Headlong Theatre Limited (commonly just Headlong ) is a British touring theatre company, formed in 1974 and named until 2006 as the Oxford Stage Company .
17-485: Its artistic directors have included Rupert Goold (2005–2013) and Jeremy Herrin (2013–2020). Its current artistic director is Holly Race Roughan. Plays produced by Headlong include A View from the Bridge, untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play, Jitney, Best of Enemies, People, Places & Things and Enron , and major digital theatre innovations Signal Fires and Unprecedented . This British theatre–related article
34-619: A First in English literature and studied performance studies at New York University on a Fulbright Scholarship . He was trainee director at Donmar Warehouse for the 1995 season, and assisted on productions including 'Art' and Speed-the-Plow in the West End. Goold was artistic director of the Royal and Derngate Theatres in Northampton from 2000 to 2005. Prior to that, he
51-455: A Play nominations for King Charles III (2016) and Ink (2019). He made his directorial film debut with Judy (2019). Goold was born in Highgate , England, a suburb of north London . His father was a management consultant, and his mother was an author of children's books. He attended the independent University College School , graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge , in 1994 with
68-503: A career anti-climax. "I came home to an empty house after the Olivier Awards, clutching my trophy for Best Director and I realised that I'd peaked. It was now going to be downhill all the way. But I still felt quite comfortable with the realisation that nothing could get better after this." He later directed a 2010 BBC 4 television film version of Macbeth using Soviet-era Russian-type uniforms and weapons. In 2008, he directed
85-571: A nomination for the Olivier Award for Best Director. In 2024 he directed the New York transfer of The Hunt which ran at St. Ann's Warehouse . Goold is married to actress Kate Fleetwood . The couple met while working together on a production of Romeo and Juliet . They have one son, Raphael, and a daughter, Constance. Macbeth (2010 film) Macbeth is a 2010 television film based on William Shakespeare 's tragedy of
102-576: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a company of the UK is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Rupert Goold Rupert Goold CBE (born 18 February 1972) is an English director who works primarily in theatre. He is the artistic director of the Almeida Theatre , and was the artistic director of Headlong Theatre Company (2005–2013). Since 2010, Goold has been an associate director at
119-712: The Gielgud Theatre in London, then the Brooklyn Academy of Music , New York and then to the Lyceum Theater on Broadway. At the 2007 Evening Standard Theatre Awards , Macbeth won two awards: Stewart won the Best Actor Award, while Goold won The Sydney Edwards Award for Best Director. It also won Goold a 2008 Olivier Award for Best Director. He says he was not concerned with thoughts of
136-656: The London Palladium production, which was nominated for three Olivier Awards. In 2009, Goold directed a revival of Shakespeare's King Lear at the Young Vic . Goold set his Lear in Northern England during the 1970s, fascinated by the fact that during this decade, Britain was enduring the power of women. He approached the play with a drastically different view, and as a result this production received mixed reviews. In 2009, he again won Best Director at
153-635: The Peter Morgan play Patriots about the rise of Vladimir Putin and the Elton John musical Tammy Faye about the American evangelist Tammy Faye Messner . The following year he directed the play Dear England about the England football manager Gareth Southgate and Cold War based on the 2018 film of the same name directed by Paweł Pawlikowski , the former of which earned Goold
170-722: The Royal Shakespeare Company . He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 for services to drama. Goold is known for his extensive work in theatre. For his work in the West End he won two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Director for Macbeth (2008) and Enron (2010). He was Olivier-nominated for King Charles III (2015), Ink (2018), and Dear England (2024). He received Tony Award for Best Direction of
187-597: The Samuel J. Friedman Theatre . Goold received his second nomination for the Tony Award for Best Direction . That same year he directed the Almeida Theatre production of The Hunt (2019) starring Tobias Menzies by David Farr which was based on the 2012 film of the same name directed Thomas Vinterberg . In 2021 he directed the musical revival of Spring Awakening on the West End. In 2022 he directed
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#1732776642968204-517: The Evening Standard Awards for ENRON . His opera credits include productions at Batignano Opera Festival and Garsington . In the following years he directed a string of plays for the Almeida Theatre , which include the musical American Psycho (2013), the new play King Charles III (2014), the revivals Medea (2015) and Richard III (2016), as well as the new play Ink (2017). Goold returned to Broadway with
221-622: The UK premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis 's The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and a radical re-interpretation of Pirandello 's Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Chichester Festival which he co-authored with Ben Power . This production subsequently transferred to the West End and toured the UK and later Australia. In 2009 he directed a hugely acclaimed West End revival of Lionel Bart 's Oliver! Produced by Cameron Mackintosh , Goold recreated Sam Mendes ' direction for
238-450: The atmosphere of Romania in the 1960s, with parallels between Ceaușescu and Macbeth in their equally brutal quests for power. The Three Witches likewise receive an update in keeping with the 20th century aesthetics, appearing as hospital nurses. Their presence is pervasive throughout the film, punctuating the horror of Macbeth's murderous reign. Principal cast: The film was shot entirely on location at Welbeck Abbey . Macbeth won
255-561: The same name . It was broadcast on BBC Four on 12 December 2010. In the United States, it aired on PBS ' Great Performances . It was directed by Rupert Goold from his stage adaptation for the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2007. Patrick Stewart is featured in the title role , with Kate Fleetwood as Lady Macbeth . The film is a more modern re-imagining of William Shakespeare's Macbeth . It evokes
272-551: The transfer of the play, King Charles III which he previously directed in the West End. He earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play . The following year he directed the musical transfer, American Psycho based on the 1991 novel of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis . In 2019 he directed the Broadway transfer for the James Graham play Ink about the rise of Rupert Murdoch which ran at
289-603: Was an associate at the Salisbury Playhouse in 1996–97. In addition to his work as a director he has co-authored three adaptations for the stage. Goold directed Sir Patrick Stewart (whom he had previously directed as Prospero, and later in Richard II ) as Macbeth in his acclaimed Minerva Studio staging of Macbeth at the Chichester Festival Theatre in May 2007. In September 2007, the production transferred to
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