Wuthering Heights was Emily Brontë’s only novel, published in 1847. It is one of the best known works of English fiction, with Emily Brontë one of the earliest successful woman writers. It is an enduring classic, with its dark story of tortured love, cruelty and intensity.

The book has formed the basis of nearly a dozen feature films and television movies. The Fortune’s production is a contemporary stage adaptation by English playwright, Jane Thornton.

The wildness of the growing obsession between the willful Catherine Earnshaw and the ‘gypsy brat’ Heathcliff is reflected in the wild beauty and extreme weather of their surroundings, the Yorkshire moors. As the years pass, so this obsession sparks the near destruction of not only the Earnshaw family, but their neighbours, the Lintons.

Wuthering Heights is on one level a story of love, one which transcends even death; however it is also a penetrating insight into the lives of two isolated and damaged families; a compelling tale of passion, jealousy, rivalry and revenge.

Our 2009 production of Emma, also an adaptation of a classic, proved to be one of the year’s most successful shows. Wuthering Heights, as was Emma, will be directed by Lisa Warrington, with an ensemble cast of five young actors, most of whom play a variety of roles.

The Fortune’s production will be inventively staged, the raw scaffolding of the set being juxtaposed with the metres of silk and flowing satins of the deconstructed Georgian costumes.

It will be a stylish, fascinating, 21st century interpretation of a beloved Victorian classic.