Neil Bartlett (playwright)
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Neil Vivian Bartlett, OBE, (born 1958) is an award-winning British director, performer, translator, and writer. He is one of the founding members of Gloria, a production company established in 1988 to produce his work along with that of Nicolas Bloomfield, Leah Hausman and Simon Mellor. His work has garnered several awards, including the 1985 Perrier Award (for More Bigger Snacks Now), the Time Out Dance Umbrella Award (for A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep), a Writers Guild Award (for Sarrasine), a Time Out Theatre Award (for A Judgement in Stone), and the Special Jury Prize at the Cork Film Festival (for Now That It's Morning). His production of The Dispute won a Time Out Award for Best Production in the West End and the 1999 TMA Best Touring Production award. He was appointed an OBE
Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...

 in 2000 for his services to the arts.

Career

Who Was That Man shows how the gay history of London in the 1890s affects Bartlett's life as a gay man in London in the 1980s. His latest novel, Skin Lane was published in London by Serpent's Tail publishing in March 2007.

He also served as Artistic Director at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
Lyric Hammersmith
The Lyric Theatre, also known as the Lyric Hammersmith, is a theatre on King Street, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, which takes pride in its original, "groundbreaking" productions....

 from 1994 until 2004. At the Lyric he directed productions of classic plays, which he translated or adapted. The following are some of the plays he directed and translated:
  • The first English production of Jean Genet
    Jean Genet
    Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing...

    's Splendid's
  • Kleist's Prince of Homburg and Marivaux's La Dispute
  • His recent adaptation of Dickens' Oliver Twist


Many of his translations of classic plays have been performed throughout the world.

He will also be partaking in the Bush Theatre
Bush Theatre
The Bush Theatre is based in Shepherd's Bush, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It was established in 1972 above The Bush public house by Brian McDermott, and has since become one of the most celebrated new writing theatres in the world. An intimate venue renowned for its close-up...

's 2011 project Sixty Six where he has written a piece based upon a chapter of the King James Bible

Fiction

  • Who Was That Man: A Present for Mr. Oscar Wilde (1988)
  • Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall (1992)
  • Mr. Clive and Mr. Page (1996)
  • Skin Lane (2007)

  • "When the Time Comes; or, the Case of the Man Who Didn't Know" (short story)

Theatre and radio

  • More Bigger Snacks Now (1985), director for Complicité
    Complicite
    The British theatre company Complicite was founded in 1983 by Simon McBurney, Annabel Arden, and Marcello Magni. Its original name was Théâtre de Complicité. "The Company's inimitable style of visual and devised theatre [has] an emphasis on strong, corporeal, poetic and surrealist image supporting...

  • A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep (Part One) (1987)
  • The Misanthrope
    The Misanthrope
    The Misanthrope is the first EP from metal band Darkest Hour. It was released in 1996 on the defunct label Death Truck Records. It is much more hardcore orientated metalcore unlike their later releases.- Track listing :# "Vise" - 5:30...

    (1988), director for Red Shift
  • Lady Audley's Secret
    Lady Audley's Secret
    Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published in 1862. It was Braddon's most successful and well known novel. Critic John Sutherland described the work as "the most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels." The plot centers on "accidental bigamy" which...

    (1988-1989) for Gloria
  • A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep (Part Three) (1989-1990) for Gloria
  • Ariadne (1989-1990)
  • Berenice (1990) for the Royal National Theatre
    Royal National Theatre
    The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...

  • The School for Wives
    The School for Wives
    The School for Wives is a theatrical comedy written by the seventeenth century French playwright Molière and considered by some critics to be one of his finest achievements. It was first staged at the Palais Royal theatre on 26 December 1662 for the brother of the King...

    (1990) for the Derby Playhouse
    Derby Playhouse
    Derby Theatre is a theatre situated in Derby, England. Formerly known as the Derby Playhouse, it was operated by Derby Playhouse Ltd from its opening in 1975 until 2008, when the company ceased operating after a period in administration...

  • Sarrasine (1990-1991) for Gloria
  • The Avenging Woman (1991)
  • Let Them Call It Jazz (1991) for Gloria
  • Twelfth Night (1992) for the Goodman Theatre
    Goodman Theatre
    The Goodman Theatre is a professional theater company located in Chicago's Loop. A major part of Chicago theatre, it is the city's oldest currently active nonprofit theater organization...

    , Chicago
  • A Judgement in Stone (1992) for Gloria
  • The Game of Love and Chance (1992-1993) for Gloria/Cambridge Theatre Co./Royal National Theatre
  • Night After Night (Part One) (1993) musical
  • The Seven Sacraments of Nicolas Poussin
    The Seven Sacraments of Nicolas Poussin
    The Seven Sacraments of Nicolas Poussin is a play by Neil Bartlett inspired by the Seven Sacraments series of paintings by Nicolas Poussin. It was commissioned in 1997 by Artangel....

    (1998)
  • The Verger Queen or Bette's Full Service (2000)
  • Does You Good (2001)
  • Camille (2003) adaptation of The Lady of the Camellias
    The Lady of the Camellias
    The Lady of the Camellias is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, first published in 1848, and subsequently adapted for the stage. The Lady of the Camellias premiered at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris, France on February 2, 1852. The play was an instant success, and Giuseppe Verdi immediately set...

  • Improbable (2004) radio

Television

  • That's What Friends Are For (1988) television, for Channel Four
  • Where Is Love? (1988) television, for ICA/BBC2
  • Pedagogue (1988) with Stuart Marshall
  • That's How Strong My Love Is (1989) television, for Channel Four
  • Now That It's Morning (1992) television, for Channel Four/British Screen

Sources

  • Bartlett, Neil, adapter. 2003. Camille
    The Lady of the Camellias
    The Lady of the Camellias is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, first published in 1848, and subsequently adapted for the stage. The Lady of the Camellias premiered at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris, France on February 2, 1852. The play was an instant success, and Giuseppe Verdi immediately set...

    . By Alexandre Dumas fils
    Alexandre Dumas, fils
    Alexandre Dumas, fils was a French author and dramatist. He was the son of Alexandre Dumas, père, also a writer and playwright.-Biography:...

    . London: Oberon. ISBN 1840023600.
  • Bartlett, Neil. 2005. Solo Voices: Monologues 1987-2004. London: Oberon. ISBN 1840024658.
  • Burton, Peter, editor. 2008. A Casualty of War: the Arcadia Book of Gay Short Stories. London: Arcadia Books. ISBN 9781906413316.

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