Horrified by the cruelty shown to children seeking asylum in Britain, the director has adapted Emily Brontë’s book which has haunted her since her teens

Warm, wily and gloriously playful, Emma Rice’s adaptation of the 1987 film is another motel-and-ballad show triumph for the Old Vic

Emma Rice’s version of the 1987 movie is an outrageously sentimental ode to friendship and oddballs meeting amid Californian tumbleweed

As the legendary Cornwall-based theatre company closes, the people who made its astonishing productions look back on four decades of mayhem and innovation

Emma Rice’s imaginative reworking features lovely singing, pleasing comedy, striking stage designs – and a misjudged moment of sadness