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| Kneehigh Theatre |
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Ghost Nets
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Practices
theatre company, landscape theatre, performance, physical theatre, storytelling, mime, celebrations, spectacles, combined arts, Local Distinctiveness, site-specific drama
Audiences: family, general Places
theatres, community centres, arts centres, festivals, heritage sites, coastal areas, post-industrial sites, forestry areas, gardens, Cornwall, regional, international Recent Themes
environmental effects of tourism, pollution, water pollution, poverty, global economic inequality, sense of place, post-industrialisation, culture and nature, local history
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From our home in Cornwall, Kneehigh have built a reputation for creating vigorous and popular theatre for audiences throughout the UK and beyond. We create theatre for families in locations within their communities, village halls, marquees, harbour sides...and less conventional places. We create 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. 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.
Cornwall is our physical and spiritual home. We seek to inspire ‘pride of place' in our Cornish audiences. Emma Rice, Mike Shepherd, joint Artistic Directors
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Productions and Projects
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HEVVA !
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1999
Throughout the summer of 1999, Kneehigh embarked on a series of arts adventures across Cornwall to create spectacular outdoor events in the stunning Cornish landscape. HEVVA! loosely translates as "The pilchards are back!" shouted by the huer, whose cry brings the whole town to life.
> ARK - Midsummer Bonfire, Carn Marth Quarry, Lanner
Volunteers and locals worked with Kneehigh to celebrate Midsummer solstice with a fire and water spectacular event with a theme of regeneration. The Ark, washed into the next Millennium with a menagerie of creatures aboard, beached in a quarry and ended its journey in a fiery inferno. Animated by Los Trios Ritmos, Bagattack and a startling community choir. > Mevagissey Feast Raft Race - Mevagissey Quay
Kneehigh resurrected a local community event. A watery challenge where the stakes are high and competition fierce, where Mad Max meets Waterworld in Mevagissey Harbour. > Mannel's Mango - Hendra Pit, Nanpean
A theatre spectacle in the extraordinary China Clay Landscape with volunteers and young people from the surrounding area, celebrating Cornwall's global connections and her resourceful people. Mannel returns from across the sea to find his village is dying, its Carnival Queen faded and starving. With a kiss, all that is wrong is right, the Queen walks on water back from the other side, and it is carnival time!
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The Women Who Threw the Day Away
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1997
Site specific landscape theatre on the tinners coast which has, until recently, been mined since the bronze age and is now silent. Stunning cliff face where the weather rages and did for nearly every performance. The story dealt with the consequences of tampering with nature and was a homage to the people who had given their lives to the workings of the mine. The last working mine in Cornwall closed during the production. The audiences, undeterred by rain, fog and wind, clung to the cliff edge and were moved by the miner brought to life from underground. We worked with volunteers and further developed the training potential of this work.
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More About
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We assisted the transference of the use of a quarry into an amphitheatre. The photograph above is of Kneehigh's production Ghost Nets 1996. Photographer: Simon Burt.
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