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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Kneehigh Theatre’s Tristan & Yseult shows the low comedy and high anguish of love
The troupe from Cornwall, UK, appearing as part of Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s World’s Stage series, does romance right.