DVD featuring live footage from 1993-2007.

profiles of drag lives and performances

An account of Bornstein’s transformation from heterosexual male to lesbian woman

Masculinity without men. Judith Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years.

Located in Miscellaneous Articles Folder 5A.

Interview featuring TY Jeffries and Miss Hope Springs

An ethnographic account of female impersonators, exploring the symbolic geography of drag and camp, and social organization of drag clubs.

First 17 minutes: experimental video with dolls, shoes, colour overlays etc. (content unidentified, possibly off-air recordings); then venue interior shots and Neil Bartlett in solo rehearsal or performance. Venue unidentified but possibly Battersea Arts Centre, which would make this 1987 and the earliest version of the piece. Performance section followed by music videos, film excerpts etc. (presumably recorded off-air).Part of the Neil Bartlett Collection. Donated to the British Library and the Live Art Development Agency Study Room from Neil Bartlett’s personal collection.

Documentation of performance at the National Theatre, 15 April 1993. Marivaux play produced by Gloria, translated and directed by Neil Bartlett.Part of the Neil Bartlett Collection. Donated to the British Library and the Live Art Development Agency Study Room from Neil Bartlett’s personal collection.

Documentation of 1994 performance at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.Part of the Neil Bartlett Collection. Donated to the British Library and the Live Art Development Agency Study Room from Neil Bartlett’s personal collection.

1991 production of the play Atriebeja by Latvian poetess Aspazija, created at the Kabata Theatre, Riga in 1991. Co-directed by Neil Bartlett and Banuta Rubess. Revived (including Neil Bartlett as a performer) in Toronto in 1991. This is a document of the original Riga production.Part of the Neil Bartlett Collection. Donated to the British Library and the Live Art Development Agency Study Room from Neil Bartlett’s personal collection.

By Neil Bartlett and Nicolas Bloomfield after a text by Balzac. With Bette Bourne, Leah Hausman, Beverley Klein & Fancois Testory. Filmed at the Drill Hall, London, 1989.Part of the Neil Bartlett Collection. Donated to the British Library and the Live Art Development Agency Study Room from Neil Bartlett’s personal collection.