The Theatre of Anthony Neilson

Trish Reid is Deputy Head of the School of Performance and Screen Studies at Kingston University, London, UK. She is the author of Theatre & Scotland (2012), and has contributed chapters to The Suspect Culture Book (2013); Modern British Playwriting the 1990s (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2012) and The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama (2011).

Acknowledgements
1. INTRODUCTION: NEILSON IN CONTEXT
2. PART I CRITICAL SURVEY
a. Relationship plays:
i. Normal
ii. Penetrator
iii. The Censor
iv. Stitching
b. Experiments in form
i. Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness
ii. The Wonderful World of Dissocia
iii. Realism
iv. Relocated
v. Narrative
c. Seasonal Entertainments and plays for young people
i. Home Edinburgh and The Séance
ii. The Night Before Christmas
iii. The Lying Kind
iv. God in Ruins
v. Get Santa!
d. Neilson as Director
i. The Death of Klinghoffer (EIF 2005)
ii. Caledonia (NTS 2010)
iii. Marat Sade (RSC 2011)
3. PART II PERSPECTIVES
a. Anthony Neilson in Conversation
b. Critical
i. Realism: Unstable Realities and Mental Health, by Anna Harpin (University of Warwick, UK)
ii. Neilson in Rehearsal, by Gary Cassidy (University of Reading, UK)
c. Perspectives on Neilson
i. Dominic Cooke
ii. Vicky Featherstone
iii. Michael Boyd
4. CONCLUSION
5. RESOURCES
a. Chronology of works
b. Glossary of critical terms
c. Further reading
Endnotes
Index