What is the style of Kneehigh?
a focus on storytelling for a wide audience, mostly through creative adaptations of novels, films, myths and folktales. often featuring live music, song, puppetry, dance and film, with a high energy and a playful style.
What are Kneehigh Theatre company known for?
Renowned for their sense of life, Kneehigh’s productions, often staged outdoors, would mix knockabout comedy with runaway romance. Many were based around mythological tales, such as the Cornish legend of Tristan and Yseult, the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale The Red Shoes, or Greek tragedy The Bacchae.
Who founded Kneehigh?
Mike Shepherd
Kneehigh Theatre/Founders
Mike Shepherd has an illustrious and varied career as a performer, director and as founder of the magnificent Kneehigh Theatre Company.
Where do Kneehigh rehearse?
Kneehigh performs almost anywhere- in village halls, quarries, marquees, cliff-tops, up trees and on conventional stages-and have toured around the world with several performances.
Who is artistic director of Kneehigh?
Mike is an actor, director, teacher and the artistic director of Kneehigh. He started Kneehigh in 1980 and has worked almost exclusively for the company ever since.
Who founded headlong Theatre?
The Headlong Origins Directors for 2020 – 2021 are Gitika Buttoo, Julia Head, Jack Nurse and Sita Thomas. You can read more on all the Origins Directors below.
What is the history of the Kneehigh Theatre?
Kneehigh was founded as a company in 1980. It was the tail-end of the Theatre in Education trend started in the sixties. I think Mike would reject the label of Kneehigh being a TIE company but their work inevitably came into contact with people who practised that way of working.
Where can I find Kneehigh’s online resources?
Do use the Kneehigh Cookbook and their Vimeo site for more free online digital resources from the company. In addition there is a fifteen minute audio clip of Emma Rice ‘On Directing’ that I believe captures the spirit of how Kneehigh currently work.
What is it like to work with Kneehigh?
DR: The first thing that people who have worked with Kneehigh remember about the experience is working in the barns and the local landscape. It’s very much in the narrative when they talk about their work.
What is the Kneehigh interview about?
The interview provides an introduction to the company and an academic’s outside eye on Kneehigh as a devising ensemble. Corrections have been made to this interview – Nick Darke has been properly credited as the writer of the King of Prussia.