Documentation of 1998 performance at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. Devised and directed by Neil Bartlett. Music by Benjamin Britten. With Toby Spence (tenor).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.

In 1987 Neil Bartlett used the London International Festival of Theatre’s decision to bring drag performer Ethyl Eichelberger to the ICA as a motive to visit her in New York and talk to her. Then he came back to London and repeated the questions he’d put to Ethyl to Lily Savage, queen of the London drag scene. They discuss their approaches to drag and their completely different traditions and cultures.

This item can be found in the Miscellaneous Article Folder number 4
This item is referenced in the SPILL study boxes Study Room Guide, catalogue no. P2012

Part of the Trashing Performance programme – the second year of Performance Matters – 25-29th October 2011.

Addresses the multi-layered issue of camp, whose inexhaustible breadth of reference and theoretical relevance to the issues taken up by academic research in recent years have made it one of the most salient and challenging issues on the contemporary critical stage.

Collected for the first time in print, over a decade of texts from one of British theatre’s fiercest voices, documenting the extraordinary site-specific solo performances which have run parallel to Bartlett’s work as a mainstream director.

Documentation of Performance and Cocktails, 26 August 2010 at Royal Vauxhall Tavern

7.30pm DJ Father Cloth
Hostess: Amy Lame
Toilet Attendent: Harold Offeh
8.35pm Dominic Johnson: Departure
Wendy Houstoun: Starbucked
Helena Hunter: The Other Room
9.10pm DJ Father Cloth
9.30pm Rajni Shah: Song of Letters
Roy Kerr: In Third Place
Special Guest Kira O’Reilly
9.55pm DJ Father Cloth
10.10pm H. Plewis: Rom Dot Com
Mitch & Parry: Oceans Apart
Neil Bartlett: Sleeping Beauty
10.40pm show ends – DJ Father Cloth
11.30pm Last Orders

Documentation of Performance and Cocktails, 26 August 2010 at Royal Vauxhall Tavern

7.30pm DJ Father Cloth
Hostess: Amy Lame
Toilet Attendent: Harold Offeh
8.35pm Dominic Johnson: Departure
Wendy Houstoun: Starbucked
Helena Hunter: The Other Room
9.10pm DJ Father Cloth
9.30pm Rajni Shah: Song of Letters
Roy Kerr: In Third Place
Special Guest Kira O’Reilly
9.55pm DJ Father Cloth
10.10pm H. Plewis: Rom Dot Com
Mitch & Parry: Oceans Apart
Neil Bartlett: Sleeping Beauty
10.40pm show ends – DJ Father Cloth
11.30pm Last Orders

Documentation of Performance and Cocktails, 26 August 2010 at Royal Vauxhall Tavern

7.30pm DJ Father Cloth
Hostess: Amy Lame
Toilet Attendent: Harold Offeh
8.35pm Dominic Johnson: Departure
Wendy Houstoun: Starbucked
Helena Hunter: The Other Room
9.10pm DJ Father Cloth
9.30pm Rajni Shah: Song of Letters
Roy Kerr: In Third Place
Special Guest Kira O’Reilly
9.55pm DJ Father Cloth
10.10pm H. Plewis: Rom Dot Com
Mitch & Parry: Oceans Apart
Neil Bartlett: Sleeping Beauty
10.40pm show ends – DJ Father Cloth
11.30pm Last Orders

A collection of case studies, interviews and essays which explores the ways in which contemporary theatre is changing through new relationship between mainstream venues and experimental practices. 108 pages, 16 black and white photographs, 12cm x 16.5cm. This item is referenced in the Dreams for an Institution Guide (P2313).