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HOUSTON, TX – Britain’s innovative and exciting theatre company Kneehigh
makes their Texas debut at the Alley Theatre with a wonderfully
inventive, utterly timeless, delightful tale of love. King Mark rules
with his head, until he falls head over heels for his enemy’s sister.
Based on the ancient tale, Kneehigh’s Tristan & Yseult revels in
forbidden desires, broken hearts and grand passions. Seen through the
eyes of the 'Unloved,' Kneehigh’s Tristan & Yseult blends comedy, live
music and tender truths in an irresistible night of love! For
mature audiences, adult language and sexual situations.
The New
York Times says Kneehigh’s “crossing of emotional boundaries, which
sabotages our typical programmed responses as an audience, is the
shaping force of Tristan & Yseult. And I can’t think of another company
that achieves this dynamic as vividly and unexpectedly.” Called
“visually and emotionally intoxicating” by the NY Post, “Tristan &
Yseult is a sensory feast. Each design detail is integral to the story,
and brilliantly put to use by Rice and her cast . . . Kneehigh is
the gold standard of theatrical rigor, fortified by a heavy dose of
fun.”-Theatermania
Dominic Marsh and Hannah Vassallo in Kneehigh's Tristan & Yseult. Kneehigh
Theatre Company’s
production
runs
from April 24 – May 24, 2015 on the Alley Theatre UH Wortham Theatre. Photo by
Richard Termine.
“I love this production. It is one of those rare shows that is
greater than the sum of its parts” said Director Emma Rice. “It has
taken on a life, a universality that touches and surprises me each time
we perform it. As the story unfolds, I realize there is not one person
in that audience who doesn’t profoundly recognize something in the
situation; to love someone that you shouldn’t, to betray someone you
love, to be betrayed, to be left and most painful of all – to be
unloved.”
The cast of Kneehigh’s Tristan & Yseult features Niall
Ashdown as Morholt/Brangian, Damon Daunno as Frocin, Stuart Goodwin as
King Mark, James Gow as Musician, Dominic Marsh as Tristan, Pat Moran as
Musician and Music Director, Justin Radford as Musician, Hannah Vassallo
as Yseult, Lizzy Westcott as Musician, Kirsty Woodward as Whitehands and
Róbert Lučkay and Gareth Charlton as Lovespotters, Brutes and Animators.
The creative team for Kneehigh’s Tristan & Yseult includes writers
Carl Grose and Anna Maria Murphy, Composer Stu Barker, Designer Bill
Mitchell, Lighting Designer Malcolm Rippeth, Sound Designer Gregory
Clarke and Producer Paul Crewes.
Kneehigh’s Tristan & Yseult,
directed and adapted by Emma Rice, begins performances Friday, April 24
2015, opens officially Wednesday, April 29 and runs through Sunday, May
24, 2015 at the University of Houston’s Wortham Theatre.
SPONSORS
Kneehigh’s Tristan & Yseult is generously
sponsored by Premiere Sponsors The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts
and The Humpreys Foundation and Lead Sponsor United Airlines, the
official airline of the Alley Theatre.
The Company in Kneehigh's Tristan & Yseult. Kneehigh Theatre Company’s
production
runs
from April 24 – May 24, 2015 on the Alley Theatre UH Wortham Theatre. Photo by
Richard Termine.
ABOUT KNEEEHIGH
Kneehigh are a UK based theatre
company with a local, national and international profile. For over 30
years Kneehigh have created vigorous, popular and challenging theatre
and perform with the joyful anarchy that audiences have come to expect
from this ground breaking company. Kneehigh tell stories. Based in
Cornwall in breath-taking barns on the south coast the company create
theatre of humanity on an epic and tiny scale. They work with an
ever-changing ensemble of performers, artists, technicians,
administrators, sculptors and musicians and are passionate about their
multi-disciplined creative process.
In 2010 Kneehigh launched the
Asylum, a beautiful and flexible nomadic structure, which means the
company now has a venue to call home; as well as being one of the
leading touring theatre companies in the UK. This year, the company
present their fifth season in the Asylum in Cornwall, returning to the
Lost Gardens of Heligan in July 2015.
Alongside their national
and international touring and Asylum seasons, Kneehigh run their Rambles
program aiming to engage creatively with communities in Cornwall and
beyond through event and adventure. Kneehigh are supported by Arts
Council England and Cornwall Council.
ABOUT THE ALLEY THEATRE The
Alley Theatre produces 400 performances annually, more than all other
performing arts organizations in the Theater District combined.
The Alley has attracted over 8 million people to Houston’s Theater
District since 1968 and has a $34.5 million annual economic impact on
the City of Houston (“Arts & Economic Prosperity III: The Economic
Impact of Nonprofit Arts & Culture Organizations and their Audiences in
the City of Houston,” Americans for the Arts, 2005.)
The Alley
Theatre, one of America’s leading not-for-profit theatres, is a
nationally recognized performing arts company focused on collaborating
with resident actors, visiting artists, directors, designers,
dramaturgs, and authors to cultivate the new voices, new work, and new
artists of the American theatre. A staff of 177 is under the
direction of Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and Managing Director Dean
R. Gladden. The Alley has also brought its productions to 40 American
cities, and to Berlin, Paris, St. Petersburg and New York’s Lincoln
Center, as well as to major European festivals (including two in one
season at the Venice Biennale) and Broadway. A recipient of the Special
Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, the Alley creates a
wide-ranging repertoire and innovative productions of classics,
neglected modern plays, and premieres, as well as new works developed
through the Alley’s new play initiative. During the 2014 - 2015 season
the Alley Theatre will be performing at the University of Houston’s
Wortham Theatre as the Alley’s downtown home is being renovated. For
more information go to
www.alleytheatre.org/uh.
TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets to Kneehigh’s
Tristan & Yseult start at $26. All tickets are available for purchase at
alleytheatre.org, at the Alley Theatre Box Office or by calling
713.220.5700. Groups of 10 or more can receive special concierge
services and select discounts by calling 713.220.5700 and asking for the
group sales department.
ALLEY THEATRE @ UH
The Wortham Theatre is located just off Cullen Boulevard on UH’s main
campus inside the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts building
(also called building 507 on a UH campus map), which also houses the UH
School of Theatre & Dance. Free designated parking for Alley
patrons will be actively monitored and patrolled by campus security for
all performances and is located at campus entrance 16 off Cullen
Boulevard, just across the street from the theatre building. The best
address to use for online maps and directions to the UH theatre is 4116
Elgin, Houston TX 77004.
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