In the 200th anniversary year of Emily Brontë’s birth, "literary lunatics" LipService are back with their Brontë spoof, Withering Looks.
Who is the Brontës’ mysterious neighbour, Mr Moorcock of Ravaged Heath House? Do Lost Souls really wander the wild and heather clad moors? Who should Cathy marry? Heathcliff or David Niven? Plus, Manchester’s very own Mrs Gaskell drops by for tea and sympathy.
LipService, otherwise known as Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding, have been writing and performing together since 1985, touring nationally and internationally. They have written 19 original comedies for the stage, and have twice won the Critics’ Award for Comedy and the Stage Door Foundation Award.
Withering Looks won a Manchester Evening News Theatre Award and the Critics’ award for Comedy at the Edinburgh Festival.
It runs from October 16 to 20 at Oldham Coliseum Theatre.