This new maximalist, freewheeling version of the classic novel is drenched with ample movement, music, and heightened emotion, rousing the senses with its cornucopia of excesses (although it’s advertised as a musical, I’d argue the piece registers more like a play with music). The production has been adapted for the stage by Emma Rice, who has had a long history of adapting established material – particularly vintage British films – into visceral theatrical experiences (she’s perhaps best known on this side of the pond for adapting Noël Coward’s 1945 film Brief Encounter, which eventually found its way to Broadway in 2010). Ann’s Warehouse and Berkeley Repertory Theater). Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood, I attended Wise Children’s theatrical rendition of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (the staging is a a co-production with the National Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, and York Theatre Royal, in association with St. Lucy McCormick and company in Wise Children’s production of Emma Rice’s stage adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” at St. THE HANGOVER REPORT – Emma Rice’s maximalist stage adaptation of WUTHERING HEIGHTS ecstatically channels the heightened emotions of Emily Brontë’s novel
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