Events in 2025
Winter Festival - December 2025
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A Christmas Carol performed by Dave Mynne Thursday 18 December 2025 7.30pm Tickets: £12 on the door Joe Doyle and friends Traditional Irish Music Friday 19th December 2025 8pm - late FREE - donations gratefully accepted! Anansi and the Lost Sun by Carolene Ada - Swallows Wings Puppetry Saturday 20th December 2025 A show for all the family! 3pm £5 on the door One day Darkness covers the face of the Land. Lion appeals for someone to bring back the Light and save the World. Who will succeed? The Powerful Eagle? The Clever Monkey? or Anansi the Spider and his mates? |
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Workshops at The Barns
Workshops with Jamie Wood
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Jamie Wood Creation week course
27 - 31 October 2025
Jamie Wood Creation week course
17 - 24 May 2025
27 - 31 October 2025
Jamie Wood Creation week course
17 - 24 May 2025
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Performance sharings
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R&Ds
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The Ugly Duckling ON TOUR
with Mike Shepherd and Rachel Leonard puppets by Lyndie Wright The Ladder, Redruth 20th - 22nd November 2025 Mevagissey Activity Centre 27th November 2025 Lostwithiel Church Rooms 29th November 2025 The Barns for Gorran School 2nd December 2025 Sterts Arts Centre 5th - 6th December 2025 Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Lamphouse Theatre Thursday 16 October 2025 7.30pm Tickets: £12 on the door Dancing Frog and The Ugly Duckling remounts directed by Mike Shepherd performed by Sarah Wright, Rachel Leonard, Bartolomeo Bartolini, Katie Lusby, Tim Dalling, TJ Holmes 18 - 30 August 2025 |
Curious School of Puppetry Ideas week
6 - 10 October 2025 A Lion Roars led by Carolene Ada 1 - 6 September 2025 Photocopies led by Hannah White 21 - 26 July 2025 Tangled Feet Theatre 7 - 12 July 2025 Seamus Carey 26 - 29 May 2025 Lamphouse Theatre 1 - 4 June 2025 Pandora Project Silent Tide 4 - 15 August 2025 |
Community Projects
Gorran Arts Week
16 - 20 June 2025
Withie Group
January - March 2025
16 - 20 June 2025
Withie Group
January - March 2025
Archive
2024
Workshops
Kneehigh Legacy Project SLATE session led by John Wright, with Hector T J Huang, Jemima Yong, Sarah Wright, Mike Shepherd, Carl Grose, Kirsty Woodward, the HOTTER Project: Mary Higgins and Ell Potter, Louise Mellor, Josh Penrose, Connie Crosby, Sally Knight
Kneehigh Legacy Project retreat led by Jemima Yong with Phyllida Hickish, Ross Hunter, Alan Fielden, Emma Clark, PJ Stanley, Josie Dale Jones, Freddie Crossley, Susie Ferguson, Nico Pimpare and Chloe Myerson.
21 - 25 October 2024
Kneehigh Legacy Project SLATE session: Experiments in music and dance led by Etta Murfitt & Ian Ross with Hector T J Huang, 11 Magpies, Bryony Harris, Harry Ondiak-Wright, Paris Patrick, James Gow, Alex Vann, Lizzie Westcott, Roisin McCay-Hines
31 August - 5 September 2024
Kneehigh Legacy Project SLATE session: The Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
20 - 23 May 2024
Kneehigh Legacy Project retreat led by Jemima Yong with Phyllida Hickish, Ross Hunter, Alan Fielden, Emma Clark, PJ Stanley, Josie Dale Jones, Freddie Crossley, Susie Ferguson, Nico Pimpare and Chloe Myerson.
21 - 25 October 2024
Kneehigh Legacy Project SLATE session: Experiments in music and dance led by Etta Murfitt & Ian Ross with Hector T J Huang, 11 Magpies, Bryony Harris, Harry Ondiak-Wright, Paris Patrick, James Gow, Alex Vann, Lizzie Westcott, Roisin McCay-Hines
31 August - 5 September 2024
Kneehigh Legacy Project SLATE session: The Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
20 - 23 May 2024
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Performance Sharings
That Love Thing
written and performed by Peter Keeley, directed by Mike Shepherd produced by Restless Successors
performed by Dave Mynne 29 October 2024 8pm Cratchitts' Christmas Cracker 11 - 12 December 2024 The Ugly Duckling at The Lucky Chance 2 - 21 December 2024 |
R&D
Katie Lusby Dance
12- 16 February 2024 Rocketbox Theatre 4 - 17 March 2024 Writer's retreat led by Emma Bettridge 16 - 18 April 2024 Red Herring 6 - 10 May 2024 Tangled Feet 8 June 2024 Roisin McCay-Hines 10 - 14 June 2024 Pandora Silent Tide 1 - 8 July 2024 Puppet making for The Creakers 29 July - 2 August 2024 |
Community Events
Gorran Arts Week
8 - 12 July 2024
Withie Group
January - March 2024
8 - 12 July 2024
Withie Group
January - March 2024
2023 Winter Calendar
Friday 15th Dec
Barns open to all throughout the day and evening. Join us for a walk on the cliff or a seat by the fire. All aforementioned treats plus a bar for those that fancy a pre-Christmas tipple.
Saturday 16th Dec at 7.30pm
Open all day and evening (aforementioned... as before!)
The incomparable Annamaria Murphy and Boilerhouse…. "With a growing reputation for their earthy and generous shows, Boilerhouse is a five-piece acapella group who put their passion, joy and love of singing into every performance. Drawing on many influences here is a band rooted in the Cornish singing tradition but looking out to the world." Collaborating with long time Kneehigh adventurer Annamaria Murphy who creates unbelievable stories with wit, outrage and a whiff of wisdom!
With bar and tasty snacks
Tickets on the door: £12 donation
Come to both Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th for £20!!
Sunday 17th at 7.30pm
Same as above and above…the fires are still burning, the soup still bubbling and there might even be a mince pie and some mulled wine!
PLUS!!!
David Mynne, veteran Cornish actor and a founder member of Kneehigh, in a one-man performance of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
Spend an evening with Ebenezer Scrooge; a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching, covetous old miser! Bah!
With bar and tasty snacks
Tickets on the door: £12 donation
Come to both Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th for £20!!
Friday 15th Dec
Barns open to all throughout the day and evening. Join us for a walk on the cliff or a seat by the fire. All aforementioned treats plus a bar for those that fancy a pre-Christmas tipple.
Saturday 16th Dec at 7.30pm
Open all day and evening (aforementioned... as before!)
The incomparable Annamaria Murphy and Boilerhouse…. "With a growing reputation for their earthy and generous shows, Boilerhouse is a five-piece acapella group who put their passion, joy and love of singing into every performance. Drawing on many influences here is a band rooted in the Cornish singing tradition but looking out to the world." Collaborating with long time Kneehigh adventurer Annamaria Murphy who creates unbelievable stories with wit, outrage and a whiff of wisdom!
With bar and tasty snacks
Tickets on the door: £12 donation
Come to both Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th for £20!!
Sunday 17th at 7.30pm
Same as above and above…the fires are still burning, the soup still bubbling and there might even be a mince pie and some mulled wine!
PLUS!!!
David Mynne, veteran Cornish actor and a founder member of Kneehigh, in a one-man performance of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
Spend an evening with Ebenezer Scrooge; a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching, covetous old miser! Bah!
With bar and tasty snacks
Tickets on the door: £12 donation
Come to both Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th for £20!!
APRIL 2023
Calvino Nights returns to the Minack Theatre!
Dates 5th - 22nd JUNE 2023
Tickets and Info at Minack Website HERE
JANUARY-MARCH 2023
The winter is a time for Crab Pot making at The Barns. Workshops in pot building and working with green withies are taking place January - March 2023
