Year
2016
Language
English

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Will you be happy when I'm just dust, floating in the air?'
When two souls collide, the impact can resonate for all eternity. So it was—and so it is—with Heathcliff and Cathy. But if they can't be together, the world that struggles to contain them will simply shatter and burn...
Andrew Sheridan's gripping reinvention of Emily Brontë's classic novel Wuthering Heights is a searing and ferocious celebration of passion, of desire—and of the female imagination that created this indelible masterpiece.
Exposing a very different but essentially truthful side to literature's most electric couple, it premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 2020, in a production directed by Bryony Shanahan, joint Artistic Director of the theatre.

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"'A fiendishly clever and surreal play'"
Guardian
"'The play of the year'"
Independent
"'Substantial, provocative, immensely stylish works which create an unsettling mixture of wild laughter and profound unease... a major hit'"
Telegraph

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