontë deeply reflected on the emerging alienation in the capitalist society of the time. It is no coincidence, then, that director Martina Badiluzzi turned to this novel and its author for the fourth chapter of her cycle on female identities ("Cattiva sensibilità”," "The Making of Anastasia" - winner of the Venice Biennale Under 30 Directors competition in 2019 - and "Penelope" - co-produced by Romaeuropa Festival 2022). Her "Cime Tempestose" is a dialogue between the interior and exterior, a reflection on the ambivalence of human nature. Transporting the audience to the center of Catherine and Heathcliff's tormented universe (here played by Arianna Pozzoli and Loris De Luna), Badiluzzi pays homage to the intrinsic power of literature and art, concluding her journey on identities with two tragic figures of the contemporary "founding myth of our society, a tale of the profound misunderstanding between feminine and masculine, between nature and civilization."

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