SOUTHAMPTON audiences can join Northern Ballet next month on a journey of passionate and obsessive love as the award-winning company performs Wuthering Heights at the Mayflower Theatre.

Based on Emily Brontë’s romantic masterpiece this dramatic adaptation is choreographed by Northern Ballet’s Artistic Director David Nixon OBE and set to an original score by celebrated composer Claude-Michel Schönberg, known for his West End and Broadway hits Les Misérables and Miss Saigon.

Wuthering Heights tells the story of Cathy and Heathcliff; inseparable as children their childish affection deepens into an overwhelming love but as their lives take different paths their bond develops into a devastating force as unruly and dangerous as the Yorkshire Moors that surround them.

This production will see Northern Ballet’s dancers at their dramatic best capturing the spirit of their characters and drawing the audience into this untameable love story.

Wuthering Heights was David Nixon’s first creation for Northern Ballet and his first collaboration with composer Claude-Michel Schönberg.

David Nixon said: ‘Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is not a novel that you read and put back on the shelf.

"It is a story that absorbs you, creating powerful imagery that stays with you long after you turn the last page.

"In my adaptation of this timeless tale I have brought to life the key elements of the narrative, focusing on the intensity and devastation of the relationship between Cathy and Heathcliff.’

  • Tickets for Wuthering Heights (Wednesday, April 22-Saturday, April 25) are on sale from the Mayflower Theatre box office, tel: 023 8071 1811 or book online at mayflower.org.uk.