Wuthering Heights Cast Announcement

We are excited to announce that our professional actors for our Wuthering Heights production are Hamish MacAulay as Heathcliff and Ishbel Cumming as Catherine.

Originally hailing from Southampton and with many Hebridean roots, Hamish is a young actor/writer graduating from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, an avid Shakespeare fan, who is passionate about the classics. Hamish dares to endeavour in the art of being a versatile performer; working also in the realms of motion capture and voice over.

Ishbel trained at the Guildford School of Acting, and has acted on the stage as The Vision in The Woman in Black; Understudy Ginny in Relatively Speaking; Understudy and played Peg and Martina in Magic Goes Wrong; Claire & Understudy Spitzmaus, Mind Mangler, and Eugenia in Magic Goes Wrong UK & Ireland No.1 Tour. She has also acted on television in Urban Myths (Sky) as Mary Dickens.

We are also proud to announce that some of our talented Youth Theatre members are joining the cast:

• Toby Potter – Hareton
• Fran Lewis – Young Cathy
• Beth Fawkes – Young Catherine
• Alex Eversham – Branderham
• Cameron Penny – Young Hindley
• Ted Slough – Young Heathcliff
• Natasha Bugaj-Tanner – Frances
• George Martin – Linton Heathcliff
• Jacob Brydon – Lad
• Ensemble: Cameron Penny, Imogen Norman, Jacob Brydon, Jasmine Watkins, Cordelia Holzer, Ted Slough, Katie McColgan, Beth Fawkes, Isis Macklin-Evans, Lily Gillespie, Alex Eversham and Holly Jamieson

And we are also being joined by some skilled actors from our local community:

• Warren Alexander – Mr Lockwood
• Tim Pitcher – Joseph/Old Mr Linton
• Dawn Lewis – Zillah/Ensemble
• Laura Gwynne – Nelly
• Nathan Cole – Edgar
• Daisy Kennedy – Isabella
• Hilary Jones – Servant/May/Ensemble
• Michael Diggle – Adult Hindley

“I’m really excited to be working with such an incredible and talented group of people.” Says director David Durant.  “The combination of youth theatre members, performers from the community and professionally trained actors makes for a great cast that brings so much in terms of talent, great attitudes and bags of energy.”

Book your tickets to Wuthering Heights!

Passion, obsession, and revenge collide in this fierce new staging of Emily Brontë’s masterpiece. Watch as Heathcliff and Cathy’s devastating love story ignites the stage, brought to life by a unique ensemble of professional actors performing alongside the brightest talents from our local community and Youth Theatre.

When a mysterious orphan boy is taken in by the Earnshaw family, no one could predict how his intense connection with young Cathy would unleash decades of passion, betrayal, and vengeance. Their destructive love affair haunts two generations, poisoning everyone it touches. As storms rage across the moors, dark secrets surface, and long-buried emotions explode into life. This daring new production cuts straight to the heart of Brontë’s gothic masterpiece, revealing its raw power.