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Neil Bartlett "Sing out! Sing out Louise!!"
Goldsmiths Department of Theatre and Performance
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Neil Bartlett
Sing out! Sing out Louise!!
22 February 2012 - 6.15pm
Neil Bartlett is a theatre artist, published writer and activist who has helped shape new theatre in the UK since the 1980s. He has worked with Simon McBurney with whom he appeared at the first London International Festival of Theatre in 1981. He has directed for Complicite on More Bigger Snacks Now, the show that won the company the Perrier Award and first brought them to national attention.
As the Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith (1994-2004) he transformed the previously run-down venue into one of the most respected theatres in London, combining an eclectic and consistently challenging programme, a radical pricing policy and the work of a pioneering education department to slowly build a genuinely diverse audience. The range of his directing work at Hammersmith deliberately confounded the categories of the experimental and the mainstream. He also invited leading “new theatre” companies such as Kneehigh, Frantic Assembly, Shared Experience and Tamasha to share the main stage with his own work. In recognition of this work at the Lyric, he was awarded the O.B.E. in 2000.
Since 2004, he has resumed his career as an independent theatre-maker and freelance director, creating work for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the American Repertory Theatre, The Abbey in Dublin, the Aldeburgh Festival, the Brighton Festival, the Manchester International Festival and the Royal Vauxhall Tavern - amongst others. In 2008 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Brookes University Oxford in recognition of his body of work and of his pioneering and continuing commitment to gay culture and civil rights.
The event takes place in the George Wood Theatre, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, Lewisham Way, SE14 6NW, at 6.15pm, hosted by Anna Furse.
To book a place, sign up on the board outside the theatre.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 22 Feb 2012 | 6:15pm - 8:00pm |
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