Wuthering Heights is an evolving work and I'm very happy to have the opportunity to present this musical adaptation of Emily Bronte's haunting and powerful novel to an audience for the first time.

I get emotional trying to express the cultural connection to the primal threads that run viscerally within Emily Bronte's work. I grew up in Doncaster in Yorkshire, as a boy playing "Robin Hood" in the remains of Sherwood Forest and chasing around Scarborough Castle on family summer holidays, being a Knight In Armor! Mix this to the pensive and fertile soil of this young Northern lad's imagination, school trips to The Bronte Parsonage in Haworth and the awe-inspiring ruins of Fountain's Abbey, and you might understand my lifelong love affair with the ancient, gritty and hauntingly romantic landscapes of Yorkshire.

One wet Sunday afternoon in the early 70's, my mother told me I had to go with Sandra (my sister) to see a film as she was studying for her English Literature A level exam. Usually going to "the pictur