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Troupe therapy: How Kneehigh make such exciting theatre

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/77486?ns=guardianpageName=Stage%3A+Troupe+therapych=Stagec3=The+Guardianc4=Theatre%2CStage%2CCulture+sectionc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CTheatrec6=Maddy+Costac7=2008_12_01c8=1126617c9=articlec10=GUc11=Stagec12=Theatrec13=c14=h2=GU%2FStage%2FTheatre" width="1" height="1" //divpAt the top of a cliff on the south coast of Cornwall, a group of men and women whose ages range from early 20s to late 50s are taking advantage of their isolation to play some peculiar, wordless games. Standing in a circle, they vigorously rub the limbs of the person in front of them. Then a round of what looks like tag commences, only no one touches anyone until a signal is given, at which point people randomly leap into the nearest pair of arms, or drop their weight against an unsuspecting torso. Finally, they pair up to massage each other, their grunts and sighs witnessed only by a herd of organic cows grazing in the adjacent field./ppIt sounds like the ritual of some hippy cult; in fact, this is theatre rehearsing, Kneehigh-style. Over the past few years, Kneehigh has come to be ranked among Britain's most enterprising, idiosyncratic companies. It has presented work at the National Theatre and created a bold rewrite of Cymbeline for the RSC. This year, it became a dominant force in the West End with its mischievous adaptation of Noel Coward's Brief Encounter, which recently closed after a nine-month run. Next week, it returns to the RSC with Don John, which transposes Mozart's Don Giovanni to the era of punk and disco. Artistic director Emma Rice has long been fascinated by the lothario Don Juan. In her romantic version, however, it is the women he seduces who will be the stars of the show./ppThe company has been through several incarnations since it was founded, as a children's theatre troupe, by Mike Shepherd and a gaggle of friends in 1980. It has performed work everywhere from village halls to castles, disused quarries to conventional stages. Yet this present phase, under Rice, is proving to be its most successful. Critics don't always enjoy the roguishness and rough edges of the shows - scathing reviews of A Matter of Life and Death led the National's director, Nicholas Hytner, to dub several critics "dead white men" - but audiences do. And while Kneehigh's rise in status isn't something Shepherd planned, it doesn't surprise him. "People like to think of us as a parochial company, just working within our community in Cornwall," he says. "But we're too ambitious for that. We want to travel the world."/ppAt the same time, everyone involved in the company believes its Cornish identity is crucial. "Cornwall is a place where you can make things happen," says Shepherd. "It's to do with freedom." It's the freedom, thinks Rice, felt by people "on the outskirts", to create an alternative universe, off and on the stage./ppAlthough its administrative office is in Truro, the heart of Kneehigh is in the tiny village of Gorran Haven, where Shepherd grew up and returned after a fruitless attempt to act in London; Nottingham-raised Rice has lived there since 2000. Here, at the end of a winding lane, the company rents a huddle of barns from the National Trust. Shepherd calls the Lamledra barns "a secret, special place where we can seed ideas". The company doesn't work here full time, but almost all its shows start life here, with the cast and creative team assembling for an intense fortnight of devising. Recently renovated, they house a rehearsal room, a music studio packed with ancient brass instruments, and workshops for prop-making and set-building. But the central space is a big, homely kitchen, decorated with fairy lights and bunting, and, at one end, a blood-red wall with key words stencilled on it: generosity, wonder, irreverence, anarchy, naughtiness. These words are the Kneehigh manifesto in a nutshell./ppEvery day during rehearsals, the company gathers in the kitchen to eat lunch and dinner together. It's like a cheerful family party, with 41-year-old Rice playing not the matriarch but the elder sister aware that someone needs to exercise a modicum of responsibility. Rice first came to Kneehigh as an actor in 1994, and experienced "love at first sight, love at first sense". The barns and the rural surroundings reminded her of the inspirational period she had spent in Poland in her early 20s, training with the influential Gardzienice theatre association. But whereas there she had experienced "a very harsh environment that was a lot about struggle and discovering beauty through pain", at Kneehigh the emphasis was on "joy". "They were like Gypsies: this wild group of people who had rich lives and lit fires and played instruments and made each other laugh. Everything was really sexy."/ppRice had no plans to direct, but that didn't stop her telling Shepherd and his co-artistic director, Bill Mitchell, what they should be doing. "She was so bossy," chuckles Shepherd. "It became really apparent that she should be directing. She was full of ideas, wanting to create the world on stage." Her first production, 2001's The Red Shoes, was so successful that she was given further opportunities; in 2004, she took over the company./ppSince then, Rice has maintained Kneehigh's impish ethos while raising its game. Dave Mynne, another founder member and who is appearing in Don John, recalls: "We used to joke about the 'Kneehigh school of pointing, shouting and running': if in doubt, fill the space and make a noise. Emma has added a lot of the elements that we always wanted to have there: the darkness, the stillness." Shepherd thinks that he, Mitchell and their associate playwright, Nick Darke, were content to think that something was "a good idea". "Whereas there's something about the way Emma has to tell a story that is personal to her, and invests a show with more meaning." /ppRice admits that there is "a huge amount" of herself in each show. The Red Shoes, for instance, "was about my broken marriage, and my own independence". And she recently realised that she is setting Don John in 1978 because "it's about loss of innocence, and that's when I had my first major bereavement in life: my best friend, who died of leukaemia"./ppOne thing that hasn't changed under Rice is Kneehigh's ensemble spirit. It's partly instilled by the morning ritual of jogging and playing games in the fields overlooking a shimmering sea that surround the barns. It's further fostered by the responsibility everyone shares for the upkeep of the barns: tidying up after meals, keeping the fire burning in the rehearsal room stove. But it also relies on the right actors being brought into the company in the first place. "We don't do very well with proper actors," says Rice. "The people that suit us are a little bit what I call left-handed." Whenever they've tried to work with "conventional actors", says Shepherd, "it's much more neurotic"./ppThe Don John cast is typical: aside from Mynne, who trained and works as a graphic designer, it features another Cornish actor, Mary Woodvine, who is returning to the company after a break bringing up her 11-year-old son, and Carl Grose, a playwright who performs only with Kneehigh. Along with these old hands are two Icelandic actors and a Polish violinist-dancer. None of them finds working with Kneehigh easy: the script is devised during rehearsals, there are complicated dance routines, and you're on stage almost constantly, contributing to the songs. "I cannot dance and I cannot sing," says Grose. "I asked Emma recently, 'Why do you keep bringing me back?' She said because she's interested in seeing untrained people do extraordinary things."/ppWoodvine believes that this attitude, combined with the homeliness of the barns, gives actors "a really strong sense of ownership" in the company. It's because Rice wants to maintain this that she is constantly thinking of ways to keep Kneehigh's past alive in its future. She is currently raising money to create "the Asylum", so-called because it will be "a place of madness, but also of sanctuary: an environment like our barns, ancient and modern and really creative". This purpose-built tent venue will tour Britain, returning Kneehigh's productions to "urban car parks, wastelands, cliff-tops and fields". /ppIn the meantime, the company have Don John to rehearse. You would think, what with the rigours of devising and the morning exercises to get through, they would all want a decent night's sleep. But at midnight, Shepherd leads them to the nearby mansion they rent as a dormitory for a long session of silliness, improvising blues songs at the piano and playing frantic games of table tennis with increasingly absurd rules. If Don John turns out to be irreverent, naughty and anarchic, it will be because of the fortnight that the company has spent at Gorran Haven, lost in a world of their own./ppstrongDon John /strongis in rep at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, from December 12 to January 10. 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