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Headlong is thrilled to announce critically acclaimed theatre and opera director Joe Hill-Gibbins as Artistic Director, and Donna Munday as the new Chair of the company's Board of Trustees.

Today, Headlong have announced their programme for 2020/21, the final season under current Artistic Director, Jeremy Herrin.

Headlong are thrilled to announce a full cast for Faustus: That Damned Woman, a Headlong and Lyric Hammersmith Theatre Co-Production, in Association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre. 

After 7 successful years, Jeremy Herrin will step down as Artistic Director of Headlong in 2020 to pursue a career in freelance directing.

“It’s beyond language.” So speaks ex-clergyman Christopher Roulston in Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme. For McGuinness, the limitations of language are both restriction and liberation, something to be railed against as much as it is to be manipulated.

In her book Gender Trouble, Judith Butler identifies an unsettling problem at the heart of the idea of feminism. Feminism, she argues, imagines the idea of ‘women’ as a common identity that all women share and that unites them all. But where does our idea of what ‘women’ are come from?