Kneehigh Theatre was an international touring theatre company founded in 1980 by Mike Shepherd and based in Cornwall, England. The company was based in barns on the southern Cornish coast, at Gorran Haven, but the administration was in Truro.[1] On 3 June 2021, Kneehigh announced it would close.[2]
Kneehigh was started in 1980 by Mike Shepherd. Early productions were performed in village halls, marquees, cliff-tops and quarries. Their productions were often based around mythological tales such as the Hans Christian Andersenfairy-taleThe Red Shoes, The Bacchae and the Cornish legend Tristan and Yseult. Their artistic director Emma Rice won Best Director 2002, Barclays Theatre Awards.[3]
Between 1989 and 2006, Sue Hill and Bill Mitchell were working as part of Kneehigh on work that was happening outdoors and on site, influenced heavily by such groups as Footsbarn Theatre and Welfare State International. However, feeling that Kneehigh was pulling in two different directions, one based in studios and theatres, and the other based in the landscape, Hill and Mitchell formed their own company Wildworks. The first Wildworks productions were initially co-productions with Kneehigh until 2006 when they made Souterrain, their first independent production.[5]
Nominated for the TMA Award for Best Touring Production 2004
The Company
Although the company varied between productions, there were a number of associate artists who were repeatedly involved with Kneehigh including:
Bec Applebee, Performer, Peer Gynt, Ship of Fools, Wind fall, The Bogus, Raven Heart, Wagstaffe the Wind Up Boy, Ghost Nets 1 and 2, Women who threw the Day away, The Three Island Project: The old Man with Enormous wings, Anybody like Me, Telling Tales, The King of Prussia, The Riot, Pandora's Box, The Red Shoes, The Wooden frock, RAA.
Simon Baker, sound designer. Brief Encounter, Don John, The Wild Bride
Stu Barker, performer, composer & musical director. A Matter of Life and Death, Tristan & Yseult, Cubeline, Brief Encounter, Nights at the Circus, Rapunzel, The Bacchae, The Wooden Frock, Pandora's Box, The Red Shoes, The Itch, Roger Salmon, Don John, The Wild Bride
Jim Carey, performer & musical director. The Riot, Strange Cargo, The King of Prussia, Tregeagle, Ship of Fools, Peer Gynt, Windfall, Ting Tang Mine, The Bogus, Ravenheart, The Lost Stories of Don Quixote, The Arabian Nights
Paul Crewes, producer. The Bacchae, The Wooden Frock, Cymbeline, Rapunzel, Don John, The Wild Bride
Gisli Orn Gardarsson, performer. A Matter of Life and Death, Nights at the Circus, Don John
Carl Grose, performer & writer. Performer: The King of Prussia, Strange Cargo, Wagstaffe the Wind-up Boy, Chucky Vs Alien, Nights at the Circus, Cymbeline, Blast!, Don John, Hansel & Gretel Writer: Quicksilver, Tristan & Yseult, The Bacchae, Cymbeline, Hansel & Gretel, The Wild Bride
Craig Johnson, performer. Cry Wolf, Quicksilver, Skulduggery, Tristan & Yseult, The Bacchae, Cymbeline, A Matter of Life and Death, Blast!, Journey to the Centre of the Earth (which he also directed), Don John, Hansel & Gretel
Amanda Lawrence, performer. The Wooden Frock Tristan & Yseult, Knights at the Circus, Brief Encounter
Dom Lawton, performer & musician. A Matter of Life and Death, Annabelle Lee, Cymbeline, Hanging Around, Don John
Robert Luckay, performer. The Bacchae, Cymbeline
Jack Morrison. The Wooden Frock, Wagstaffe the Wind up Boy, The Bacchae, ,Journey to the Centre of the Earth, A Matter of Life and Death, Cymbeline, Rapunzel, Blast!, Don John, Tristan & Yseult
Anna Maria Murphy, writer. Tristan & Yseult, The Bacchae, The Red Shoes, Skulduggery, Doubtful Island, Ghost Nets, Women Who Threw the Day Away, Telling Tales
Dave Mynne, performer & founder member. Don John
Emma Rice, artistic director and performer. The Red Shoes, The Wooden Frock, The Bacchae, Tristan & Yseult, Nights at the Circus, Cymbeline, A Matter of Life and Death, Rapunzel, Brief Encounter, Don John, The Wild Bride.
Malcolm Rippeth, lighting designer. Brief Encounter, Cymbeline, Nights at the Circus, The Bacchae, Pandora's Box, Don John, The Wild Bride
Ian Ross, musician. Brief Encounter, Don John, Hansel and Gretel, The Red Shoes, The Wild Bride, Tristan and Yseult, Midnights Pumpkin, 946, Dead Dog in a Suitcase, The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, Composer Hansel and Gretel,Very Old man with Enormous wings, the Flying Lovers of Vitebsk
Mike Shepherd, performer and founder. The Red Shoes, The Wooden Frock, The Bacchae, A Matter of Life and Death, Cymbeline, Rapunzel, Blast!, Don John, Tristan & Yseult
Tristan Sturrock, performer. Brief Encounter, A Matter of Life and Death, The Riot, Tristan and Yseult, The King of Prussia, Tregeagle, Ship of Fools, Peer Gynt, The Ashmaid, Danger My Ally, Windfall, Don John
Michael Vale, designer. Rapunzel, Cymbeline
Alex Wardle, lighting designer. Tristan & Yseult, Rapunzel, The Wooden Frock, The Riot, The Red Shoes
Mary Woodvine, performer. The Young Man of Cury, Windfall, King of Prussia, The Riot, Fishboy, Skullduggery, Don John
Sarah Wright, puppet designer / director, performer. Wild Bride, Dead Dog in a Suitcase, 946, Tin Drum, Brief Encounter, Very Old Man With Enormous Wings.
References
^Trueman, Matt (18 September 2017). "'The church of the lost cause': inside Kneehigh's wild Cornish home". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 December 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^. Kneehigh Theater. Archived from the original on 3 June 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
^"Contributors – Conference 09 – Events – The Theatres Trust". theatrestrust.org.uk. 2013. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
^"Cornwall Tourism Awards". visitcornwall.com. 2012. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
^. www.wildworks.biz. Archived from the original on 27 March 2009. Retrieved 11 April 2009.
^"U.K. Hit Brief Encounter Opens A.C.T. Season in San Francisco Sept. 11 - Playbill". Playbill. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
^"Associate Artists". Kneehigh. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
^Laura Barnett, Portrait of the artist: Emma Rice, artistic director, The Guardian, 29 May 2012.
^Clapp, Susannah (6 May 2007). "Sweet dreams are made of this". The Observer. from the original on 25 May 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
^. www.thestage.co.uk. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 11 May 2007.
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This article relies excessively on references to primary sources Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources Find sources Kneehigh Theatre news newspapers books scholar JSTOR November 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message Kneehigh Theatre was an international touring theatre company founded in 1980 by Mike Shepherd and based in Cornwall England The company was based in barns on the southern Cornish coast at Gorran Haven but the administration was in Truro 1 On 3 June 2021 Kneehigh announced it would close 2 Contents 1 Overview 2 Productions 3 The Company 4 References 5 External linksOverview EditKneehigh was started in 1980 by Mike Shepherd Early productions were performed in village halls marquees cliff tops and quarries Their productions were 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 3 Their productions have been performed in locations such as Restormel Castle Minack Theatre National Theatre Shakespeare s Globe Royal Shakespeare Company and the Eden Project as well as their award winning 4 Asylum Season They used a variety of theatrical elements including puppetry live music often played with folk instruments such as ukuleles and dulcimers and an emphasis on visual imagery Between 1989 and 2006 Sue Hill and Bill Mitchell were working as part of Kneehigh on work that was happening outdoors and on site influenced heavily by such groups as Footsbarn Theatre and Welfare State International However feeling that Kneehigh was pulling in two different directions one based in studios and theatres and the other based in the landscape Hill and Mitchell formed their own company Wildworks The first Wildworks productions were initially co productions with Kneehigh until 2006 when they made Souterrain their first independent production 5 In the autumn of 2007 Kneehigh toured village halls in Cornwall with Blast A Cornish Expose Performed by 3 Complete Idiots and presented Noel Coward s Brief Encounter in Birmingham and at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds After finishing a run of Brief Encounter at the Cinema Haymarket in the West End the show toured the UK before going overseas to American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco California 6 St Ann s Warehouse in Brooklyn and the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis After that Kneehigh took their work to the United States Australia New Zealand China and Syria and other countries whilst continuing to tour work in the UK They were an associate company of Bristol Old Vic and Shakespeare s Globe in London Simon Harvey was resident associate director 7 Productions EditProduction Based on adapted from Produced by Venue Toured Year AwardsFup fup by Jim Dodge N a Asylum Uk 2018 UnknownUbu A Singalong Satire Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry N A Asylum Uk 2018 19 NoneThe Dancing Frog The Dancing Frog by Quentin Blake N A Asylum N A 2018 19 NoneThe Tin Drum The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass N A Asylum UK 2018 NoneThe Flying Lovers of Vitebsk Marc Chagall and his wife Bella N A N A N A UK Tour 2016 N A946 946 by Michael Morpurgo N A Asylum N A UK amp US 2016 N ARebecca Daphne du Maurier David Pugh Ltd Asylum N A UK 2015 N ADead Dog in a Suitcase and other love songs The Beggar s Opera N A N A N A UK amp US 2014 amp 2015 N ATristan amp Yseult N A N A National Theatre N A UK 2006 2013 amp US 2013 15 N ABrief Encounter Brief Encounter and Still Life by Noel Coward N A West End 2008 amp 2018 N A UK Tour and USA Tour 2009 Broadway 2010 Australia and US tour 2013 14 Nominated for four Olivier Awards and two Tony AwardsA Very Old Man With Enormous Wings N A Little Angel Theatre N A N A UK 2013 N ASteptoe and son N A N A Asylum N A UK amp US N AThe Wild Bride N A N A Asylum N A UK Tour San Francisco New York New Zealand 2011 13 N AThe Wild Bride N A N A Asylum amp Battersea Arts Centre 2012 N A UK Tour San Francisco New York New Zealand 2011 13 N AWah Wah Girls 8 N A Sadler s Wells Theatre Theatre Royal Stratford East N A N A N AThe Umbrellas of Cherbourg The Umbrellas of Cherbourg by Jacques Demy Gielgud Theatre N A N A N A N AThe Red Shoes N A N A N A N A UK Tour 2001 2 amp UK USA and Australia 2010 11 Winner of TMA for Best Director 2002Hansel amp Gretel N A N A N A N A 2010 11 N AThe King of Prussia N A N A N A N A 2010 N ABLAST N A N A N A N A 2007 amp 2010 N ADon John N A N A N A N A UK Tour 2008 9 N AA Matter of Life and Death A Matter of Life and Death by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger National Theatre 9 N A N A May 2007 N ARapunzel N A Battersea Arts Centre N A N A UK and New York 2007 8 N ACymbeline N A Battersea Arts Centre N A N A UK and New York 2007 8 N ANights at the Circus N A Lyric Hammersmith and Bristol Old Vic N A N A 2005 N AThe Bacchae N A N A N A N A 2004 10 N AThe Wooden Frock N A N A N A N A 2003 4 Nominated for the TMA Award for Best Touring Production 2004The Company EditAlthough the company varied between productions there were a number of associate artists who were repeatedly involved with Kneehigh including Bec Applebee Performer Peer Gynt Ship of Fools Wind fall The Bogus Raven Heart Wagstaffe the Wind Up Boy Ghost Nets 1 and 2 Women who threw the Day away The Three Island Project The old Man with Enormous wings Anybody like Me Telling Tales The King of Prussia The Riot Pandora s Box The Red Shoes The Wooden frock RAA Simon Baker sound designer Brief Encounter Don John The Wild Bride Stu Barker performer composer amp musical director A Matter of Life and Death Tristan amp Yseult Cubeline Brief Encounter Nights at the Circus Rapunzel The Bacchae The Wooden Frock Pandora s Box The Red Shoes The Itch Roger Salmon Don John The Wild Bride Dominic Bilkey sound designer The Bacchae Tristan amp Yseult Cymbeline Rapunzel Jim Carey performer amp musical director The Riot Strange Cargo The King of Prussia Tregeagle Ship of Fools Peer Gynt Windfall Ting Tang Mine The Bogus Ravenheart The Lost Stories of Don Quixote The Arabian Nights Paul Crewes producer The Bacchae The Wooden Frock Cymbeline Rapunzel Don John The Wild Bride Gisli Orn Gardarsson performer A Matter of Life and Death Nights at the Circus Don John Carl Grose performer amp writer Performer The King of Prussia Strange Cargo Wagstaffe the Wind up Boy Chucky Vs Alien Nights at the Circus Cymbeline Blast Don John Hansel amp Gretel Writer Quicksilver Tristan amp Yseult The Bacchae Cymbeline Hansel amp Gretel The Wild Bride Craig Johnson performer Cry Wolf Quicksilver Skulduggery Tristan amp Yseult The Bacchae Cymbeline A Matter of Life and Death Blast Journey to the Centre of the Earth which he also directed Don John Hansel amp Gretel Amanda Lawrence performer The Wooden Frock Tristan amp Yseult Knights at the Circus Brief Encounter Dom Lawton performer amp musician A Matter of Life and Death Annabelle Lee Cymbeline Hanging Around Don John Robert Luckay performer The Bacchae Cymbeline Jack Morrison The Wooden Frock Wagstaffe the Wind up Boy The Bacchae Journey to the Centre of the Earth A Matter of Life and Death Cymbeline Rapunzel Blast Don John Tristan amp Yseult Anna Maria Murphy writer Tristan amp Yseult The Bacchae The Red Shoes Skulduggery Doubtful Island Ghost Nets Women Who Threw the Day Away Telling Tales Dave Mynne performer amp founder member Don John Emma Rice artistic director and performer The Red Shoes The Wooden Frock The Bacchae Tristan amp Yseult Nights at the Circus Cymbeline A Matter of Life and Death Rapunzel Brief Encounter Don John The Wild Bride Malcolm Rippeth lighting designer Brief Encounter Cymbeline Nights at the Circus The Bacchae Pandora s Box Don John The Wild Bride Ian Ross musician Brief Encounter Don John Hansel and Gretel The Red Shoes The Wild Bride Tristan and Yseult Midnights Pumpkin 946 Dead Dog in a Suitcase The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk Composer Hansel and Gretel Very Old man with Enormous wings the Flying Lovers of Vitebsk Mike Shepherd performer and founder The Red Shoes The Wooden Frock The Bacchae A Matter of Life and Death Cymbeline Rapunzel Blast Don John Tristan amp Yseult Tristan Sturrock performer Brief Encounter A Matter of Life and Death The Riot Tristan and Yseult The King of Prussia Tregeagle Ship of Fools Peer Gynt The Ashmaid Danger My Ally Windfall Don John Michael Vale designer Rapunzel Cymbeline Alex Wardle lighting designer Tristan amp Yseult Rapunzel The Wooden Frock The Riot The Red Shoes Mary Woodvine performer The Young Man of Cury Windfall King of Prussia The Riot Fishboy Skullduggery Don John Sarah Wright puppet designer director performer Wild Bride Dead Dog in a Suitcase 946 Tin Drum Brief Encounter Very Old Man With Enormous Wings References Edit Trueman Matt 18 September 2017 The church of the lost cause inside Kneehigh s wild Cornish home The Guardian Retrieved 21 December 2020 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link With sadness and regret the Trustees of Kneehigh are announcing the winding down of Kneehigh Theatre Kneehigh Theater Archived from the original on 3 June 2021 Retrieved 3 June 2021 Contributors Conference 09 Events The Theatres Trust theatrestrust org uk 2013 Retrieved 24 April 2013 Cornwall Tourism Awards visitcornwall com 2012 Retrieved 13 April 2015 How we began Wildworks www wildworks biz Archived from the original on 27 March 2009 Retrieved 11 April 2009 U K Hit Brief Encounter Opens A C T Season in San Francisco Sept 11 Playbill Playbill Retrieved 25 November 2017 Associate Artists Kneehigh Retrieved 13 May 2017 Laura Barnett Portrait of the artist Emma Rice artistic director The Guardian 29 May 2012 Clapp Susannah 6 May 2007 Sweet dreams are made of this The Observer Archived from the original on 25 May 2020 Retrieved 21 December 2020 The Stage Reviews The Bacchae www thestage co uk Archived from the original on 27 September 2007 Retrieved 11 May 2007 External links Edit Cornwall portalOfficial website Kneehigh Theatre in pictures from The Guardian Troupe therapy a Guardian article BBC interview with Emma Rice Artistic Director Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Kneehigh Theatre amp oldid 1119785371, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
