Emily Brontë Archives - Chicago Reader

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.

Dead romantics

by Kerry Reid February 2, 2023February 2, 2023

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 […]

Arts & Culture

Parachute Men, You on the Moors Now, and eight more new theater reviews

by Chicago Reader September 22, 2016August 18, 2021

This week’s stage highlights include three losers who (hopefully) make good and four 19th-century fictional heroines battling their would-be betrotheds.