Based on the Novel by
Emily Brontë
Adapted & Directed by
Emma Rice
The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare
Wuthering Heights
Based on the Novel by
Emily Brontë
Adapted & Directed by
Emma Rice
The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare
Run Time: 2 hours, 50 minutes (including intermission)
Audience Notice: The production includes scenes that contain depictions of physical and sexual violence. The staging also features strobes, flashing lights, haze effects, and prop weaponry.
“A cheerfully anachronistic exploration of the novel replete with live music”
Groundbreaking theatermaker Emma Rice returns with an exuberant reimagining of Emily Brontë’s gothic masterpiece, Wuthering Heights. Live music, dance, puppetry, and a dash of impish irreverence combine in an intoxicating revenge tragedy for our time. On the wild moors of Yorkshire, an orphaned Heathcliff is adopted by the Earnshaws and taken to live at Wuthering Heights, where he finds a kindred spirit in Catherine. As they grow up together, a fierce love ignites between them—and when forced apart, a brutal chain of events is unleashed in an epic story of passion, revenge, and redemption.
Wuthering Heights is a co-production with the National Theatre, Wise Children, Bristol Old Vic, and York Theatre Royal in association with Berkeley Repertory Theatre. This celebrated co-production from the UK is part of Chicago Shakespeare’s WorldStage Series—a landmark commitment to bring the world’s great theaters to Chicago and Chicago Shakespeare to the world.
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Run Time: 2 hours, 50 minutes (including intermission)
Audience Notice: The production includes scenes that contain depictions of physical and sexual violence. The staging also features strobes, flashing lights, haze effects, and prop weaponry.
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FEB 15 Open Captioning
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“WILDLY IMAGINATIVE & EXHILARATING”
“ENERGETIC AND VIVIDLY STAGED”