Lifeline Theatre Presents WURTHERING HEIGHTS, 9/20-10/31

Lifeline Theatre inaugurates its 28th anniversary MainStage season of "Big Stories, Up Close" with the world premiere adaptation of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights," adapted by Lifeline ensemble member Christina Calvit, directed by Lifeline ensemble member Elise Kauzlaric.  Inseparable from childhood, Heathcliff and Cathy believe themselves eternally bound. But when they are brutally torn apart, the resulting course of retribution provides an unflinching look into the cyclic nature of revenge and the unknowable passions of the heart. Travel across Yorkshire's stormy moors with one of literature's darkest antiheroes in this legendary tale of devotion and redemption. An epic love story, re-imagined as a highly physical work of powerful imagery, by the adaptor and director of "Mariette in Ecstasy." The show runs approximately two hours with one intermission, and copies of the book will be on sale in the lobby. 

Lifeline is offering season subscriptions to all three 28th anniversary season MainStage shows for $75 (and all three KidSeries plays for $27). Also available this year are Lifeline's "Book Club Subscriptions," which include tickets to all three productions of the MainStage season, plus copies of the source books, for only $100. Being a Lifeline subscriber allows patrons to save up to 25% off regular ticket prices; offers discounts on additional tickets for friends and family; gives first choice of seats with unlimited free ticket exchanges (and includes reminder cards for shows selected, plus a reminder call a few days before the reservation); knocks 25% off party room rental for audience pre- or post-show events; and offers invitations to subscriber events such as sneak peeks of the rehearsal process, book discussions with the creative team, and author events (previous writers have included Ron Hansen, Daniel Mason, Sara Paretsky, and Donald Westlake).  

Lifeline has produced numerous world premiere stage adaptations by Calvit (dubbed by the Chicago Tribune as "one of America's best and most overlooked adapter of novels into drama"), including "Queen Lucia: A Musical Romp" (2005 New Work-Musical Non-Equity Jeff Award-winner), "Pistols for Two" (2001 New Adaptation Non-Equity Jeff Award-winner), "The Talisman Ring" (1996 New Adaptation Jeff Award-winner), and most recently "Mariette in Ecstasy" in 2009 (Non-Equity Jeff nomination for Production-Play and New Adaptation). Kauzlaric most recently directed Lifeline's production of "Mariette in Ecstasy," which was also a Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson nominee for Director-Play.

WHERE:                
Lifeline Theatre, 6912 N. Glenwood Ave., Chicago, IL 60626
Parking available (street and lot - see below); CTA accessible (Red Line Morse stop/buses)
Free designated parking lot west of the theatre at the NE corner of Morse and
Ravenswood with free shuttle service before and after the show
Handicapped accessible
 
WHEN:                   
Opens on Monday, September 20, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. (media also invited to final preview on Sunday, September 19, at 4 p.m.) Closes on October 31, 2010
  
TICKETS:           
Publish this number - 773-761-4477; HotTix; https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/1371
 

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