Emma Rice, artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, made her name as director and then artistic director of Kneehigh, Cornwall’s International Theatre, the creator of productions in quarries, woods, industrial ruins and on cliff tops. Rice now revives Kneehigh’s most recent production, which was originally staged in a purpose-built tent.
946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips is an adaptation of a novel by Michael Morpurgo, the former Children’s Laureate and famed author of War Horse. The story is set in 1944 in Devon during a rehearsal for the D-Day landings in Normandy. 946 refers to the number of men who drowned during a training exercise, a disaster which was hushed-up and not told until long after the war had finished. Tips is a cat that goes missing. He is played by a puppet. There is also an endearing puppet dog.
