Novels are such interior things: we tumble into them inside our minds. But theatre is external, a conduit for makeshift community and collective experience, and to achieve that same transportation requires a more amplified magic.
Luckily UK director Emma Rice, who also wrote this adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, is a magician. She takes the book’s ghost story and re-makes it in the style of one of our oldest theatrical traditions: a Greek tragedy. In her hands, Wuthering Heights reaches beyond the page to become mythology – and offer us a warning.
