Read more on Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs) – Podcast Interview with Mike Shepherd and Charles Hazlewood from the Kneehigh Cookbook archive.
A podcast interview with Mike Shepherd and Charles Hazlewood on Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs).
Click here to listen
Please note, following this link will take you away from the This is Kneehigh website to the British Theatre Guide website.
“Kneehigh Theatre Company from Cornwall is currently working on a brand new adaptation of John Gays The Beggars Opera titled Dead Dog in a Suitcase, with a script by regular Kneehigh writer Carl Grose and music by Charles Hazlewood, directed by Kneehigh founder Mike Shepherd.
Charles Hazlewood spoke to us from Sweden where he was conducting a concert of music from video games with the Malmö SymfoniOrkester. He talks about his involvement in the project from taking it to Mike Shepherd as an idea around three years ago through his process of creating the score in rehearsals with the performers and scriptwriter-lyricist Carl Grose.
Mike Shepherd, speaking to us at the end of the first week of rehearsals at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, where the show opens in June, speaks about the evolving story and politics of the show and the influences of modern events and modern popular culture, as well as the process of bringing it to the stage.
Mike also explains how Kneehigh has developed and constantly changed direction since he founded it in 1980, and talks about some current Kneehigh projects including Kneehigh Rambles and the company’s mobile theatre space the Asylum.”
Taken from the British Theatre Guide Website.
