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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
André s 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
