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Neil Bartlett

September 2024

  • Bette Bourne performing with the Bloolips at the Drill Hall, London, in 1980.

    Bette Bourne obituary

    Actor, activist and founder of the radical drag troupe the Bloolips whose performances influenced mainstream theatre

May 2023

  • Sacré Blue! … (Clockwise from top) Simon Fisher Turner; Neil Bartlett; Russell Tovey; Travis Alabanza; Jay Bernard; Joelle Taylor; (bottom) Derek Jarman in silhouette.

    ‘It’s Shakespeare – as important as any modern piece of work’: Derek Jarman’s Blue comes to the stage

    Russell Tovey, Simon Fisher Turner, Travis Alabanza and Neil Bartlett are teaming up to reimagine the director’s final film – a narrated meditation over a static blue screen – as a ‘thank you’ to the LGBTQ+ hero

April 2023

  • Clockwise from left: Joe Brainard, Violet LeDuc, Neil Bartlett, Quentin Crisp.

    The new LGBTQ+ lit list, chosen by writers

    From sensational memoirs to sublime poetry, Douglas Stuart, Ali Smith, Colm Tóibín and others share lesser-known books about queer life that deserve to be classics

December 2022

  • Emma Corrin as Orlando.

    Orlando review – Emma Corrin is glorious in a giddy, heartfelt show

    In Neil Bartlett’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s wild-goose chase through time, Corrin shines as the hero who falls asleep as a man and wakes as a woman

October 2022

  • Closed ranks … Nicholas Shaw (centre) as Dr Jekyll in Jekyll and Hyde.

    Jekyll and Hyde review – #MeToo transformation explores monstrous masculinity

    Neil Bartlett’s version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic has female leads laying bare the rot at the heart of a beastly boys’ club

March 2020

  • A lifelong Wildean obsession … Neil Bartlett, right, directs rehearsals for The Importance of Being Earnest.

    'I want to protect and prepare them': why student shows attract starry directors

    Three drama school productions highlight the appeal for established names in sharing passion projects with actors flexing their performance muscles

November 2019

  • Bearing witness … Neil Bartlett at Manchester’s Royal Exchange, preparing for his marathon.

    'Bring a sleeping bag!' Manchester prepares for 24-hour peace epic

    On Remembrance Sunday, a theatrical marathon will share the hopes and insights of 100 peace-workers around the UK. It’s an ode to optimism, says playwright Neil Bartlett

June 2019

  • Cocker at this year’s Primavera Sound festival.

    Jarvis Cocker to compose music for Manchester Royal Exchange's new season

    Cocker to collaborate on new Simon Stephens play, while Lucy Ellinson to play Macbeth and Neil Bartlett to stage 24-hour work on Remembrance Sunday

December 2018

  • Anna Russell-Martin, Elisa de Grey and, as Scrooge, Benny Young in the Citizens’ A Christmas Carol.

    A Christmas Carol review – a real Dickens cracker

    Sound, light and sets brilliantly convey Scrooge’s turn from miserliness to philanthropy in Neil Bartlett’s joyous adaptation

November 2018

  • Katie West as Ophelia and Maxine Peake as Hamlet

    All the women players: cross-gender Shakespeare – in pictures

    Kathryn Hunter is about to play the RSC’s first Lady Timon of Athens and next year the Globe is staging Richard II with a company of women of colour. Here’s a look back at some of the many actresses who have taken major male roles in Shakespeare’s plays

April 2017

  • Martin Turner, Joseph Alessi and Burt Caesar in The Plague, directed by Neil Bartlett.

    The Plague review – Neil Bartlett's ingenious update of Camus' chilling fable

    Bartlett asks what this 1947 allegory of Nazi occupation means today in a striking production as focused on optimism as on despair

December 2016

  • Michael Starke is among the Liverpudlian cast of The Star

    Victorians Got Talent: Liverpool rekindles its love for music hall

    Liverpool Playhouse was once home to mesmerists, acrobats and all sorts of variety acts. A new show, The Star, celebrates the artists who knew how to make the audience laugh, cry and sing along

June 2016

  • Richard Cant as Ernest Boulton and Oscar Batterham as Stella.

    Stella review – emotional hide and seek in real-life cross-dressing drama

    Neil Bartlett returns to the scandalous story of Ernest Boulton in a piece that doesn’t quite deliver emotionally but has moments when it glows brightly

May 2016

  • Joseph Fiennes stars in Ross at Chichester festival theatre

    Plan your week's theatre: top tickets

    Joseph Fiennes is in Adrian Noble’s Rattigan revival in Chichester and you can go Into the Woods at the West Yorkshire Playhouse – plus the rest of the week’s best theatre
  • Neil Bartlett

    Gender is a journey not a destination

    Neil Bartlett
    Thirty years ago, I put on a frock, crossed Leicester Square and received a death threat. That night led me to create Stella, my show about an extraordinary Victorian gender experimenter
  • King Lear, Richard III, Fluff and Anything That Gives Off Light Arts Spring Preview composite

    Summer arts preview 2016
    Curtain-raisers: the best theatre of summer 2016

    Branagh channels Olivier, Isabelle Huppert lusts after her stepson and Ralph Fiennes gets the royal hump. Meanwhile there’s magic in the air as Harry Potter grows up – and Groundhog Day is reborn as a musical

February 2016

  • The Hamilton Complex by Heptaleis, directed by Lies Pauwels, at the Unicorn.

    Theatre blog
    Teen riots and cemetery circus: London international festival of theatre 2016

    US drag artist Taylor Mac, an empathy museum and a bedtime story are all part of the lineup for the 21st Lift. What can a programme dominated by work from other countries tell us about ourselves?

January 2016

October 2015

  • David Hoyle, right, with Richard Thomas in the cabaret Merrie Hell at Soho theatre.

    Theatre blog
    Live Art: the research lab for mass culture

    Today’s debates about gender fluidity are familiar ground for the performers who have explored such subjects for years in Live Art
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