TRISTAN & YSEULT ( ISOLDE ) & plays from Kneehigh Theatre (Red Shoes etc) NEW

Description: A NEW, UNREAD COPY OF TRISTAN & YSEULT (plays from the Kneehigh Theatre) Contents: TRISTAN & YSEULT / THE BACCHAE / THE WOODEN FROCK / THE RED SHOES Plays from the wonderfully innovative Kneehigh Theatre Company Kneehigh is artist-led and takes the conditions of creativity seriously. It has a sense of family, looks to challenge and entertain, and balances freedom of expression with rigorous craft.Kneehigh is political and creates theatre of humanity on an epic and tiny scale. Based in Cornwall in breath-taking barns on the south coast, Kneehigh looks to the world for inspiration and tells stories that reflect the world.Kneehigh defies expectation and breaks the rules. It celebrates non theatre going audiences and unconventional spaces, embraces inclusivity, and believes in a sense of event.A brief history of KneehighFrom our home in Cornwall, Kneehigh have built a reputation for creating vigorous and popular theatre for audiences throughout the UK and beyond. In Cornwall, 1980, a village school teacher began to run theatre workshops in his spare time. In due course a mixture of people became involved, a farmer, the sign writer from Tesco, several students, a thrash guitarist from a local band, an electrician. No actors…nobody who had been trained. The workshops took place in the spirit of cheerful anarchy and casually slipped into performance, and finally the production of shows.We created theatre for families in locations within their communities, village halls, marquees, harbour sides…and less conventional places. We created theatre on cliff-tops, in preaching pits and quarries, amongst gunpowder works and arsenic wastes, up trees, down holes, where the river meets the sea and where woodland footpaths end.Proudly, we now find ourselves celebrated as one of Britain’s most exciting touring theatre companies. We create vigorous, popular theatre for a broad spectrum of audiences, using a multi-talented group of performers, directors, designers, sculptors, engineers, musicians and writers. We use a wide range of art forms and media as our ‘tool kit’ to make new and accessible forms of theatre. A spontaneous sense of risk and adventure produces extraordinary dramatic results. Themes are universal and local, epic and domestic.Cornwall is our physical and spiritual home. We draw inspiration from the landscapes, history, people and culture.Our rehearsal base is a National Trust barn on the cliffs near Mevagissey and our office is in Truro, the administrative centre of Cornwall. We take pride in our Cornish identity, and seek to inspire ‘pride of place’ in our Cornish audiences. Cornwall has a long and lively history of international trade and cultural exchange. For a county so distant from the capital, it boasts remarkably cosmopolitan and global influences and culture. We are proud to be an active part of this tradition.Kneehigh was started in 1980 by Mike Shepherd . Early productions were performed in village halls, marquees, cliff-tops and quarries. Their productions are often based around mythological tales such as the fairy-tale THE RED SHOES, THE BACCHAE and the Cornish legend TRISTAN & YSEULT. Their artistic director Emma Rice won Best Director 2002, Barclays Theatre Awards.[1]Their productions have been performed outside in locations such as Restormel Castle, the Mincack theatre and the Eden Project as well as their award-winning[2]Asylum Season. They use 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 Theatre. However, feeling that Kneehigh was pulling in 2 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.[3]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.[4]St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, and the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.Since then, Kneehigh have taken their work to the USA, Australia, New Zealand, China and Syria and other countries whilst continuing to tour work in the UK and presenting shows at the National Theatre of Great Britain. They are an associate company of Bristol Old Vic and Shakespeare's Globe in London.Simon Harvey is resident Associate Director.

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