Wuthering Heights

Opens: 11/03/2010 Closes: 20/03/2010 Sheffield Lyceum Theatre

Emily Brontë’s romantic tour de force is lovingly adapted in this Northern Ballet Theatre production. The stormy moors of Yorkshire provide the thematic setting for Cathy and Heathcliff’s unruly love. Claude-Michel Schönberg (of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon fame) provides an original score. For more information visit: http://www.northernballettheatre.co.uk/wutheringheights.aspx Buy: http://www.fctt.co.uk/festival_theatre/event.aspx?evtid=270

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90%

Ballet.co.uk“It really is staged so well...” Dance seems the perfect medium for a story of obsessive, destructive love and this production doesn't disappoint. For a start it has a clear, accessible narrative, very effective use of a dance vocabulary for each of the characters...

80 %

The Scotsman“May well leave you reaching for the tissues...” Aided by Claude-Michel Schönberg's rousing score, the moments of extreme love and frustrated hate between Cathy and Heathcliff are everything you could hope for...

100%

The Times“Captures the elemental but brutal romanticism of an English classic...” Dance proves the ideal medium for a tale of animalistic, obsessive and destructive love. This is a marvellous piece and one that means it’s not such a stretch to imagine oneself out on the wiley, windy moors...

Time Out“Not yet reviewed”

The Stage“Not yet reviewed”

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