Frightening the Horses: An Interview with Neil Bartlett

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Notes

 1. See Neil Bartlett, Solo Voices: Monologues 1987–2004 (London: Oberon, 2005).

 2. Neil Bartlett, Who Was That Man? A Present for Mr. Wilde (London: Serpent's Tail, 1988).

 3. Neil Bartlett, Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall (London: Plume, 1992); Mr. Clive and Mr. Page (London: Serpent's Tail, 1996); Skin Lane (London: Serpent's Tail, 2008).

 4. The interview took place in London on 24 March 2011, and lasted several hours. The full recording and unedited transcript of the interview is available in the Live Art Development Agency Study Room.

 5. Neil Bartlett, ‘Ethyl and Lily: Speaking Your Mind’, Performance Magazine, 48 (July–August 1987), 20–26 (p. 26). This copy is available in the Live Art Development Agency's Study Room in London.

 6. Steve Rogers (1955–1988) was one of a series of editors of Performance Magazine (its subsequent editors were Rob La Frenais and Gray Watson). Rogers founded the Performance Platform (subsequently renamed the National Review of Live Art [NRLA] in 1986) at The Midland Group Arts Centre, Nottingham and served as its director from 1979 to 1981.

 7. Paul O'Grady MBE has hosted two popular programmes on terrestrial British television channels: The Paul O'Grady Show on Channel 4 from 2004 to 2009; and a nighttime celebrity chat show Paul O'Grady Live on ITV1, since 2010.

 8. The Royal Vauxhall Tavern is a popular performance space and club in South London, with a highly active schedule of nightly cabaret, performance art and music events, catering primarily to LGBT audiences.

 9. Performance + Cocktails was a short season of Live Art and performance art at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, from 24–27 August 2010, curated by Duckie's Simon Casson.

10. Bartlett co-founded the theatre company Gloria in 1988 with producer Simon Mellor, composer Nicolas Bloomfield and choreographer Leah Hausman.

11. Bartlett devised and directed Pornography: A Spectacle, an ensemble performance that was presented at London's ICA, and subsequently toured ten cities in the UK and Canada in 1983–84.

12. The Enterprise Allowance Scheme was set up by Margaret Thatcher in late 1981 to provide a weekly allowance of £40 to those setting up new businesses, in a bid to support private entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom.

13. Dame Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Taylor was a British-American film actress, co-founder of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, and a gay icon; she died of congestive heart failure on 23 March 2011. This interview took place the following day, on 24 March 2011.