Five actors, representing the Moors, stand in a line. In the center and slightly in front is the Leader of the Moors, wearing brightly colored patchwork trousers, a denim jacket over a white shirt, and a headdress of branches and flowers. The others wear T-shirts and trousers in various dull shades of gray, black, and tan.

Every time I hear someone describe Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights as a “romance,” I die a little inside. It’s a portrait of dysfunction, abuse, codependency, and revenge. Which, sure, I guess is romantic in its own way, but c’mon: Heathcliff and Catherine are the Sid and Nancy of the moors. (Maybe too many people got […]

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