Fup - A Modern Fable

Sound No. 1 | UK Tour
Kneehigh Theatre — Sep - Oct 2018

“With live music, big earthy performances and heart-melting puppetry, this comedy has a joyous, celebratory fizz and piercing melancholy”

Directed by Simon Harvey
Sound Design by Andy Graham

Book by Jim Dodge
Adapted by Simon Harvey
Music by Ben Sutcliffe

The Santee family are unconventional, to say the least.

One hundred year old Grandaddy Jake and his enormous grandson Tiny live life on the fringes, drinking whiskey, building fences, boasting of immortality. But then, Fup arrives – an ass-kicking, web-footed, feathery sonofagun. See, Fup is a duck. A very big duck. A very big duck indeed… And she is going to change their world forever.

Fup is a big-hearted, uproarious modern fable about family, love and nature set in a weird and wild Cornwall not so different from this one. Featuring live, foot-stomping music, quacking puppetry and Kneehigh’s infamous eccentricity and charm, Fup is a story like no other.

“With live music, big earthy performances and heart-melting puppetry, this comedy has a joyous, celebratory fizz and piercing melancholy”