Inside Jaclyn Backhaus’ head is where I want to live!
And I did, for two weeks! In a workshop of her new play Healthcliff!! at New Dramatists.
Heathcliff!! aims to reclaim Wuthering Heights’ bad boy as the character of color he was originally written as. Jaclyn imagines him as an Indian ship slave seeking revenge on his shipmaster and the East India Company.
I played not only Cathy’s alcoholic brother Hindley, but also a sailor in an anthropomorphic love affair with the sea, AND Hindley’s foul mouthed toddler. Emerald Fennell could never ;)