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Queer Voices Neil Bartlett

Queer Voices By Neil Bartlett

Queer Voices by Neil Bartlett


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Summary

A collection of radical queer performance texts from visionary theatre-maker Neil Bartlett. Effortlessly straddling the political and the personal, these highly theatrical monologues display a searing intelligence from a unique voice in the British counterculture.

Queer Voices Summary

Queer Voices by Neil Bartlett

Although his mainstream career has recently included majorwork for the RSC and the National, the five new pieces collected here show just how close playwright and director Neil Bartlett has stayed to the radical queer cultural roots that first brought him to prominence in the early 1980s. Commissioned to be performed in spaces as various as South Londons notorious Vauxhall Tavern, Brightons Theatre Royal and the pulpit of Westminster Abbey, these hit-and-run dramatic monologues bring all of his trademark wit and passion to bear on the issues that run throughout his work the power of love, and the necessity for anger. Together, they make up a trenchantly personal take on what it feels like to have spent nearly thirty years standing up and speaking ones mind. The collection also includes his 2011 adaptation of Oscar Wildes The Remarkable Rocket, which uses the diamond-sharp text of one of Wildes childrens stories as the springboard for a haunting meditation on the enduring power of Wilde to inspire, dazzle and move. A follow on from his earlier collection Solo Voices, this new collection is vivid, fierce and tender, with five provocative and highly actable new works from one of British theatres most idiosyncratic voices. www.neil-bartlett.com

About Neil Bartlett

Neil Bartlett is one of his generation's most respected and innovative theatre directors. His highly individual translations of French and German classical theatre and characteristically theatrical adaptations of Dickens (most of which were originated while he was Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith in London) have been played around the world. His plays have premiered at the Royal Court, at the Manchester International Festival and at the National Theatre in London.

Table of Contents

"Introduction 7 Helpless (2007) 11 Sleeping Beauty (2010) 19 Oscar Wilde's The Remarkable Rocket (for Alfonso) (2011) 27 The Book of Numbers (2011) 53 What Can You Do? (2012) 63"

Additional information

GOR007619569
9781849431668
1849431663
Queer Voices by Neil Bartlett
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2012-04-01
74
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