No further details, in terms of casting, theatre or dates are available yet, but producer Matthew Byam Shaw has called the work "a fascinating sword-fight of a play," and according to a report in London's Daily Mail, it is about two women -- the governor of a prison and a lifer trying to convince her that, after years behind bars, she's ready for parole. The prisoner has been involved in a violent political organization, "loosely based on a Baader-Meinhof or Weather Underground-type anarchist group," according to Byam Shaw, though it is not based on any particular individual.
Mamet was most recently represented on Broadway by a revival of his play A Life in the Theatre, and before that the premiere of Race. Other plays include American Buffalo, Speed-the-Plow, November, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Edmond, Romance and The Old Neighborhood. He is co-founder of New York's Atlantic Theater Company, of which he remains a member.
Goold is artistic director of Headlong, and an associate director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Recent credits include Earthquakes in London (National Theatre), Enron (Chichester, Royal Court, West End and briefly Broadway), Macbeth (Chichester, West End and Broadway, starring Patrick Stewart in the title role, which was subsequently filmed and recently broadcast on PBS) and Turandot (English National Opera).