Hurlevent

Catherine loves Heathcliff, an abandoned child raised as her brother. But she marries another, richer, more decent man. Humiliated, Heathcliff devises a terrible revenge.

Wuthering Heights is a brutal, dark work, haunted by social violence, ghosts and the rage to exist. Maëlle Dequiedt revisits this mythical work by Emily Brontë, breaking with romantic clichés in favor of iconoclastic theater, in search of the profound humanity of these characters. Freely mixing the novel with poems and elements from Emily Brontë's life, the director engages in a dialogue with this author grappling with the morality of her time, composing a highly personal show that asks essential questions: what to do with the stories that shaped us as teenagers?

On stage, the performers confront this novel-monster, driven by live music from composer and performer Nadia Ratsimandresy. The stage becomes a field of tension, where passions are embodied in voice, breath and bodies, the better to reveal what words hide: captivity but also the tools to free oneself from it.