Neil Bartlett

Guest MC

Neil was guest MC for the NRLA 2010 at the Tramway venue. Neil can be seen in some of the video documentation of events and he features in podcast #six

From the original Festival website:
NEIL BARTLETT performed as the Mistress Of Ceremonies at the National Review of Live Art in its Nottingham, London and Glasgow incarnations, from 1986 to 1990. His live work since then has included controversial solo performance, large-scale site-specific work in venues ranging from derelict warehouses to Southwark Cathedral, thirteen original pieces of performance and music theatre with GLORIA (1988-1998), thirty-one theatre shows at the Lyric Hammersmith (where he was Artistic Director from 1994 to 2005), and (more recently) productions for The American Repertory Theatre in Boston, the Brighton Festival, the RSC, The Snape Maltings in Aldeburgh, The Abbey in Dublin and the Manchester International Festival – where he recently turned the Manchester Royal Exchange into a working Bingo Hall for his piece Everybody Loves A Winner, created with Simon Deacon and Struan Leslie. He still performs – most recently at the Vauxhall Tavern for World AIDS Day and at the National Portrait Gallery as part of their “Iconic” series. His next original piece will be a collaboration with the South African Handspring company and designer and visual artist Rae Smith (creators of Warhorse) for the National Theatre in London in the autumn of 2010. Despite all that ( and three novels, including the 2007 Costa Award-nominated Skin Lane), the heels he will be wearing at the 2010 National Review will be the same ones he wore in 1986.

…and since 2010; Neil has kept on making art happen in all sorts of places. Highlights have included performance work at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, at Tate Britain and in HMP Reading, where he delivered Oscar Wilde’s text “De Profundis ” in an uninterrupted 6-hour tour-de-force solo reading. Recent theatre work has included collaborations with producers ranging from the Edinburgh International Festival to the Arcola in East London – and – most recently – his biggest piece of live work ever, a 48-performer, 24-hour, 200,000-word-long marathon act of witness called 24 HOURS OF PEACE, created at the Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre for Remembrance Sunday 2019 and broadcast live around the world.

Full documentation on all of Neil’s current and past work can be found at: neil-bartlett.com

24 HOURS OF PEACE has gone live and is permanently available via Resonance FM. Find out more right here

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From the original Festival website: NEIL BARTLETT performed as the Mistress Of Ceremonies at the National Review of Live Art in its Nottingham, London and Glasgow incarnations, from 1986 to 1990. His live work since then has included controversial solo performance, large-scale site-specific work in venues ranging from derelict warehouses to Southwark Cathedral, thirteen original pieces of performance and music theatre with GLORIA (1988-1998), thirty-one theatre shows at the Lyric Hammersmith (where he was Artistic Director from 1994 to 2005), and (more recently) productions for The American Repertory Theatre in Boston, the Brighton Festival, the RSC, The Snape Maltings in Aldeburgh, The Abbey in Dublin and the Manchester International Festival – where he recently turned the Manchester Royal Exchange into a working Bingo Hall for his piece Everybody Loves A Winner, created with Simon Deacon and Struan Leslie. He still performs – most recently at the Vauxhall Tavern for World AIDS Day and at the National Portrait Gallery as part of their “Iconic” series. His next original piece will be a collaboration with the South African Handspring company and designer and visual artist Rae Smith (creators of Warhorse) for the National Theatre in London in the autumn of 2010. Despite all that ( and three novels, including the 2007 Costa Award-nominated Skin Lane), the heels he will be wearing at the 2010 National Review will be the same ones he wore in 1986. Documentation of Neil’s current and past work can be found at neil-bartlett.com.