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Kneehigh’s Retellings
chapter
posted on 2023-08-30, 15:21 authored by Heather LilleyDevised adaptation as practiced by Kneehigh Theatre is a complex, collaborative process of recreating myths, fairy tales , classic texts and films. These are adapted as popular, accessible, and often both celebratory and subversive theatrical experiences. This chapter is a study of Kneehigh’s creative processes alongside analysis of several of the performance works that they have generated since 1999. This study reveals the suitability of devising methodologies as valuable collaborative processes for unlocking and reimagining source texts . The company’s preference for the term ‘retelling’ over adaptation is shown to signal their alliance to an oral storytelling tradition in which intertextuality , narrative mutability, and shared cultural ownership of stories is prioritized over single authorship and fixed originals.
History
Refereed
- Yes
Page range
5-24Series
Adaptation in Theatre and PerformanceExternal DOI
Publisher
Palgrave MacmillanPlace of publication
London, UKTitle of book
Contemporary Approaches to Adaptation in TheatreISBN
978-1-137-59782-3Editors
Kara ReillyFile version
- Accepted version
Language
- eng