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I'm on the train home from the centre of London as I'm writing this. Tonight my brother, my mum and I went to see 'Wuthering Heights' at the Ambassadors theatre near Shaftsbury Avenue. We booked this a while back and to be honest I didn't think it was going to be anything unique. I thought it was going to be like every other theatre production; acting the characters in the way as the book, the same actors playing the same characters and massive setting props on the stage. However it was nothing like that!
It was only one hour and a half with no interval, but the whole plot and meaning was fully portrayed throughout. What fascinated me was that the two main characters, Katy and Heathcliff, we're looking back on their life and what had led up to the events that followed. This gave me the impression that they were in actual fact dead, which was definitely a different perspective to base the whole performance on. Also, throughout the performance there were different actors playing Katy and Heathcliff (from the past), whilst the present Katy and Heathcliff were still being played by the same actors- does that makes sense? haha!! This really intrigued me as it was a different way of interpreting and sort of twisting the original storyline. The way they portrayed settings and locations were different to what I have previously seen as, each character used the stage fully and they only had basic table and chairs on stage for the whole performance. The actors then used the table and chairs to portray different situations and settings that occurred within the book, but they also had pieces of rubber (that looked like dirt and gravel) scattered around the stage. I really liked the way the used the pieces of rubber to portray earth and soil; life and death (the dirt from a grave and even a baby). The atmosphere was very eerie and sinister which definitely helped to show the personality of Heathcliff as well as the other characters. The overall performance was different to what I have seen before but I would definitely recommend it!!! This performance actually helped me to understand the meaning behind 'Wuthering Heights' more than reading the book; thanks mum for booking the tickets!!! Thought I'd share my opinion of the theatre production, and I thought it would be a great addition to my blog website! Hopefully I will write more on different theatre performances I see in the future! Thanks for reading :)
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