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Heathcote Williams

August 2020

  • Charlie Gilmour standing in a sunlit wheat field

    ‘One spring morning my dad vanished’: the son of poet Heathcote Williams looks back

    Just after becoming a new father, the author and dramatist abandoned his family. Charlie Gilmour, his son, tries to solve the riddle of the man he never really knew

July 2017

  • For Heathcote Williams the 1970s consisted of days of, in his words, ‘nameless wildness’.

    Letter: Heathcote Williams obituary

    Richard Adams writes: I first met Heathcote Williams in the early 1970s when he asked me to design the poster and programme for a touring production of his play AC/DC
  • Heathcote Williams in 1995.

    Letter: Heathcote Williams obituary

    While Heathcote Williams was indeed primarily committed to the written word, he was equally and superlatively concerned with both the performed, and even the painted word

    • Letter: Heathcote Williams obituary

    • Letter: Heathcote Williams obituary

    • Heathcote Williams, radical poet, playwright and actor, dies aged 75

April 2017

  • The Ruff Tuff Cream Puff Estate Agency, about the founding of an estate agent for the homeless in the 1970s, presented by Cardboard Citizens at the Bunker, London.

    Home Truths review – a history of the housing crisis in nine plays

    The homeless people’s theatre company Cardboard Citizens takes a long look at housing, from Victorian slum life and 70s squatting to present day inequalities

May 2016

  • Heathcote Williams

    Heathcote Williams: 'Pinter was slightly intimidating – he paused quite a lot'

    As his play The Local Stigmatic is revived 50 years after its debut, the reclusive playwright looks back at the London underworld, the rise of celebrity culture and the debt he owes to Harold Pinter

February 2016

  • William Gaskill

    William Gaskill, former artistic director of the Royal Court, dies aged 85

    Peter Gill and Vicky Featherstone pay tribute to a ‘brilliant, uncompromising’ director who was celebrated for his productions of Bond and Brecht – and for battling stage censorship

March 2015

  • Polly Samson

    A life in ...
    Polly Samson: ‘It’s the most gleeful sort of writing there is’

    The books interview: The novelist talks about her recent ‘horrible times’, her astonishing family history and writing lyrics for her husband David Gilmour

March 2013

  • Keith Allen

    Portrait of the artist
    Keith Allen, actor – portrait of the artist

    Actor Keith Allen talks about his kids Lily and Alfie, his love of Shelley and why he is no coward

December 2012

  • 1960s Family Father Mother Two Sons Sitting By Christmas Tree In Living Room Reading A Book

    Your books of the year

    From history to fiction, politics to poetry, Guardian readers pick their favourite reads of 2012

November 2010

  • polly samson

    Polly Samson: 'Don't call me Mrs Gilmour'

    Polly Samson's novels and short stories have had rave reviews, but will she ever escape her rock-star husband's shadow? By Carole Cadwalladr

July 2009

  • New Production 'Tusk Tusk' at The Royal Court Theatre in London

    The Royal Court Upstairs marks 40 years of scaling new heights

    This tiny, risk-taking stage gave many of our best dramatists their big break. Michael Billington wishes the Royal Court Upstairs a happy birthday

May 2009

  • John Michell

    Obituary: Champion of New Age ideas and author of the counterculture classic The View Over Atlantis

October 2008

  • Helen Mirren

    Helen Mirren leads the cast of Taymor's Tempest

  • Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan or, The Whale

    Top 10s
    Philip Hoare's top 10 whale tales

October 2003

  • Figgis with attitude

    As a director he is both experimental and successful. Now Mike Figgis hopes to stay on the cutting edge in print and in the gallery.

June 1999

  • Mad then and mad now: AC/DC by Heathcote Williams

    The National Theatre’s current Platform series on the century’s 100 best plays has so far turned up most of the usual suspects. But tonight it reaches one of the great forgotten dramas of the past 30 years: Heathcote Williams’ AC/DC. This anarchic piece - an award-winning success at the Royal Court’s Theatre Upstairs in 1970 - attacks the media’s influence with such extraordinary viciousness that it seems far more relevant now, in our multi-channelled, spin-doctored, news-obsessed world, than when it was first written.
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