Welcome to Headlong Theatre . ENRON was one of two productions to transfer from this season into the West End. Rupert Goold, is an English theatre director. The Sir Peter Hall Award for Best Director is an annual award presented by The Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial British theatre. Headlong Theatre | 266 followers on LinkedIn | Founded in 1974 as Oxford Stage Company, Headlong is one of the UK's leading Arts Council funded touring theatre companies. DOZENS OF THEATRE COMPANIES ARE INVOLVED INCLUDING ENGLISH TOURING THEATRE, FUEL, GRAEAE, HEADLONG, KNEEHIGH, NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE OF GREAT BRITAIN, PAINES PLOUGH, PENTABUS, FEN IN ASSOCIATION WITH OUT OF JOINT, SLUNG LOW, AND YELLOW EARTH THEATRE ... a group of touring companies came together to support each other; sharing ideas, … Masson and Cumming wrote The High Life, a Scottish situation comedy in which they play the lead characters, Steve McCracken and Sebastian Flight. ... Headlong has garnered a reputation for discovering the next generation of theatre artists. In 2017, it played on Broadway, making it the company's single most successful show to date.[5]. Headlong est une chanson du groupe britannique Queen, écrite par Brian May, sortie en 1991 et extraite de l'album Innuendo. Far from hemming them in, he believes it’s fostered “a new freedom and expansiveness, a sense of scale in every way” in a generation of writers like Ella Hickson and James Graham, both of whom have graduated from historical snapshots to sweeping socio-political epics. An adaptation of Simon Schama’s history of the slave trade Rough Crossings bombed, and one critic described a reworked Greek tragedy as “an assault on Medea.” Even so, at its best, Headlong brought a bravura energy to British theatre. Lucy Kirkwood’s Chimerica traced Chinese history by tracking down the so-called Tank Man of Tiananmen Square. Ella Hickson is a playwright and theatrical director who was brought up in Surrey near Guildford and educated at Guildford High School from 1996-2003. 7 (2006) and The Final Shot, both premiering in London. Headlong is a British touring theatre company noted for making bold, innovative productions with some of the UK’s finest artists. Headlong’s swaggering theatricality has moved into the mainstream. In September 2019, Herrin announced that he was stepping down as artistic director and will leave the company in 2020. He is the artistic director of the Almeida Theatre. Successful plays are often transferred to West End theatres.
Power was Headlong’s secret weapon. As Matt Trueman wrote in The Stage, 'Headlong has been full of bright young talent – Ben Power, Lucy Prebble, Robert Icke, Ella Hickson, Tom Scutt.'[8]. Earthquakes in London is a play by Mike Bartlett. La dernière modification de cette page a été faite le 6 août 2020 à 23:49. Jeremy Herrin took over the artistic directorship of the company in 2013, and is the current artistic director. The play was also published in 2010. Goold directed a revival of King Lear in 2008, starring Pete Postlethwaite, however Headlong moved towards new work, including three new plays commissioned and developed in-house: Richard Bean’s The English Game, Anthony Neilson’s Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness and, most notably, Lucy Prebble’s ENRON. Join our mailing list to receive regular updates from Headlong… Lucy Prebble is a British playwright. This site uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic.