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Biography

Neil Bartlett, O.B.E. (born 1958) is one of Britain's most renowned and innovative theatre artists. He is a director, performer, translator, and writer. His novels include Who Was That Man: A Present for Mr. Oscar Wilde (1988), Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall (1992), and Mr. Clive and Mr. Page (1996). 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 most recent novel "Skin Lane" is published by Serpent's Tail.
He also served as Artistic Director at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith 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'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.


Bibliography (novels)

2007 - Skin Lane
1996 - Mr. Clive and Mr. Page (USA:The House on Brooke Street)
1990 - Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall
1988 - Who Was That Man?

Selected Reviews:

"Skin Lane is a fiendishly taut little psycho-shocker that recalls Simenon at his most hardboiled and Highsmith at her creepiest. It made the hairs rise on the back of my neck and I still can't get them down again." - Will Self.

Mr Clive & Mr Page
"A marvellous evocation of 1920's London..Compassionate, gentle, violent dynamic and a glorious page-turner" - Ruth Rendell
"Harrowingly, weirdly sexy; compulsively readable" - Edmund White

Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall
"Tender, brutal, explicit,erotic and moving...a fictional debut of staggering assurance and ability" - Gay Times
"Profoundly moving and enriching. Bartlett has achieved what is almost impossible; he has written a novel about happy, successful love." - The Glasgow Herald


Other Resources

Read David Llewellyn's review of Skin Lane <here>
Author homepage: www.neil-bartlett.com


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