CHAPTERHOUSE Theatre Company will be visiting Burnby Hall Gardens and Museum in Pocklington this summer with their production of Wuthering Heights

This year marks the company's 17th year of touring UK and Ireland, bringing to life some of literature’s best-loved classics in magical outdoor performances.

Emily Bronte’s classic love story set on the beautiful, mysterious wilderness of the Yorkshire moors, is a treasured story of enduring love and passion that has thrilled and entranced for generations and is now brought alive on stage in an adaptation by award-winning writer Laura Turner.

Chapterhouse has established a tradition in period plays with critically-acclaimed, sell-out performances of Austen, Gaskell and Brontë adaptations. This is the second time that Chapterhouse has toured with this particular production after an incredibly successful debut circuit in 2014.

Laura said: “As an enormous fan of the Brontës, adapting Wuthering Heights for the open air stage was a dream come true.

"There is something thrilling about the sheer drama and emotion of this story and to me, an open air setting could not be more fitting.

"I hope that this adaptation brings the passion between Cathy and Heathcliff alive to pay true homage to Emily Brontë's unforgettable novel."

Rebecca Gadsby, director, added: “Wuthering Heights is such a wonderfully enticing story for a director, full of passion, rage, anger, manipulation and some very complex characters.

"It also has one of the most complicated love stories in literature. But these elements make it a joy for a creative team to work on, because there is so much unsaid between the characters that we have plenty of scope for interpretation. I want to take the audience on a journey through the emotional highs and lows that Brontë so excellently explores in her novel. And what better backdrop to do this, than the wild English countryside?"

Wuthering Heights is at Burnby Hall Gardens & Museum, Pocklington, on Friday, August 5, at 7.30pm

For tickets, phone 01759 307125 or 0871 220 0260 or go to seetickets.com