Wuthering Heights At The National Theatre Review Emma Rice Brings Humour To The Emily Bronte

By switzerlandersing On Sep 10, 2025

Wuthering Heights Review — Emma Rice Brings New Magic To Brontë

Wuthering Heights Review — Emma Rice Brings New Magic To Brontë Emma rice’s exuberant version of this doomed moorland romance is a full throated pleasure to watch. emma rice brings all the weapons in her theatrical armoury to this exuberant adaptation. Lasting nearly three hours, this intensely absorbing show (a co production with the bristol old vic, the national theatre and york theatre royal) deepens as it unfolds. the performance commences with the crack of a whip and a mad cackle that together signal a storm.

Review: Emma Rice Brings All Of Wuthering Heights To The Stage - TheaterMania.com

Review: Emma Rice Brings All Of Wuthering Heights To The Stage - TheaterMania.com That's a tricky recipe for theatre, but adapter and director emma rice does her darndest, pulling out all the stops with music, movement, and unexpected comedy. Emma rice and her company wise children have brought their stage adaptation of emily bronte’s classic novel to the national theatre following a run at the bristol old vic last year. attempting to stage wuthering heights is a bold idea – it’s a novel which has little room for trimming. Emma rice's theatrical interpretation of emily brontë's dark romantic novel is both epic and skeletal. The main draw to see emma rice’s production of wuthering heights is emma rice herself. her adaptation and inventive restaging and interpretation of bronte’s classic novel brings forward new themes, and while axing some characters, throws light on the true heroes of the story.

Wuthering Heights, Adapted By Emma Rice | Theatre Review | The TLS

Wuthering Heights, Adapted By Emma Rice | Theatre Review | The TLS Emma rice's theatrical interpretation of emily brontë's dark romantic novel is both epic and skeletal. The main draw to see emma rice’s production of wuthering heights is emma rice herself. her adaptation and inventive restaging and interpretation of bronte’s classic novel brings forward new themes, and while axing some characters, throws light on the true heroes of the story. Emma rice’s version of emily brontë’s gothic novel, which has now reached the national, delivers the story with a visceral energy produced by its sheer theatricality. under a menacing skyscape of scudding clouds, a storm rages, the company creating its sound and its movement. Now, in a production first seen at the bristol old vic last autumn, she gives us love thwarted – the wild, unconsummated devotion between catherine earnshaw and heathcliff which emily brontë. Emma rice’s unwieldy production of wuthering heights, newly transferred to the national theatre from bristol old vic, bursts through the door, blustering and boisterous (and complete.

‘Wuthering Heights’ At The National Theatre Review — Emma Rice Brings Humour To The Emily Brontë ...

‘Wuthering Heights’ At The National Theatre Review — Emma Rice Brings Humour To The Emily Brontë ... Emma rice’s version of emily brontë’s gothic novel, which has now reached the national, delivers the story with a visceral energy produced by its sheer theatricality. under a menacing skyscape of scudding clouds, a storm rages, the company creating its sound and its movement. Now, in a production first seen at the bristol old vic last autumn, she gives us love thwarted – the wild, unconsummated devotion between catherine earnshaw and heathcliff which emily brontë. Emma rice’s unwieldy production of wuthering heights, newly transferred to the national theatre from bristol old vic, bursts through the door, blustering and boisterous (and complete.

Wuthering Heights (play) By Emma Rice | Goodreads

Wuthering Heights (play) By Emma Rice | Goodreads Emma rice’s unwieldy production of wuthering heights, newly transferred to the national theatre from bristol old vic, bursts through the door, blustering and boisterous (and complete.

Wuthering Heights (Faber Young Adult Classics) By Emily Brontë | Faber