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Neil Bartlett makes work as a director, author, deviser, translator, adaptor and performer. Over the last twenty-five years his work has included controversial solo and large-scale performance pieces as well as major productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Opera North, the National and the Royal Court in London, the Traverse in Edinburgh, the American Repertory Theatre in Boston , the Goodman in Chicago , the Abbey in Dublin, the Manchester International Festival and the Aldeburgh Festival. Meanwhile, his first book, published in 1988, was a pioneering reassessment of Oscar Wilde ; since then he has also written three acclaimed novels, the most recent of which,SkinLane, was longlisted for the Costa Award. In 1994 he was appointed Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith in London ; having left the Lyric in 2004 to resume his freelance career, he has continued to break new ground both as a maker of original pieces, as a director of classic heatre and of opera ,and as an author ….
Sleeping Beauty
A performance piece by Neil Bartlett
The Vauxhall Tavern, 2010
 The Turn of the Screw Aldeburgh 2009 |  Or You Could Kiss Me National Theatre 2010 With Handspring Theatre Company |  The Girl I Left Behind Me with Jessica Walker Opera North at the Barbican, 2011 |
RECENT WORK
OR YOU COULD KISS ME - a new play by Neil Bartlett and Handspring Theatre Company( the creators of "Warhorse"). Written and directed by Neil Bartlett ; the Cottesloe, National Theatre , London, 2010.
FOR ALFONSO - a new theatre piece after Wilde's "The Remarkable Rocket", with Bette Bourne, Guy Henry and Maggie Steed ; Theatre Royal, Brighton as part of the 2011 Brighton Festival. Written and staged by Neil Bartlett.
THE MADNESS OF AN EXTRAORDINARY PLAN - a prologue to Wagner's Die Walkure, staged by Neil Bartlett, created with Gerard McBurney, Mark Elder and The Halle Orchestra for the Manchester International Festival 2011. With Roger Allam, Deborah Findlay and Sara Kestelman.
THE QUEEN OF SPADES, Tchaikovksy ,directed by Neil Bartlett . With Jeff Lloyd Roberts, Orla Boylan and Josephine Barstow. For Opera North in Leeds ; transferred to The Barbican, London in November 2011.
THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME, devised and directed by Neil Bartlett; a one-woman homage to the male impersonators of the Music Hall, with soprano Jessica Walker ; also at the Barbican ( in the Pit) in November 2011.
AND IN 2012...
New projects for both the Brighton Festival and the Dublin Theatre Festival.