From its home in Cornwall, Kneehigh Theatre has built a reputation for creating vigorous and popular theatre for audiences throughout the UK and beyond. The workshops took place in the spirit of cheerful anarchy and casually slipped into performance, and finally the production of shows. They 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. A spontaneous sense of risk and adventure produces extraordinary dramatic results.
Themes are universal and local, epic and domestic.
Each year we commission new writing and devise and produce large scale outdoor and indoor international tours, small scale village tours, land and sea site specific theatre, installations and events. To be truly universal, you must be truly local.