Emily Brontë’s gothic romance is so often cleansed of its darkest elements, from violent family abuse and animal torture to necrophilia and murderous desire.
This gloriously imaginative co-production, adapted by Ben Lewis and Lucinka Eisler, digs up all the death-obsessed, savage melodrama of the original love story between Catherine (Lua Bairstow) and Heathcliff (Ike Bennett), and adds its own killer ingredient: coal black humour. It works stupendously to create awful, awkward laughter.
