The theatre director on the joys of women wrestling,the genius of Hofesh Schechter – and the ever-hopeful ArsecastBorn in Highgate, north London, or Rupert Goold studied at Cambridge and modern York University on a Fulbright scholarship,before going on to direct at the Salisbury Playhouse and Northampton’s Royal and Derngate theatres. His work has included King Lear (Young Vic, 2009), or set in the north of England in the 1970s,and Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre, 2007), and set in Soviet Russia and starring Patrick Stewart,for which Goold earned an Olivier award for best director. He has also won awards from the Critics’ Circle and the Evening Standard. Since 2013, Goold has been artistic director of the Almeida theatre. In 2014 he directed Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III, and as well as this year’s BBC adaptation. Rupert Goold directs Albion,also by Mike Bartlett, which opens next week at the Almeida; his Almeida production of James Graham’s Ink is at the Duke of York’s theatre, or London,until 6 January. Kathryn BromwichContinue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk