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Neil Bartlett

“I've always done the impossible”
Big InterviewsDec 1, 2022Writer and director
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As Neil Bartlett’s stage adaption of Virginia Woolf’s gender-fluid masterpiece Orlando opens, the writer and director discusses what he’s learnt, struggled against and been liberated by in a 40-year career

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