Neil
Vivian Bartlett, OBE, (born January 1, 1958) is a British director, performer,
translator, and writer. He was 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.[1]
His work has garnered several awards, including the 1985 Perrier Award (as
director for Complicite, 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).[1]
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.[2]
He was appointed an
OBE in 2000 for his services to the arts.[3][4]
Bartlett's first book, Who Was That Man, showed how the gay history
of London in the 1890s affected Bartlett's life as a gay man in London in
the 1980s. His latest novel, The Disappearance Boy, was published in
London by Bloomsbury Circus in January 2014.
Bartlett's early performance work with Gloria included A Vision of
Love Revealed in Sleep, Sarrasine and Night after Night.
He also served as artistic director at the
Lyric Theatre Hammersmith from 1994 until 2004.[5]
At the Lyric he directed productions of classic British plays, foreign
classics which he translated or adapted, and a series of notable Christmas
shows. The following are some of the plays he directed and translated:
- The first English production of
Jean Genet's Splendid's
-
Kleist's Prince of Homburg and
Marivaux's La Dispute
- His adaptation of
Charles Dickens'
Oliver Twist, and
A Christmas Carol.
- Adaptation of The Servant by
Robin Maugham.
Many of Bartlett's translations of classic plays have been performed
throughout the world.
Since leaving the Lyric he has created work for leading cultural
producers including the
National Theatre in London, the Abbey in Dublin, the
Bristol Old Vic, the
Manchester Royal Exchange, the
Edinburgh International Festival, the
Manchester International Festival, the
Brighton Festival, the
Aldeburgh Festival, the
Holland Festival, the
Wellcome Foundation and
Tate Britain.
He also took part in the
Bush Theatre's 2011 project
Sixty Six Books, where he wrote a piece based upon a chapter of the
King James Bible[6]
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