In Conversation
Proagon: Discussion & Debate
Tickets £7
(Concessions and Under 30s £5)
Join Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold, Ivo Van Hove and Deborah Warner in conversation to mark the launch of our Almeida Greeks season. As three of the world's leading directors of classical work, Rupert, Ivo and Deborah will explore why these texts remain central to the ongoing practice of theatre makers, audiences and the wider theatrical ecology.
Monday 8 June 5pm
Almeida Theatre Auditorium
Deborah's career spans theatre and opera as well as forays into television and film. She founded her own theatre company – The Kick Theatre Company when she was 21 directing The Tempest; Measure for Measure; King Lear & Coriolanus.
Theatre includes: The Testament of Mary (Broadway/Barbican); A School for Scandal & Julius Caesar (Barbican); Titus Andronicus, King John and Electra (RSC); The Good Person of Sichuan;King Lear; Richard II; The Powerbook; Happy Days; Mother Courage and her Children (NT); Hedda Gabler (Abbey/Playhouse Theatre); Footfalls (Garrick Theatre); Coriolanus (Salzburg Festival); Une Maison de Poupée (Odéon, Paris); Medea (Dublin, London & Broadway).
Installations include: Peace Camp (Artichoke), The St Pancras Project; The Tower Project (LIFT) & The Angel Project (PIAF & Lincoln Center).
Opera includes: Between Worlds (ENO at The Barbican); Fidelio (La Scala, Milan); Eugene Onegin (Metropolitan Opera); Messiah (Lyon); Wozzeck & La Voix Humaine (Opera North); Don Giovanni; Fidelio (Glyndebourne); Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher (BBC Proms); The Turn of the Screw (ROH at the Barbican - winner of the Evening Standard and South Bank Awards); The Diary of One Who Vanished (ENO, Lincoln Center & NT); Messiah; Eugene Onegin; St John Passion (ENO); Death in Venice (ENO, La Monnaie & Milan); Wozzeck; La Voix Humaine (Opera North); The Rape of Lucretia (Bavarian State Opera); Dido and Aeneas (Vienna/Netherlands Opera) ; La Traviata (Vienna).
Television & Film credits include: Hedda Gabler; Richard II; St. John Passion; The Waste Land; The Last September.
Her production of The Waste Land toured throughout Europe and won 2 Drama Desk Awards in New York.She was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 1992, L'Officier des Arts et des Lettres in 2000 and Commandeaur des Arts et des Lettres in 2013. Deborah was made a CBE in the 2006 Queens birthday honours list.
Photo: Paul Rogers
Rupert is Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre. He was previously Artistic Director of Headlong Theatre Company, Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Artistic Director of Northampton Theatres.
For the Almeida: King Charles III; American Psycho: A new musical thriller; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.
Theatre includes: The Effect; Earthquakes in London (Headlong / National Theatre); Time and the Conways (National Theatre); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Three Sixty / Kensington Gardens); The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; The Tempest; Speaking Like Magpies (RSC); ENRON (Headlong / Chichester Festival Theatre / Royal Court / West End / Broadway); Oliver!; The Glass Menagerie; Art; Speed-the-Plow (West End); King Lear (Headlong / Liverpool Everyman / Young Vic); No Man’s Land (Gate Theatre, Dublin / West End); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong / Chichester Festival Theatre / Bristol Old Vic / West End); Macbeth (Brooklyn Academy of Music / Lyceum Theater / Broadway); Faustus; Restoration; Paradise Lost (Headlong); Hamlet; Summer Lightning; Insignificance; Paradise Lost; Waiting for Godot; The Weir; Betrayal (Theatre Royal, Northampton); Othello (Theatre Royal, Northampton / Greenwich Theatre); Scaramouche (Salisbury Playhouse / Australia, New Zealand, Canada tour); The Wind in the Willows; Privates on Parade (New Vic Theatre); Gone to LA (Hampstead Theatre); Broken Glass (Watford Palace Theatre); Habeus Corpus; Summer Lighting; Dancing at Lughnasa (Salisbury Playhouse); The Colonel Bird (Gate Theatre); Brand (NT Studio); Romeo and Juliet (Greenwich Theatre); The End of the Affair (Bridewell Theatre).
Opera includes: Turandot; On Thee We Feed (English National Opera); Le Comte Ory (Garsington Opera); Gli Equivoci; Il Pomo D’Oro (Batignano Opera Festival).
Film includes: Richard II; Macbeth.
As Writer and Director, film includes: True Story.
Rupert has twice been the recipient of the Laurence Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard awards for Best Director.
Theatre director Ivo van Hove has held central positions in Dutch-Belgian cultural life, first as the head of Het Zuidelijk Toneel in Eindhoven from 1990 to 2000 and from 2001 as general director of the Toneelgroep Amsterdam. This is the country's prime theatre company and the official municipal theatre company of Amsterdam. With an annual average of five new plays and over 350 performances, the company plays to audiences of 110.000 each year.
Other recent productions include: Antigone (Barbican); Scenes from a Marriage (New York Theatre Workshop); A View from the Bridge (Young Vic); Brokeback Mountain (Teatro Real): La Clemenza di Tito (De Munt Opera); Selstames Intermezzo (Münchner Kammerspiele); Mazeppa (Komische OperBerlin); Macbeth (L'Opera de Lyon); Edward II (Schaubühne Berlin) The Little Foxes (New York Theatre Workshop); Idomeneo, Re di Creta (De Munt Opera, Brussels).
Ivo received the 2015 Olivier Award for Best Director for his revival of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Young Vic. In 2014 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for general merit from the University of Antwerp.