Cathy Haunts Catherine
A Ghost Story for People Who Don’t Believe in Ghosts
based on Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
based on Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Bechdel test asks whether a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. Cathy Haunts Catherine goes even further. It never mentions any males at all.
Synopsis
Locked up in a room at Wuthering Heights, Catherine Linton must decide whether to get married in the morning. Her fellow prisoner Ellen tries to dissuade her. And so does her mother’s ghost.
Characters
CATHERINE LINTON, practical teenage girl
ELLEN DEAN, gruff middle-aged housekeeper
CATHY EARNSHAW, passionate teenage girl, the ghost of Catherine’s mother
Setting
A room at Wuthering Heights in Yorkshire, England
Time
1801
This play may be performed as part of the collection Girls Rock the Classics.
Synopsis
Locked up in a room at Wuthering Heights, Catherine Linton must decide whether to get married in the morning. Her fellow prisoner Ellen tries to dissuade her. And so does her mother’s ghost.
Characters
CATHERINE LINTON, practical teenage girl
ELLEN DEAN, gruff middle-aged housekeeper
CATHY EARNSHAW, passionate teenage girl, the ghost of Catherine’s mother
Setting
A room at Wuthering Heights in Yorkshire, England
Time
1801
This play may be performed as part of the collection Girls Rock the Classics.
Summer Playwrights Festival
Open Space Arts
Reisterstown, Maryland
August 4-13, 2023
Cast: Mia Teague (Catherine), Paris Brown (Ellen), Angelique Miller (Cathy)
Directed by Angela De Bow
Open Space Arts
Reisterstown, Maryland
August 4-13, 2023
Cast: Mia Teague (Catherine), Paris Brown (Ellen), Angelique Miller (Cathy)
Directed by Angela De Bow
Angelique Miller (Cathy), Paris Brown (Ellen) and Mia Teague (Catherine)
Angelique Miller (Cathy) and Paris Brown (Ellen)
(online reading)
P.A.G.E.S.
New York, NY
May 24, 2022
Cast: Saoirse Hooper (Catherine), Colleen Kennedy (Ellen), Victoria Freedman (Cathy)
P.A.G.E.S.
New York, NY
May 24, 2022
Cast: Saoirse Hooper (Catherine), Colleen Kennedy (Ellen), Victoria Freedman (Cathy)
Saoirse Hooper (Catherine), Colleen Kennedy (Ellen) and Victoria Freedman (Cathy)
Write About Now: Ghost Stories
Studio at New Wimbledon Theatre
London
October 20, 2019
Cast: Rachel Thomas, Libby Mulligan, Charlotte Hunter
Directed by Danai Iris Hale
Podcast (Cathy Haunts Catherine starts at 37:30)
Studio at New Wimbledon Theatre
London
October 20, 2019
Cast: Rachel Thomas, Libby Mulligan, Charlotte Hunter
Directed by Danai Iris Hale
Podcast (Cathy Haunts Catherine starts at 37:30)