In Conversation: Richard Eyre and Rupert Goold

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What is the role of an artistic director?

Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold in conversation with Sir Richard Eyre about the joys and challenges of artistic leadership; about balancing directing shows with directing an artistic programme; and about how theatre has evolved since Richard's legendary time at the National Theatre.

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Tue 24 Nov 6pm
Almeida Theatre Auditorium

Richard Eyre

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Richard was Director of the National Theatre from 1988–1997. He has received numerous major awards; he was knighted in 1997 and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2011.

For the Almeida: Little Eyolf; Ghosts; The Dark Earth and the Light Sky; Hedda Gabler; The Judas Kiss; The Novice.

Theatre includes: Hamlet; Kafka’s Dick; Edmond (Royal Court); Comedians; Guys and Dolls; The Government Inspector; The Changeling; The Voysey Inheritance; Racing Demon; Richard III; The Night of the Iguana; The White Chameleon; Napoli Milionaria; Sweet Bird of Youth; The Invention of Love; The Absence of War; John Gabriel Borkman; King Lear; Vincent in Brixton; The Reporter; The Observer; Welcome to Thebes, Liolà (National Theatre); A Flea in Her Ear (Old Vic); The Last of the Duchess (Hampstead Theatre); The Crucible (Broadway); Skylight; Amy’s View; Mary Poppins; Private Lives (West End / Broadway); Quartermaine’s Terms; The Pajama Game (West End); Mr Foote’s Other Leg (Hampstead Theatre / West End).

Opera includes: La Traviata (Royal Opera House); Carmen; Werther, Le Nozze di Figaro (Metropolitan Opera); Manon Lescaut (Baden-Baden Festspielhaus).

Television includes: The Insurance Man; Country; Tumbledown; Suddenly Last Summer; Changing Stages; Henry IV, Parts I & II; The Dresser.

Film includes: The Ploughman’s Lunch; Iris; Stage Beauty; Notes on a Scandal; The Other Man.

Richard is the author of Utopia and Other Places, National Service, Talking Theatre and What Do I Know?

Rupert Goold

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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: Medea; The Iliad; The Merchant of Venice (also RSC); King Charles III (also West End and Broadway); 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); 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.

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