Anthony Neilson

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Anthony Neilson


Born
Edinburgh, Scotland
Genre
Drama


Anthony Neilson (born 1967) is a Scottish playwright and director. He is known for his collabo rative way of writing and workshopping his plays. Much of his work is characterised by the exploration of sex and violence.

Neilson has been cited as a key figure of In-yer-face theatre, a term used to characterise new plays with a confrontational style and sensibility that emerged in British theatre during the 1990s. He has been credited with coining the phrase "in-your-face theatre" but has rejected the label and instead describes his work as “'experiential' theatre”. ...more

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Average rating: 3.87 · 619 ratings · 54 reviews · 28 distinct works • Similar authors
The Wonderful World of Diss...
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Wonderful World of Dissocia...
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Plays 1: Normal / Penetrato...
3.98 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions
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Stitching
3.69 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions
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The Lying Kind
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Realism
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The Censor
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Normal
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Plays 2: Edward Gant's Amaz...
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“There is no place for innocence in this world.”
― Anthony Neilson, Neilson Plays:1: Normal; Penetrator; Year of the Family; Night Before Christmas; Censor
tags: innocence, innocence-lost, peter-kurten, serial-killer
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“You choose to believe that I am insane
because you choose not to believe in evil”
― Anthony Neilson, Plays 1: Normal / Penetrator / Year of the Family / The Night Before Christmas / The Censor
tags: evil, insanity
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“It's a simple question;
Do we bear monsters?
Or do we create them?”
― Anthony Neilson, Neilson Plays:1: Normal; Penetrator; Year of the Family; Night Before Christmas; Censor
tags: innocence, innocence-lost, peter-kurten, serial-killer
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