Holly Race Roughan
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Holly Race Roughan
The Stage: Holly Race Roughan on directing HENRY V at the Globe
Holly is the Artistic Director of Headlong; the award winning touring company best known for People, Places & Things, Best of Enemies, 1984 and Enron. Prior roles include Associate Artistic Director at Headlong and Associate Director at Kestrel; a theatre company that works in the criminal justice system. Holly specialises in new writing and reimagined classics. She has directed in the US and throughout the UK, and for screen with the BBC.
Praise for her recent production of A View From the Bridge with Headlong:
★★★★ The Stage 'suffocatingly tense'
★★★★ The Guardian ‘[Race Roughan] plays the drama like an accordion… a fresh look at an elemental tragedy’
★★★★ Whats On Stage ‘Disturbing and gripping, it’s a view you can’t look away from’
Praise for her recent production of Henry V at Shakespeare’s Globe:
★★★★ The Guardian 'a dynamic and finely tuned production'
★★★★ The Observer ‘Extraordinary, intimate, intense… What a feat.’
★★★★ The Telegraph ‘Terrific… Fast, slick, startlingly focused and fresh’
★★★★ Evening Standard ‘Fresh, vivid, intense… speaks with new and unusual clarity’
★★★★ Financial Times 'Revealing and intelligent'
★★★★ WhatsOnStage ‘seamlessly blends classical and contemporary'