This is a high-definition cinema screening of Wuthering Heights, presented by Wise Children. Director Emma Rice reimagines Emily Brontë’s classic novel through a music-driven theatrical lens, blending storytelling, movement, and sound to explore love, obsession, and revenge.

About the Show

Wuthering Heights is a stage adaptation of Emily Brontë’s enduring novel, presented here as a high-definition screening of a live theatre production. First published over 170 years ago, the story follows Heathcliff, a foundling taken in by the Earnshaw family, whose intense bond with Catherine sets off a cycle of love, resentment, and revenge that spans generations.

This adaptation is created by director Emma Rice, who reshapes the novel’s dark Gothic tone into a theatrical experience driven by music, movement, and heightened emotion. While retaining the central characters and complex relationships, the production emphasizes romantic intensity and psychological depth through a bold and imaginative stage language.

Cast & Creatives

Emma Rice
Director
Emma Rice is known for her distinctive theatrical style, often combining music, dance, and visual storytelling. In this production, she employs techniques such as multi-role performance, expressive use of sound and lighting, personified natural elements, and songs that directly convey the characters’ inner emotions.

Vicki Mortimer
Set Designer
Working closely with Emma Rice, Vicki Mortimer’s stage design recreates the bleak and wild landscapes of Yorkshire, reinforcing the emotional undercurrent of sorrow and intensity that runs through the story.

Why Go

This screening offers a chance to experience a contemporary British stage interpretation of a literary classic through cinema-quality projection. It is well suited for audiences interested in classic literature adaptations, visually imaginative theatre, and productions where music and movement play a central storytelling role.