Mike Shepherd

Wise Children Reveals New Season Including Emma Rice's Adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST

With their co-production with the RSC of The Buddha of Suburbia about to transfer to the Barbican, Wise Children has announced their forthcoming season of work, which includes Artistic Director Emma Rice's brand-new adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, which she also directs. Learn more about the full season here!

Cornwall's Beloved Kneehigh Theatre Company Returns Online

A grant from thespace.org has ensured that Falmouth University is able to preserve over 1,500 photographs, interviews, designs, programmes, footage and posters from Cornwall's beloved Kneehigh Theatre Company. This is part of a new initiative to create a living and digital archive of materials from Kneehigh's forty years as a leading theatre company in the UK.

VIDEO: Renell Shaw Releases New Video of 'The Vision They Had (From The Windrush Suite)'

Renell Shaw, composer, songwriter and Associate Artist of Hackney Empire, today releases a new video to accompany his Ivor Novello award-winning composition THE VISION THEY HAD (FROM THE WINDRUSH SUITE).

Kneehigh Presents CLOG DANCING IN GWEEK

2020 was Kneehigh’s 40th year and they had planned to celebrate in style, but then the pandemic struck and their plans were scuppered. But, not to be deterred, they’re throwing a livestream bash on Saturday 30th January 2021, inviting audiences to their rehearsal base and spiritual home in Cornwall, The Barns.

THE FLYING LOVERS OF VITEBSK Extends Livestream

Bristol will be going into Tier 3 when lockdown ends on Wednesday, which means there will be no live audience watching Wise Children broadcast Kneehigh's The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk from Bristol Old Vic at the end of this week

Casting Announced For the Digital Tour of THE FLYING LOVERS OF VITEBSK

Wise Children, Kneehigh and Bristol Old Vic, announce dates for the digital tour of Daniel Jamieson's The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk directed by Emma Rice. The production will feature Marc Antolin (Marc Chagall) and Audrey Brisson (Bella Chagall), reprising their roles from the original production.

Wise Children Continue To Live Broadcast With The Announcement Of A Revival Of THE FLYING LOVERS OF VITEBSK

Following the success of the live broadcast of Romantics Anonymous, watched by more than 20,000 people worldwide, Wise Children today announce their plan to offer live broadcast events as part of all future programming. The online format that they trailblazed for Romantics Anonymous was so successful that the company believe they will continue working in this way, long into the future.

WISE CHILDREN Comes To BBC iPlayer Today

Wise Children today announce that Angela Carter's Wise Children, their critically-acclaimed co-production with The Old Vic, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Oxford Playhouse and York Theatre Royal, adapted and directed by Emma Rice, will be available to stream on BBC iPlayer from this weekend for 3 months as part of the BBC's Culture in Quarantine programme. It will also air on BBC 4 in May 2020 a?" date to be announced.

Acorn TV Announces 2020 Lineup

AMC Networks' Acorn TV - North America's largest streamer devoted to British and international television - has announced a stellar 2020 lineup, consisting of five commissioned Acorn TV Originals. As the largest streamer devoted to a specialized audience, Acorn TV is the ultimate destination of high-quality, world class dramas, mysteries and comedies from all sides of the pond.

Bristol Old Vic Announces Full 2020 Programme 'Year Of Artists' Headlined By Mark Rylance

Bristol Old Vic today launched its 2020 programme of work, Year of Artists a?" shining a spotlight on the role of artists in a changing world, and celebrating creativity in us all. Work from some of the most incredible talent in British theatre today (from Emma Rice, Sally Cookson, Joel Horwood and Maria Aberg) sits alongside dazzling new writers and artists (such as Ross Willis and Miranda Cromwell) and opportunities for everyone from across the region, regardless of age, experience or background, to get creatively involved.

Full Tour Dates Announced For Kneehigh's UBU! A SINGALONG SATIRE

Full tour dates are announced for Kneehigh's phantasmagorical and savagely funny Ubu! A Singalong Satire. As previously announced, the show will play at London's Shoreditch Town Hall in December as the perfect alternative Christmas show. It will then embark on a mini UK tour; travelling to Bristol Marble Factory, The Lowry, Salford and Leeds Playhouse.

KNEEHIGH'S UBU Comes to Shoreditch Town Hall

We all know an Ubu. Impossibly greedy, unstoppably crude, inexorably hell-bent on making our country great again! Sound familiar?

Emma Rice's Production Of WISE CHILDREN Will Be Screened In Cinemas Across UK And Ireland

More2Screen today announces the cinema release of the critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Angela Carter's Wise Children which will be screened in more than 250 cinemas across the UK and Ireland from 3 October 2019. Directed and adapted for the stage by Emma Rice, the production is the first from her new company Wise Children. Cinema tickets are on sale now at WiseChildrenCinema.com

BWW Review: DEAD DOG IN A SUITCASE (AND OTHER LOVE SONGS), Nuffield Southampton Theatres

Opera isn't dead. In fact, it's alive and kicking off thanks to Kneehigh's reimagining of John Gay's The Beggars Opera, which takes on the new and riotous form of Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs).

ZOG Comes to the Darlington Hippodrome

Freckle Productions have announced the world premiere stage adaptation of Zog, based on the book by Julia Donaldson with illustrations by Axel Scheffler, will be flying into Darlington Hippodrome on Friday 17 May to Sunday 19 May on its first ever UK Tour.

Family Favourite ZOG Comes To Life At The Pavilion Theatre

Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's much-loved Zog comes to life at Worthing's Pavilion Theatre from Friday 14 to Sunday 16 June. Large in size, and keen in nature, Zog is so eager to win a golden star at Madam Dragon's school, where dragons learn all the things that dragons need to know. Zog tries so very hard, perhaps too hard, and he bumps, burns and roars his way through years one, two and three.

Julia Donaldson's ZOG Flies Into London This Summer At Cadogan Hall

Freckle Productions and Rose Theatre Kingston have announced that Zog, based on the book by Julia Donaldson with illustrations by Axel Scheffler, will fly into London this Summer. Following its current world premiere UK Tour, Zog will play a limited 4-week run at Cadogan Hall from Wednesday 31 July to Sunday 25 August 2019. Tickets are on sale now.

WISE CHILDREN Begins at Storyhouse Next Week

The new theatrical production of novelist Angela Carter's Wise Children comes to Storyhouse next week.

Watch the Show Trailer For DEAD DOG IN A SUITCASE (AND OTHER LOVE SONGS)

Mayor Goodman has been assassinated. And so has his dog. Contract killer Macheath has just married Pretty Polly Peachum and Mr and Mrs Peachum aren't happy. Not one bit.

Kneehigh Announce New Executive Director And New Chair Of The Trustees

On International Women's Day, Kneehigh is has announced the appointment of Michelle Carwardine-Palmer as the company's new Executive Director who will take up the position in April. The company is also announcing that Hedda Archbold will succeed Professor Alan Livingston as Chair of Trustees with immediate effect.