HEADLONG

Decade

September 11th, 2001 sent shockwaves across the globe. Ten years on, a team of major writers and thinkers explore our responses to the defining event of our times.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Directed by Natalie Abrahami and using video, movement and music, the production will combine Shakespeare's original text with a thrilling, cutting-edge staging.

ENRON (West End/UK tour)

Following rave reviews and sold-out runs at Chichester Festival Theatre, the Royal Court and in the West End, ENRON is currently wowing audiences around the country as part of the UK tour.

Earthquakes in London

An all-pervasive fear of the future and a guilty pleasure in the excesses of the present drive Mike Bartlett's epic rollercoaster of a play from 1968 to 2525 and back again.

Salome

The savage power of ancient myth collides with twentieth century decadence in Oscar Wilde's astonishing verse tragedy.

Lulu

This provocative new production follows the fortunes and ultimate tragedy of a young femme-fatale.

Elektra

Director Carrie Cracknell blends movement, music and text in a haunting exploration of Sophocles' masterpiece.

ENRON (West End)

Having performed to sell-out audiences at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester and The Royal Court, ENRON transfers to the Noel Coward Theatre in January 2010.

ENRON (Broadway)

Lucy Prebble's new play ENRON will play The Broadhurst Theatre (235 W. 44th St. between 8th and Broadway).

Six Characters in Search of an Author (Australia)

This stunning play is a parable for a media obsessed age and an exhilarating exploration of how we define ourselves in the 21st Century.

ENRON

Based on real life and using music, movement and video, ENRON explores one of the most infamous scandals in financial history...

The Winter's Tale

Shakespeare's late, great romance weaves high drama and low comedy to tell a story of heartbreak, reunion and newfound hope.

Six Characters in Search of an Author (UK tour)

Following its critically acclaimed West End run in 2008, Headlong's radical re-imagining of this classic embarked on a UK tour in autumn 2009.

Medea Medea

MEDEA exists as one of the primal myths of Western civilisation - the wronged everywoman.

Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness

In 2002, an incredible manuscript was unearthed. Dated 1881, it was a record of the most spectacular, bizarre and eventful performance imaginable.

King Lear

Pete Postlethwaite returned to his theatrical roots to tackle Shakespeare's greatest role.

Six Characters in Search of an Author

...Sisters

A masterpiece of loss and longing, inertia and the impossibility of escape, Chekhov's play is deconstructed and re-imagined in this seductive theatrical experiment.

The English Game

The Nightwatchmen: an amateur London cricket team, making up for in enthusiasm what they lack in ability.

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

Between Heaven and Hell - there is another place. This place. Hope. Hope is located right over here in downtown purgatory.

Faustus (UK tour)

Set in medieval Germany and modern East London, John Faustus makes a promise which jeopardises his immortal soul.

Rough Crossings

Rough Crossings tells the heroic story of the resettlement of a group of former slaves in West Africa.

Angels in America

Divine intervention in a New York turned upside down by the chaotic energy of the 1980s and the destructive terror of AIDS.

Faustus

Heidelberg, Germany, 1509. John Faustus, doctor and scholar, pledges himself to the dark art of necromancy and vows to conjure the devil.

Restoration

18th century England and Lord Are is in need of a rich wife.

Paradise Lost

The greatest epic poem in the English language, comes vividly to life in this electrifying and highly acclaimed production