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Sep 1, 2024 · Kneehigh Theatre's legacy: Still kicking. Kneehigh Theatre Company closed in 2021, but its work, style and impact on performance can still be felt today. With many exam boards using Kneehigh as a chosen practitioner, John Johnson explores how we can still learn from its practice.
Digital Archive. From set designs and interviews to programmes and recordings, we’ve everything to satisfy the ardent researcher or Kneehigh superfan. Start Discovering. Kneehigh’s Shows. Featured Show: Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs) Kneehigh’s version of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera was a hit with both critics and audiences alike.
While previous plans to mark Kneehigh’s 40 th anniversary were paused, the Company instead responded by creating 40 Random Acts of Art (2021): innovative pop-up theatre energetically performed, in a socially distanced manner, in communities across Kneehighs’ ancestral home of St Austell Bay.
Apr 17, 2023 · Following Kneehigh's closure in 2021, a special project was launched to ensure that the internationally renowned company's cultural and educational legacy was preserved for future generations.
- Stephi Wild
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.
Cornwall’s beloved Kneehigh Theatre Company was closed in June 2021, after 40 years, following the departure of its founder and artistic director Mike Shepherd.
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Mar 4, 2019 · Full cast and UK tour dates are announced for Kneehigh’s trail-blazing and much celebrated Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs). The production will tour to Nuffield, Southampton, Brighton Festival, Oxford Playhouse before opening to press at the Lyric Hammersmith for a 4-week run.