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Cymbeline
Photograph Steve Tanner
kneehigh theatre

Devised theatre, Physical/visual theatre, New writing

SIZE OF COMPANY
8–20 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Middle-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Emma Rice

Company Director
Mike Shepherd

Producer
Paul Crewes

General Manager
Jackie McNerney

ARTISTIC POLICY
Kneehigh now finds itself celebrated as one of Britain’s most exciting theatre companies. For over twenty-five years the company has created vigorous, popular and challenging theatre for audiences throughout the UK and beyond. Using a multi-talented team of performers, directors, designers, sculptors, administrators, engineers, musicians and writers, Kneehigh performs with the joyful anarchy that audiences have come to expect from a groundbreaking theatre company.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
'The truly great theatre companies stand out by their ability to be distinctively themselves and yet make a succession of shows that are distinctively different. After an astonishing few years of creative frenzy, Kneehigh joins those ranks.' The Guardian

'A glorious romp, swift, funny, cheeky and inventive... This is Kneehigh at its best: don’t miss it if the tour comes anywhere near you.' The Sunday Times

'It whispers directly to the heart… a joyous naughtiness that is quite impossible to resist.' The Guardian (The Bacchae)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Cymbeline Commissioned as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works festival in 2006, Kneehigh interprets Shakespeare for the first time. This imaginative new staging of Cymbeline will fizz with anarchy, humour and eclectic musicality. (140 mins approx., 14 on the road)

Rapunzel A co-production with Battersea Arts Centre, written by Annie Siddons. With characteristic fun, puppetry, music and animation, Kneehigh and BAC create a truly special folktale of loveable rogues, magic pigs, evil brothers and, of course, enduring love.

The Bacchae Sensuous and anarchic tale of curiosity and control, invasion and rage. Co-production with West Yorkshire Playhouse, Lyric Hammersmith, Bristol Old Vic and Hall for Cornwall. (105 mins approx., 14 on the road)

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Matter of Life and Death

WRAP-AROUND ACTIVITY
Education workshops available for all productions, which can be adapted to suit individual needs and skills levels.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2006 Australia, New Zealand, USA (Tristan & Yseult)

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Details on request.