Blithering Heights

Full-Lengths

By: Sarah C. James
Cast: 8 M, 4 F, 3 flexible, opt. extras (Doubling possible)
Performance Time: Approximately 90 minutes, 82 pgs.

SPOOF. There are mysterious circumstances, arduous quests, improbable events, exaggerated emotions, melodramatic blithering, high adventure, doom and gloom, and even a ghost—and that’s just the original version of Wuthering Heights. This over-the-top spoof pokes fun at all the exaggerated elements of Emily Brontë’s classic Gothic romance novel. Nelly Dean, a servant at Blithering Heights, relates the touching “love” story of how shallow, materialistic Cathy throws her true love, Heathcliff, aside to marry her boring but rich neighbor, Edgar Linton. After all, “What is love without possessions?”

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