News

2024 gets off to a running start

17 Jan 2024

As we approach the New Year’s planning, our office has been caught up in a lot of new and exciting projects. A few will be advertised soon! However, we can tell you that it looks as if a new touring show will be out and about in the Summer, and a set of workshops will … Read more

Beginnings….beginnings

18 Sep 2023

After such a busy summer, with the ‘Hearing George, Deaf Dragon’ tour having clocked up a lot of miles, we are back in the office and planning the next set of shenanigans. And, as we start to begin the much and many preparations for a brand new Kat-show, here’s a publicity shot (by P G … Read more

The Kats prepare the Dragon…

27 Mar 2023

We are delighted to announce that the company have received a very encouraging grant from Arts Council England for our tour, out on the road later this year, of a new workshop experience ‘Hearing George -Deaf Dragon’. With the current maelstrom in the international arts funding world, Krazy Kat is so pleased to be recognised … Read more

As the Old Year leaves…

21 Dec 2022

All of us at the Krazy Kat Theatre Company send seasonal wishes and joy to the world. As we slide gently towards the wonder that will be 2023 we are looking forward to more delights and many shenanigans!

Our Signed Commedia dell Arte history is celebrated!

19 Sep 2022

As part of our ongoing teaching work Kinny was invited to write a memory of how we first started using Sign Language in our work. It has now been published in this delightful online magazine ‘Zannizine’. This is a photo by Robert Workman from that very first signed show ‘Cacophony’ with Kinny Gardner as Arlechinno … Read more

‘WOLF!’ is coming…

12 Jun 2022

Not the one in this photo, though. ‘WOLF!’ is our new workshop tour which is out on the road later this year. We are writing, scheming, plotting and planning to get it out and about throughout the UK. In the meantime, this lovely archive photo was taken by Sue Buckmaster in the 1990’s when Alastair … Read more

40 Years Old? Must be an April fool!

31 Mar 2022

However, it’s not! On 1st April 2022 The Krazy Kat Theatre Company is forty years old. We’ve seen a lot of changes in the International Theatre scene, and have contributed quite a bit to the ecology of community based, disabled – led, arts in the UK. Here’s a statement that our original Company treasurer, the … Read more

Krazy Kat Jim Fish is now Harry Potter in London’s West End

19 Mar 2022

Taking over the lead role in ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ at London’s Palace Theatre in the West End is our own Jim Fish. Actor and co-creator with Krazy Kat for many years, he has been in the Harry Potter company for a while, and now steps up to play the great man himself. … Read more

More 40th Birthday Memories

16 Mar 2022

One of our Kats requested to see this again. And who are we to disagree! It was a joyous production, co-produced with Fittings Multimedia and The Royal Exchange Theatre in lovely Manchester. Edmund has now retired to the south of France, but occasionally visits the office to spread his own special brand of Pigginess… Click … Read more

As we are approaching our 40th Birthday on April 1st 2022…

31 Jan 2022

… we thought to post some ‘historical’ archive materials. And so, here is an article from Time Out about our first EVER sign-language extravaganza. ‘CACOPHONY’ was created in 2000, with funding from Arts Council England, as an experiment in developing our own visual voice. It was brilliantly directed by Barry Grantham,. It featured Kinny Gardner, … Read more