Content warning: This article mentions sexual and relationship violence. From London’s National Theatre to Navy Pier’s Chicago Shakespeare Theater comes Wise Children and Berkeley Repertory Theater’s production of Wuthering Heights, based on the 1847 novel of the same name by Emily Brontё. Emily Rice’s musical adaptation is flamboyant and flashy but lacking in substance. It.
British theater director Emma Rice, whose work has delighted Bay Area audiences for over a decade, has brought her latest work to Berkeley Repertory Theater, and its as visually stunning, emotionally rich, and intricately staged as everything Rice has done previously.