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Exhibition: Wuthering Heights Costumes at Brontë Parsonage Museum until December 31 2010.
Fans of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights might like to visit the Brontë Parsonage Museum in the coming months as it plays host to some of the costumes from the latest TV adaptation of the classic novel.
Outfits seen in ITV's bank holiday costume drama, including dresses worn by Charlotte Riley as Cathy and the dramatic long black coat of Heathcliff, played with suitably brooding menace by Tom Hardy, are being displayed within the period rooms of the Museum.
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Emily Brontë's only novel, Wuthering Heights, tells the story of the passionate but thwarted love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw and, perhaps more than any novel of the Brontë sisters, draws upon the bleak backdrop of the Yorkshire Moors to create a desolate, Gothic atmosphere.
The ITV drama is the latest in a long line of adaptations, films and dramas and was filmed at various locations in Yorkshire after being adapted for television by BAFTA-winning screenwriter Peter Bowker.
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Designed by Amy Roberts, the costumes have been loaned by Mammoth Screen Productions and Angels Costumiers, London. Amy Roberts is a BAFTA award winning costume designer for film and television, amongst her credits are the BBC’s Oliver Twist and Elizabeth I: Virgin Queen.
Peter Bowker will be visiting Haworth, along with members of the production team, in October 2009 to speak about the process of adapting such a classic novel for television, as part of the Museum’s contemporary arts programme of talks and events.
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