Sturmhöhe

In the organizer's words:

play

based on the novel "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë
In German language

"Wuthering Heights" is an irrepressible, dark fairy tale about abysmal love, violence, revenge and reconciliation, full of longing for nature and death and without moral barriers. The fact that this work was penned by a female author was a scandal in 1847. In Charlotte Sprenger's sensual production, three sisters - inspired by the writing Brontë sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne - invent and act out this wild and free novel. Even as children, the Brontë sisters dreamed up fantasy realms, laying the foundations for their poems and novels. Their father's books, the moorland landscape, the stormy weather and the stubborn people in their immediate surroundings are the inspiration for the powerful adventures of their role-playing games. The girls embody notorious heroes and courageous women, explore observed and invented behavior and shatter social stereotypes. On this evening they play together the story of Heathcliff, the foundling from a faraway land, and Catherine Earnshaw, the tempestuous daughter from Yorkshire. Over the course of the evening, the sisters keep inventing new twists and turns, the consequences of which they impose on each other as characters in their own story. After the death of their father, the brother Hindley is suddenly the Master of Wuthering Heights. He subjugates the siblings, drinks, gambles and squanders the family estate. And when Cathy marries the wealthy and well-educated Edgar Linton from the neighboring estate, Heathcliff leaves the area in humiliation. But the deep affinity between the sisters transcends any separation ... "It is as if Emily Brontë could tear to pieces everything by which we recognize people and fill the unrecognizable with such a spirit of life that it transcends reality." (Virginia Woolf). This content has been machine translated.