Kneehigh Theatre

Kneehigh Theatre

Kneehigh Theatre is a theatre company in Cornwall.

Kneehigh was started in 1980 by Mike Shepherd. Early productions were performed invillage halls, marquees, cliff-tops and quarries. Their productions are often based around mythological tales such as the Hans Christian Andersen fairy-tale "The Red Shoes", "The Bacchae" and the Cornish legend "Tristan and Yseult". Their artistic director Emma Rice won Best Director 2002, Barclays Theatre Awards.

Their productions often have a nightmarish, surrealist, mythical feelFact|date=August 2008 and are often performed outside in locations such as Restormel Castle, the Minack Theatre and the Eden Project.

In the autumn of 2007, Kneehigh toured village halls in Cornwall with "Blast! A Cornish Expose Performed by 3 Complete Idiots!" and presented Noël Coward's "Brief Encounter" in Birmingham and at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. They are currently performing Brief Encounter at the Cinema Haymarket in the West End.

Productions

* "The Bacchae" - 2004, won the TMA Theatre Awards for best touring production of 2004.(The Stage review [http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/4473] )

* "Tristan and Yseult" - 2004, toured internationally in conjunction with the National Theatre (The Stage review [http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/7442] )

* "Nights at the Circus" - 2006, tour co-produced with the Lyric Hammersmith and Bristol Old Vic. (The Stage review [http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/11410/nights-at-the-circus] )

* William Shakespeare's "Cymbeline", (The Times review [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14936-2371286,00.html] ).

* "Rapunzel" at BAC - 2006/07 Christmas period. (The Stage review [http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/15317/rapunzel] )

* "A Matter of Life and Death" - From May 2007, at the National Theatre. The play is based on the film of the same name by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. (The Observer review [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/drama/reviews/story/0,,2078331,00.html] ).

* Brief Encounter toured England before opening in 2008 on the Haymarket, London.

External links

* [http://www.kneehigh.co.uk/ Kneehigh Theatre]


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