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Kneehigh

November 2021

  • A scene from Sunday In The Park With George

    Paint the stage red: plays about artists – in pictures

    As the Young Vic announces it will premiere The Collaboration, Anthony McCarten’s play about Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, look back at shows about Picasso, Kahlo, Dalí and other great artists

June 2021

  • ‘Porous roles’ … Lyndsey Marshal, Tristan Sturrock and Gisli Orn Garddarsson in A Matter Of Life And Death, at the National theatre in 2007.

    ‘It was like running away with the circus’ – the thrills, shocks and genius of Kneehigh

    As the legendary Cornwall-based theatre company closes, the people who made its astonishing productions look back on four decades of mayhem and innovation
  • The Kneehigh Theatre Company performing near old mining works in the Tamar Valley

    Matters of life and death: Kneehigh theatre’s wild times – in pictures

    The award-winning Kneehigh theatre company has announced it is closing down. Revisit its past hits including Rapunzel, A Matter of Life and Death and The Tin Drum
  • Kneehigh’s The King Of Prussia, which was staged in 1996

    Kneehigh theatre to close after ‘changes in artistic leadership’

    Award-winning company based in Cornwall was known for its innovative and colourful shows

December 2019

  • Plenty of potential ... Joseph Tweedale as Patrizio and Samantha Sutherland as Rapunzel.

    Rapunzel review – tangled tale of a bad hair day

  • Kneehigh’s Ubu! at Shoreditch Town Hall, London.

    Kneehigh's Ubu! A Singalong Satire review – karaoke hell

December 2018

  • Clockwise from top left: Memoirs of an Asian Football Casual, Girls and Boys, Black Men Walking and I’m a Phoenix, Bitch

    Readers' favourite theatre of 2018

    From rapping and rambling to Victorian female boxers, via Liverpool’s Dream, Asian football casuals and a teenage dance troupe, here are some of our readers’ top shows of the year

October 2017

  • The Tin Drum at Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse

    The Tin Drum review – a banging hit

  • The Tin Drum at Liverpool Everyman

    The Tin Drum review – Kneehigh turn Grass's fable into chaotic cabaret

September 2017

  • The Tin Drum - rehearsals - press publicity image Credit: Steve Tanner

    'The church of the lost cause': inside Kneehigh's wild Cornish home

  • Rocío Molina, Lin-Manuel Miranda in Hamilton and Simon Amstell

    Autumn arts preview 2017
    Angels and demons: the unmissable theatre, comedy and dance of autumn 2017

October 2016

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream performed at Shakespeare's Globe

    Emma Rice’s Globe: Shakespeare’s work as you like it, or a comedy of errors?

  • Emma Rice, the Artistic Director of the Globe Theatre

    Emma Rice to step down as artistic director at Shakespeare's Globe

August 2016

  • Katy Owen in 946 The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tip

    946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips review – carnival and tragedy

    Emma Rice’s Kneehigh musical adapatation of Michael Morpurgo’s D-day tale makes a serious point

July 2016

  • The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk

    The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk review – a breathless soaring

    Kneehigh’s captivating production is both playful and sombre as it conjures up the Chagalls’ intense relationship

June 2016

  • The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk

    The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk review – Kneehigh and Chagall make a fine marriage

    Emma Rice’s final Kneehigh show is a love letter to the company she founded as much as a celebration of Marc and Bella Chagall and their lost Russian-Jewish world

May 2016

  • Marc Chagall’s Birthday, 1915

    Head over heels in love: Marc and Bella Chagall's spectacular romance

    There are few more vivid evocations of how it feels to fall for someone than in Chagall’s ecstatic paintings of his wife. As Kneehigh’s production about the pair opens at Bristol Old Vic, Daniel Jamieson retraces the couple’s story

January 2016

  • Emma Rice, the new Artistic Director of the Globe Theatre. She takes up her new position on April 23rd 2015 straight after her predesessor Dominic Dromgoole steps down. NO EMBARGO

    The Globe's Emma Rice: 'If anybody bended gender it was Shakespeare'

  • Emma Rice

    Emma Rice introduces her first season at Shakespeare's Globe – video

December 2015

  • Lia Williams and Angus Wright in Oresteia by Aeschylus at the Almeida.

    Best culture 2015
    Lyn Gardner's top 10 theatre of 2015

    The Almeida’s enthralling Oresteia is singled out by Lyn Gardner who, in no set order, chooses her other essential productions of the year
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