The Theatre of Rupert Goold
Radical Approaches to Adaptation and New Writing
Published on 12. November 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-350-09072-9 (ISBN)
Description
Since the late 1990s, Rupert Goold has garnered a reputation as one of the UK's most exciting and provocative theatre directors. His exhilarating, risk-taking productions of both classic texts and new plays have travelled from regional stages to the National Theatre, the West End, Broadway and beyond. Through his artistic directorship of Northampton's Royal & Derngate, the touring theatre company Headlong and London's Almeida Theatre, he has radically transformed, not only the companies themselves, but the landscape of British theatre. This is the first book to survey and analyse the full range of Goold's work to date and is a vital resource for students, scholars and fans of his work.
Based on extensive interviews with Goold and some of the playwrights, designers, actors and other creatives who have collaborated with him, The Theatre of Rupert Goold provides an account of Goold's work from the beginnings of his career to the present day, offering a backstage view of the creative processes behind some of his most successful productions including: Paradise Lost, Faustus (Royal & Derngate); Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet (RSC); Six Characters in Search of an Author, ENRON (Headlong); Time and the Conways (National Theatre); Charles III and Ink (Almeida). The Theatre of Rupert Goold is an accessible and fascinating guide to Goold's approach to making theatre, an approach that asks provocative questions of the modern world in the most theatrical ways imaginable.
Based on extensive interviews with Goold and some of the playwrights, designers, actors and other creatives who have collaborated with him, The Theatre of Rupert Goold provides an account of Goold's work from the beginnings of his career to the present day, offering a backstage view of the creative processes behind some of his most successful productions including: Paradise Lost, Faustus (Royal & Derngate); Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet (RSC); Six Characters in Search of an Author, ENRON (Headlong); Time and the Conways (National Theatre); Charles III and Ink (Almeida). The Theatre of Rupert Goold is an accessible and fascinating guide to Goold's approach to making theatre, an approach that asks provocative questions of the modern world in the most theatrical ways imaginable.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
20 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-09072-9 (9781350090729)
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Sarah Grochala leads the MFA/MA in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media programme at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK. Her previous publications include The Contemporary Political Play: Rethinking Dramaturgical Structure (Methuen Drama, 2017) and her plays include: S-27 (Amnesty International/iceandfire Protect the Human Award 2007) and Smolensk (Adopt a Playwright Award 2011). Between 2012-16, she was an associate artist with the theatre company Headlong, including an extended period of working with Goold on both the company's work and its profile.
Content
Foreword Rupert Goold
Introduction
Part One: The Work
1 - Beginnings
2 - Northampton
3 - Headlong and the RSC: Early Years
4 - Headlong and the RSC: Later Years
5 - Almeida
Part Two: Approaches to Practice
6 - Directing
7 - Shakespeare
8 - Adaptation
9 - New Writing
10 - Opera
11 - Artistic Direction
12 - Talent Development
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Part One: The Work
1 - Beginnings
2 - Northampton
3 - Headlong and the RSC: Early Years
4 - Headlong and the RSC: Later Years
5 - Almeida
Part Two: Approaches to Practice
6 - Directing
7 - Shakespeare
8 - Adaptation
9 - New Writing
10 - Opera
11 - Artistic Direction
12 - Talent Development
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index