Rapunzel

Human beings love stories. We love to get lost in a far off world, immersed in a cracking good narrative. Even as we become old and cracked, we still want and dream of the same things, we still ask the same questions, fear the same horrors… and folktales are the deepest, darkest and truest of stories! This is why they have survived centuries and generations and telling upon telling. They hold a mirror up, not to our lives (for that watch a soap opera), but to our souls. They talk to us about the most essential and painful parts of being alive – independence, freedom, loss and love. They teach us to listen to ourselves. As Schiller wrote:

‘Deeper meaning resides in the fairytales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.’

Kneehigh are storytellers. We believe in the power of the imagination and the live event. It is a delicious privilege to be able to bring Annie Siddons’ mouth-wateringly magical telling of Rapunzel to life. Here’s to joy and escape, fear and redemption and to giving in to the bliss of being told a great story.

Emma Rice