WUTHERING HEIGHTS created by Inspector Sands after Emily Bronte to open at Royal & Derngate in April 2023

Inspector Sands will tour their first mid-scale show in 2023, a brand new contemporary adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, at Northampton’s Royal & Derngate from 24 April-6 May 2023, ahead of a UK tour, playing Oxford, London, Warwick and Newcastle.

Channelling Emily Brontë’s piercing wit and fierce emotion, Inspector Sands present a retelling of this classic story of obsessive love and revenge in a thrilling new version for our times, drawing out themes of intergenerational trauma, radicalisation, and social exclusion…confronting audiences with urgent questions and home truths.

Told through the eyes and memories of housekeeper Nelly, alone in her kitchen during a long night of the soul, haunted by the story she relives again and again.

This new Inspector Sands’ adaptation has been conceived and developed by founding members Lucinka Eisler and Ben Lewis, with the script written by Ben Lewis and the production directed by Lucinka Eisler. Designer Jamie Vartan will be bringing the moors and manors to life with integral sound design by Elena Peña.

Artistic Director, Royal & Derngate, Northampton, James Dacre, said: “Over the past four years it has been thrilling to collaborate with Inspector Sands, one of the most innovative, provocative and skilful companies we’ve worked with. We’re so proud that they will be the fifth independent theatre company making their MainStage debut at Royal & Derngate this season and look forward to sharing their unique interpretation of Wuthering Heights with audiences in Northamptonshire and on tour across the UK. And we can’t imagine working with any better co-producing partners on this project than the brilliant China Plate and Oxford Playhouse.”

Full casting to be announced.