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His association with the Almeida Theatre Company began in 2008 when he directed Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. In 2013 his Headlong theatre company co-produced the premiere of Lucy Kirkwood 's Chimerica , directed by Lyndsey Turner, at the Almeida: the show subsequently transferred to the West End , winning five Olivier ...
The Years (French: Les Années) is a 2008 non-fiction book by Annie Ernaux. It has been described as a "hybrid" memoir , spanning the period of 1941 to 2006. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Ernaux's English publisher, Seven Stories Press , described it as an autobiography that is "at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective."
Rupert Goold CBE (born 18 February 1972) [1] 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). [2]
The Almeida Theatre production received positive reviews from audiences and critics including four star reviews from The Guardian, [13] Time Out, [14] The Independent, [15] Financial Times, [16] WhatsOnStage, [17] and The Sunday Times. [18] In its review of the Broadway production, The New York Times called the show "disjointed, strangely bland."
In a review of the Almeida production, The Stage noted that in the conversion from a film to a stage version, the story had "lost little of its power to shock and enthral in its transfer to the West End." [2] A BBC London reviewer described the play as "one of the most powerful, poignant and overwhelming evenings I've ever spent in the theatre ...
Adding a baby grand piano to a musical is not, on the face of it, a revolutionary act. Ever since John Doyle’s actor-musician production of Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd” became a West End and ...
King Charles III is a 2014 play in blank verse by Mike Bartlett that premiered at the Almeida Theatre in London. The play is a future history account of the accession and reign of King Charles III of the United Kingdom (who was then still Prince of Wales), and the limiting of the freedom of the press after the News International phone hacking scandal.