ITA and director Kjersti Horn turn Wuthering Heights into a raw, physical performance about power, class and violence that is passed on from generation to generation. You follow Heathcliff and Catherine in a world in which love and pride constantly collide.

Heathcliff grows up as an outsider in the Earnshaw family. He belongs and yet does not belong. What begins as a deep bond with Catherine turns into humiliation, loss and anger. When he later returns, wealthy and determined, he chooses not for reconciliation but for revenge. In this way Wuthering Heights shows how someone who has been trampled learns to strike back.

Catherine is trapped as well. She navigates between her love for Heathcliff and the place the outside world prescribes for her. That choice cuts straight through her life.

With her powerful, physical style Kjersti Horn exposes the nerve of this famous story. What happens when power determines who may speak, who counts and who is excluded? Especially now, those are questions that remain painfully topical. The ITA Ensemble performs Wuthering Heights as a claustrophobic family drama in which love and violence lie disturbingly close to one another.

• text Emily Brontë adaptation Kjerst Horn & Kristian Lykkeslet Strømskag direction Kjersti Horn performance Aiko Beemsterboer, Eefje Paddenburg, Felix Schellekens, Janni Goslinga, Jasper Stoop & Jesse Mensah