Emily Bronte’s classic text Wuthering Heights is a dramatic, romantic tragedy.

Adapting and performing a classic such as this is no easy task but Heartbreak Productions’ adaptation told the story with clarity and simplicity.

Ros Wehner was responsible for the adaptation and there was no fault to be found.

The set was spartan and some of the actors doubled up as characters, but it was this very arrangement that made it that little more real. Wuthering Heights is a gritty and wild tale of ill-fated love and vengeance.

Nelly Dean (Maddy Kerr) serves as the maid and narrator regailing the sad tale as we watch Wuthering Heights transform from a grand, warm house to a sad and desolate dwelling matching the moors that surround it.

Once Wuthering Heights was filled with light, warmth and happiness as Mr Earnshaw, a gentleman farmer, lives happily with his boisterous children Cathy (Gabrielle Meadows) and Hindley (Laurence Aldridge).

However, being a kind and generous man, he can't help rescuing a poor starving boy off of the streets of Liverpool, a gypsy child named Heathcliff (Thomas Hayler).

In time Heathcliff becomes one of the family, loved by all except Hindley. Cathy is an especially good friend and spends many a carefree day playing on the moor with Heathcliff. But when Mr Earnshaw dies suddenly, Hindley turns and condemns Heathcliff to the stable.

As time passes there is only one reason why Heathcliff stays and that is to be with Cathy.

Despite all, there is a love between them that refuses to die but whilst Cathy has wild, gypsy blood in her and that side of her personality loves to run through the heather with Heathcliff, the more civilised half desires fine dresses and a respectable station in society, all things which Edgar Linton (Laurence Aldridge) can provide.

Cathy marries Edgar and Heathcliff marries Isabella Linton (Gemma Kelly) Edgar’s younger sister purely for money rather than for love.

Harsh lessons are learnt by all and more twists and turns ensue before Cathy and Heathcliff are finally reunited forever...at the grave.

Lucia Clifford 7/10