Headlong (group)

Headlong is a British theatre company noted for commissioning and developing new work, as well as staging new productions of established plays from the theatrical canon. Originally set up in 1974 as The Oxford Stage Company, the company underwent a major rebranding and received its current name under the leadership of artistic director Rupert Goold (2005-2013). Previous artistic directors include John Retallack (1989-1999) and Dominic Dromgoole (1999-2005). Jeremy Herrin took over the artistic directorship of the company in 2013, and is the current artistic director.

Season 1

Headlong’s first season (2006-2008), was called Reinventing the Epic. Headlong began with two major revivals: Edward Bond’s Restoration (with new songs written for the revival by Bond, scored by Adam Cork) and Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. The major production, however, was Faustus. This radical reworking of Christopher Marlowe’s epic was a reimagining, half-Marlowe and half new text (written by Rupert Goold and Ben Power) contrasting Faustus’s story with that of the Chapman Brothers and their rectifying of Goya’s The Disasters of War etchings by adding clown faces to them.

Season 2

The only revival in Headlong's second season (2008-2009) was Goold’s own production of King Lear, starring Pete Postlethwaite. 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. ENRON was one of two productions to transfer from this season into the West End. The other was Rupert Goold and Ben Power’s reworking of Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, which reframed Pirandello’s play in a contemporary structure.

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