Set design by Sabine Mäder. Costume design by Lane Schäfer. Choreography by Stefan Richter. Dance choreography by Nira Priore Nouak. Music/Composition by Heiko Schnurpel. Chorus master: Daniel Bengü. Video by Andreas Deinert. Dramaturgy by Carlotta Huys.
The bond between Catherine, the daughter of a landowner, and her adopted brother Heathcliff, a foundling from the slums of Liverpool, is characterized by profound understanding and longing. However, when Catherine decides to marry the wealthy Edgar Linton to escape the squalid conditions at their shared home, Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff is so deeply hurt that he leaves the area. The loss of her beloved foster brother and closest confidant plunges Catherine into a deep crisis. But even with Heathcliff's return, now a rich young man, Catherine cannot bring herself to turn her back on Edgar, and so begins a maelstrom of revenge and dependency that destroys two families across generations.
"Wuthering Heights," Emily Brontë's only novel, is now considered a classic of English literature. In this complex family saga centered on the anti-hero Heathcliff, violence and anger dominate. "Wuthering Heights" is essentially the anti-"Romeo and Juliet": The love between Cathy and Heathcliff is not a tragic, innocent, and ideal one that endures against all odds until death and transcends the boundaries of origin, but rather a love bordering on obsession and marked by rage.
In her production, director Anna Bergmann explores these abysses of the human soul, which are made visible through Heathcliff, and searches for their origins – including in societal structures.
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