Wuthering Heights ITA / Kjersti Horn

Directed by Kjersti Horn and performed by the ITA Ensemble, Wuthering Heights becomes a raw, physical performance about class, desire, and the cycle of violence passed down from generation to generation.

Wuthering Heights tells the story of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Heathcliff, a foundling taken in by the Earnshaw family, grows up in a world of passion, jealousy, and social tension. A deep and instinctive bond develops between him and Catherine, but their love is undermined by pride, class, and societal expectations.

Heathcliff is the outsider who was never truly accepted. Humiliated, stripped of language and status, robbed of everything that makes him human. When he returns as a wealthy man, he seeks revenge. But the revenge does not liberate him. Marked by humiliation, he has learned to reproduce the violence that once shaped him. The oppressed becomes the oppressor.

Catherine is trapped in a different structure. Torn between her love for Heathcliff and the expectations of the world around her, she chooses what is expected of her. She betrays her own heart to follow the path laid out for her and pays a crushing price for it.