Neil Bartlett - Invitations to Speculate

This book explores Neil Bartlett's groundbreaking contributions to queer cultural production in the UK. It adopts a range of critical perspectives, presenting original scholarship on Bartlett's fiction, theatre, performance, site-specific work, and adaptations, as well as more personal reflections on Bartlett's influence and legacy.

List of contents

List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
William McEvoy and Joseph Ronan
Part I. Time: Archives and history
Chapter 1. 'What if this was actually happening?' An Interview with Neil Bartlett
William McEvoy and Joseph Ronan
Chapter 2. Tell Me Who I Am: History, Anachronism, and Resemblance in the Time of AIDS
Dominic Johnson
Chapter 3. 'All of Me'
Nando Messias
Part II. Space: Sites of performance
Chapter 4. The Boys in the Back Room: Night After Night and The Disappearance Boy
Deborah Philips
Chapter 5. Mostly Glorious: Bartlett's Adaptive Work with Gloria
Michael Fry
Chapter 6. Site-specific Bartlett
William McEvoy
Chapter 7. Bartlett's 'Brechtian' Adaptations: The Plague and Orlando
Alex Watson
Part III. Self: Intimate communities
Chapter 8. Queer Ways of Coming Out in Neil Bartlett's Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall
Andrés Ibarra Cordero
Chapter 9. The Price of Queer Admission
Joseph Ronan
Chapter 10. 'Making things mean something': Allegory and Myth Making in Neil Bartlett's Skin Lane
Irralie Doel
Chapter 11. Neil Bartlett, out loud
Vincent Quinn
Index

About the author

William McEvoy is Associate Professor in Drama and English in the Faculty of Media, Arts, and Humanities, University of Sussex, UK.
Joseph Ronan is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Brighton, UK.

Summary

This book explores Neil Bartlett’s groundbreaking contributions to queer cultural production in the UK. It adopts a range of critical perspectives, presenting original scholarship on Bartlett’s fiction, theatre, performance, site-specific work, and adaptations, as well as more personal reflections on Bartlett’s influence and legacy.

Product details

• Authors: William Ronan Mcevoy
• Assisted by: William McEvoy (Editor), Joseph Ronan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032668284
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3266828-4
• No. of pages: 221
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, PERFORMING ARTS / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Direction & Production, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting, Theatre Studies, Industrial / commercial art & design, Social and cultural history, Literary theory, Performance Art, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, DRAMA / LGBTQ+, Queer Theatre and Performance;Queer Theory