KNEEHIGH THEATRE COMPANY   (1980 - )


To add a picture of  Kneehigh Theatre Company to this page, click on Contact Us, above
   Nationality:
English
   Literary Agent: *:
n/a
   Email:
   Website:

* If shown, click on the literary agent's name for full contact details and links to all the Playwrights they represent.

Plays by Kneehigh Theatre Company

-
Bacchae, The
1st Produced:
Leeds, WYP Courtyard
2004
Company:
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
Off Beat Pantomime
-
Parts:
Male
7
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Euripides. Version by Carl Grose, Anna Maria Murphy, Emma Rice and Kneehigh Theatre
Synopsis: a fun production of The Bacchae with dire warnings about the dangers of binge drinking
Top of Page
-
Brief Encounter
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
7
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: adaptation by Emma Rice from the play Still Life and screenplay by Noel Coward
Synopsis: Love is in the air! The forbidden passions of Brief Encounter have been refreshingly restaged by Kneehigh Theatre in this glorious new production, which will give you a great reason to fall in love with theatre all over again. "I want to remember every minute. Always. Always to the end of my days" Set in the 1930s, a chance encounter at a railway station changes the lives of two people forever. When kind handsome doctor Alec removes a small piece of grit from the eye of wife and mother Laura, they embark on an illicit romance that is doomed to be thwarted by convention.
Top of Page
-
Cry Wolf
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
Off Beat Pantomime
-
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
musicians
Notes: -
Synopsis: The remenants of a family are on the move and on the edge. They set up camp, but the wolves are at the door&Bizarre, irreverant and magic, the menacing world of the fairytale is celebrated with a journey into the wilds of the woods and a plunge into the perils of the sea.
Top of Page
-
Cymbeline
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
1st Published:
2007
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
6
Female
3
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: adapted by Emma Rice; written by Carl Grose
Synopsis: Twenty years after his two sons disappeared, King Cymbeline's only daughter Imogen plans to marry against his wishes. Enraged, Cymbeline banishes her childhood sweetheart Posthumus from court. He flees to Italy and makes a wager he'll soon regret. Cymbeline's new queen plots with her ghastly son Cloten. Emperor Caesar is on the war-path. And poor Joan (who's just got back from the Costa de Sol) hasn't got a clue what's going on! Kneehigh turn their unique storytelling style to one of Shakespeare's least performed plays. In a script packed with heart-stopping poetry and characteristic charm, their irreverent adaptation plays fast and loose with the Bard. The result is a wild, giddy and elemental adventure that swings from tragedy to comedy and back again. Never has confusion been such fun!
Top of Page
-
Don Juan
1st Produced:
-
2009
Company:
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: England, 1976. The Winter of Discontent. Cold hearts seek comfort and poor souls look for love. A woman nurses her dying father; a cleaner greedily devours her Open University course in the fight for a better life; a career woman seeks the path that her life never took, and the loyal friend, always in the shadows, fears he will disappear one day and no-one will notice. We are in the lonely hearts column of life. 'Save me' is the silent call that drifts from their aching bodies. But wait. Help is at hand. Don John is here! Dangerous, naughty and irresistible, Don John is a vessel for all our desires - a delicious chancer. He enters our lives and leaves us changed. Oh yes, he leaves us, for Don John belongs to nobody but himself and The Devil! With a sensational score of specially commissioned music, Kneehigh bring their renowned brand of physical storytelling to this sexy tale.
Top of Page
-
Doubtful Island
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written by Anna Maria Murphy and Kneehigh Theatre
Synopsis: -
Top of Page
-
Ghost Nets
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written by Anna Maria Murphy and Kneehigh Theatre
Synopsis: -
Top of Page
-
King Of Prussia, the
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
Top of Page
-
Matter Of Life And Death, A
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
1st Published:
2007
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written by Tom Morris and Emma Rice
Synopsis: It is 1945. A young airman jumps to certain death from his burning aircraft. Following an angelic blunder, caused by a classic English pea-souper. Peter Carter miraculously survives and finds June in the flesh. But things are not so simple. To stay alive, Peter is forced to take himself, and the heavenlv authorities, to the Universal Court of Appeal.
Top of Page
-
Pandora's Box
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
Top of Page
-
Quick Silver
1st Produced:
Mevagissey Jubilee Hall, England
2002
Company:
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
Cornish Western Pantomime
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written by Carl Grose and Kneehigh Theatre
Synopsis: the most rootin-tootin, high-falutin, whiskey drinkin' pasty-crimping' guns-ablazing' ocean-leaping comedy adventure about a Cornish miner in the Wild West
Top of Page
-
Rapunzel, or, The magic Pig
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
1st Published:
2006
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes: written by Annie Siddons
Synopsis: After a happy childhood picking herbs, making potions, healing the sick and helping the local villagers, Rapunzel grows into a beautiful young woman - and suddenly finds herself locked in a tower. But this is Rapunzel as you've never seen her before - tough, sassy, a survivor, a lover, a fighter - and life has a whole lot more in store for her yet. . .Set in Italy, the home of this ancient folk tale, 'Rapunzel' or 'The Magic Pig' is a lively, funny, passionate story of abandonment and loyalty, love and betrayal, complete with mafia bosses, magic bushes, evil princes and a wonderfully helpful pig.
Top of Page
-
Red Shoes, The
1st Produced:
STERTS, Liskeard, Cornwall
2000
Company:
1st Published:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes: adapted by Anna Maria Murphy, Emma Rice and Kneehigh Theatre from Hans Christian Anderson
Synopsis: "One dance was not enough for our heroine, The Girl and one poem was not enough for me. As I wrote they danced their way out onto the page."
Anna Maria Murphy
Top of Page
-
Skulduggery
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written by Anna Maria Murphy and Kneehigh Theatre
Synopsis: -
Top of Page
-
Telling Tales
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written by Anna Maria Murphy and Kneehigh Theatre
Synopsis: -
Top of Page
-
Tristan And Yseult
1st Produced:
Restormel Castle, Lostwithiel, Cornwall
2003
Company:
1st Published:
2005
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
Devised
Piece
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
musicians 7 chorus
Notes: written by Carl Grose, Anna Maria Murphy, Emma Rice and Kneehigh Theatre
Synopsis: a tale of extra marital ardour about the unloved as well. Harks back to the earliest, oral versions of an ancient Cornish story.
Top of Page
-
Wagstaffe The Wind-Up Boy
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written by Carl Grose, Mike Shepherd and Kneehigh Theatre
Synopsis: -
Top of Page
-
Wild Bride (The Shamans)
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written by Anna Maria Murphy and Kneehigh Theatre
Synopsis: -
Top of Page
-
Women Who Threw The Day Away
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written by Anna Maria Murphy and Kneehigh Theatre
Synopsis: -
Top of Page
-
Wooden Frock, The
1st Produced:
Leeds WYP Courtyard
2003
Company:
1st Published:
2005
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes: adapted by Tom Morris, Emma Rice and Kneehigh Theatre from original sources
Synopsis: instead of a slipper, there is a ring - a far more potent sexual symbol.
Top of Page