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JAN 27 - FEB 19, 2023

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.

Seat Map

Additional Credits
A co-production with the
National Theatre, Wise Children,
Bristol Old Vic and
York Theatre Royal
In association with
Berkeley Repertory Theatre


Program for Wise Children's Wuthering Heights
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“A cheerfully anachronistic exploration of the novel replete with live music”

–Chicago Tribune

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.


Additional Credits
A co-production with the National Theatre, Wise Children, Bristol Old Vic and York Theatre Royal
In association with Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Audio Description

FEB 12 Audio Description

Open Captioning

FEB 15 Open Captioning

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.

Seat Map

Audio Description

FEB 12 Audio Description

Open Captioning

FEB 15 Open Captioning

Audio Description

FEB 12 Audio Description

Open Captioning

FEB 15 Open Captioning

“WILDLY IMAGINATIVE & EXHILARATING”

–Daily Mail (UK)

“ENERGETIC AND VIVIDLY STAGED”

–San Francisco Chronicle

“EMMA RICE’S AMBITION IS UNBOUNDED…”

–Broadway World

“EMOTIONALLY EPIC ENTERTAINMENT”

–The Times (UK)

“EMMA RICE’S AMBITION IS UNBOUNDED…”

–Broadway World

“EMOTIONALLY EPIC ENTERTAINMENT”

–The Times (UK)

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