Headlong Theatre

Headlong is one of the most ambitious and exciting theatre companies in the UK, creating exhilarating contemporary theatre: a provocative mix of innovative new writing, reimagined classics and influential 20th century plays that illuminate our world. Headlong makes bold, ground-breaking productions with some of the UK’s finest artists. They take these industry-leading, award-winning shows around the country and beyond, in theatres and online, attracting new audiences of all ages and backgrounds. They engage as deeply as they can with these communities, which helps them become better at what they do. In 2020 and 2021, during an unparalleled period of global uncertainty, Headlong partnered with Century Films and BBC Arts to present Unprecedented, a series of critically acclaimed digital plays responding to the radical way that the world changed when the first lockdown was announced on the 23 March 2020. Previous Headlong productions include After Life, People Places and Things, Junkyard, The Nether, Pygmalion, This House, Richard III and Labour of Love.