Kneehigh announces new season

Kneehigh theatre company have announced their 2017 season.

Artistic director and founder of the company Mike Shepherd will direct Carl Grose's new version of The Tin Drum.

The show has music by Charles Hazlewood and is an adaptation of Gunter Grass' 1959 novel. The Tin Drum is a co-production between Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Kneehigh.

The Tin Drum follows the young Oskar, who at three years old is already able to process the world through adult eyes and decides to remain a child forever. The piece is set to the backdrop of World War II and is being retold by Kneehigh as a musical satire. The show runs at the Liverpool Everyman from 28 September to 14 October before touring to West Yorkshire Playhouse (17 to 28 October) and beyond.

Elsewhere in the season, Kneehigh brings back Emma Rice's production of Tristan and Yseult which will tour to the Celtic nations as well as London (at Shakespeare's Globe), Bristol and Brighton. The show opens at Brighton Festival on 23 May.

Rice's production of The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk is also due to return this year, opening at Bristol Old Vic on 9 August before heading to Edinburgh. Rice directs Daniel Jamieson's play about the artist Marc Chagall and his wife Bella.