Rupert Goold is to direct the world premiere of a new David Mamet play in London this autumn.
Entitled The Anarchist, the new work is the third of American playwright Mamet’s plays to premiere in London, following the Pulitzer Prize-winning Glengarry Glen Ross in 1983 and The Cryptogram in 1994.
In addition to those, Mamet’s plays include American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity In Chicago, Oleanna and Speed-The Plow, which was revived at the Old Vic in 2008. He is also the screenwriter of films Wag The Dog, The Postman Always Rings Twice and House Of Games, which was adapted for the Almeida stage by Richard Bean last autumn.
Goold is the Artistic Director of Headlong theatre company and a two-times Olivier-winning director whose productions include The Tempest for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Macbeth at the Gielgud theatre – for which he won the 2008 Best Director Olivier Award – Time And The Conways and Earthquakes In London at the National Theatre, No Man’s Land and Six Characters In Search Of An Author in the West End and Enron at the Royal Court and Noël Coward theatre, for which he collected his second Olivier Award in 2010.
Dates, venue, plot and casting for The Anarchist are yet to be confirmed, though the production is slated for the autumn.
Before then, a double-bill of Mamet’s plays Lakeboat and Prairie Du Chien will play at Dalston’s Arcola theatre later this month in a production directed by former Donmar Warehouse assistant director Abbey Wright.
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