New chances to see the
Wuthering Heights production,
which premiered earlier this year in Bochum, Germany:
after Emily Brontë
German by Wolfgang Schlüter
Stage adaptation by Claudia Bossard
Director: Claudia Bossard
With: Konstantin Bühler , Danai Chatzipetrou , Dominik Dos-Reis, Marius Huth , Victor IJdens, Nina Steils, Alexander Wertmann , Jing Xiang
June 9, 28, July 3; October 19
Schaulpielhaus Bochum, Germany
Love or madness? Revenge and ghosts on the stormy moors of England.
Kate Bush is to blame. Ever since her song Wuthering Heights, we have all been dreaming of the unrequited lovers Catherine and Heathcliff from Emily Brontë's outstanding novel. But wait: is it really love?
The novel that made the author immortal is a ghost story and melodrama, hard-hitting social realism and a psychological masterpiece. It tells how Catherine grows up with her brother Hindley and the foundling Heathcliff in a hard-hearted environment. She and Heathcliff become best friends, it could be a bond for life, but Catherine chooses Edgar Linton, the rich kid from the neighboring farm. Heathcliff runs away humiliated and returns three years later completely changed, with a relentless mission. Even Catherine's early death does not dissuade him. But Catherine also has a score to settle for eternity...
The novel is riddled with multiple tales of violence, violence against children, women, subordinates and those under their protection. Traumas are passed on, wounds do not close, victims become perpetrators and vice versa. A wildly rampant, ramified story in the rough winds of the English moors, full of haunted figures, emotional and economic legacies, extreme feelings, and in the middle of it all, the big question: What does it mean to be human?
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