Wuthering Heights

Based on the novel by Emily Brontë
Adapted & Directed By Kenny Morris

April 14-May 1, 2011
Thursday-Sunday Nights at 8pm

Performed at 5th Avenue Antiques

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's gothic novel about the destructive, obsessive love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, an orphan brought into her family's home. After being separated by Catherine's marriage to another man for social status, Heathcliff seeks elaborate, multi-generational revenge against those who wronged him, leading to a cycle of cruelty and suffering on the wild Yorkshire moors. Adapted for the stage by Kenny Morris.

Featuring: Susan Cook, Chris Boucher, Will Rainer, Dane Albright, Mark Castle, Kelsey Crawford, S. Michael Wilson, Jonathan Sweatt

AL.COM REVIEW
“Morris’ lavish set is impressive, capturing all the mystery and majesty that is Wuthering Heights, the mansion. ”
— Alec Harvey

Emily Brontë (1818–1848) was a pioneering British novelist and poet, best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights. A member of the prominent Brontë family of writers, she lived a largely private life in the Yorkshire moors, which heavily influenced her work. Brontë co-published a collection of poems with her sisters Charlotte and Anne in 1846 before Wuthering Heights was published in 1847, and she died of tuberculosis at age thirty in December 1848.  

Kenny Morris is a Birmingham-based actor and director. He wrote successful stage adaptations of Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice, and has always directed (for Theatre Downtown) Kimberly Akimbo and Fahrenheit 451.