KNEEHIGH THEATRE COMPANY (1980 - )
| Nationality: | English |
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Plays by Kneehigh Theatre Company
Bacchae, The |
| 1st Produced: | Leeds, WYP Courtyard | 2004 | ||
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| 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 | ||||
Brief Encounter |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
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| 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 |
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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. | ||||
Cry Wolf |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||
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| 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 | |||
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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. | ||||
Cymbeline |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
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| 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! | ||||
Doubtful Island |
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| 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 | |||
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Notes: written by Anna Maria Murphy and Kneehigh Theatre | ||||
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Ghost Nets |
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| 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 | |||
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Notes: written by Anna Maria Murphy and Kneehigh Theatre | ||||
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King Of Prussia, the |
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| 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 | |||
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Matter Of Life And Death, A |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
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| 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 | - |
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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. | ||||
Pandora's Box |
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| 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 | |||
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Quick Silver |
| 1st Produced: | Mevagissey Jubilee Hall, England | 2002 | ||
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| 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 | - |
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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 | ||||
Rapunzel, or, The magic Pig |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
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| 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. | ||||
Red Shoes, The |
| 1st Produced: | STERTS, Liskeard, Cornwall | 2000 | ||
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| 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 | ||||
Skulduggery |
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| 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 | - |
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Notes: written by Anna Maria Murphy and Kneehigh Theatre | ||||
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Telling Tales |
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| 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 | - |
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Notes: written by Anna Maria Murphy and Kneehigh Theatre | ||||
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Tristan And Yseult |
| 1st Produced: | Restormel Castle, Lostwithiel, Cornwall | 2003 | ||
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| 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. | ||||
Wagstaffe The Wind-Up Boy |
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| 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 | - |
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Notes: written by Carl Grose, Mike Shepherd and Kneehigh Theatre | ||||
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Wild Bride (The Shamans) |
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| 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 | - |
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Notes: written by Anna Maria Murphy and Kneehigh Theatre | ||||
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Women Who Threw The Day Away |
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| 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 | - |
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Notes: written by Anna Maria Murphy and Kneehigh Theatre | ||||
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Wooden Frock, The |
| 1st Produced: | Leeds WYP Courtyard | 2003 | ||
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| 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. | ||||