Kneehigh Theatre contributed to the cultural landscape of the UK and internationally over four decades of inventive, joyous, rebellious theatre-making, creating over 70 main stage shows. Every theatre company reaches an ending & those like Kneehigh that shaped the cultural landscape remain influential long past the creation of new work. The Legacy Project is about ensuring Kneehigh’s contribution to the United Kingdom as a creative & cultural country is recorded & passed on to the next generation of theatre makers.

The aim of the Kneehigh Legacy Project is to share a set of values, a process and a spirit & enrich the future of Cornish & UK Theatre through the creation of learning & teaching resources.

Kneehigh Theatre’s approach is valuable not just for young theatre makers but, in an increasingly anxious world, all young people. The resources will support teachers to understand and create for their students the environment that enabled Kneehigh to make their best creative work:

• To teach immeasurability - because if it can’t be measured it is probably good for you.

• To counter anxiety - because we need a safe, free place where we are not strangled by expectations.

• To grow imagination - because it is the source of all human achievement.