National Theatre announces new adaptation of Wuthering Heights from Emma Rice

Wise Children: Emma Rice will direct and adapt Wuthering Heights for the National Theatre stage
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Zoe Paskett13 September 2019

Emma Rice is set to direct a new adaptation of Wuthering Heights at the National Theatre.

The director will adapt Emily Brontë’s masterpiece book herself, in what will be a co-production with her company Wise Children and York Theatre Royal.

The show will open in the Lyttleton Theatre in autumn next year, before touring the UK.

Rice said: “"I loved Wuthering Heights with a passion as a teenager. I thought it was a love story, a wild romance. I now find little love within its pages, but these multi-layered readings are what makes it such a fascinating story.

“My Wuthering Heights promises to be a revenge tragedy for our time - but it will also be about hope. I want to wrestle hatred to the earth and let a new story grow.”

The cast for Wuthering Heights has yet to be announced.

Wise Children was named after the company’s first production, an adaptation of Angela Carter’s novel which ran at the Old Vic in 2018.

Elsewhere in the National Theatre season, it was announced that Hugo Weaving will join Lesley Manville in Tony Kushner's The Visit or The Old Lady Comes to Call, and Ben Daniels joins the cast of Moira Buffini's Manor.

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