Wuthering Heights

‘Embraces the extremity of the original… it feels at times almost like a ghost story’

‘The story is Brontë’s, but the most striking element of this version is the modern-sounding dialogue… manages to marry a nineteenth century tale with a modern idiom and make it work well, making the harshness and cruelty of the original freshly shocking to a modern audience without moving radically away from the original’

‘Channels the tumultuous emotions and elemental forces that have made it such an endearing favourite among audiences… flits feverishly between Brontë’s beautifully evocative prose and a more anachronistic and profane re-imagining of her words’

‘Superb… Sheridan’s script distills and elevates the emotional core of the book, bringing the story to fresh life’

Emily Brontë (1818-1848) is best remembered for her only novel Wuthering Heights. She was the second eldest of the three Brontë sisters - between Charlotte and Anne - who spent their entire lives in Haworth, North Yorkshire.

Andrew Sheridan is an actor and playwright. His debut play Winterlong was joint winner of the 2008 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. It was first performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, 2011. Other plays include an adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (Royal Exchange, 2020).