Anthony Neilson
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Anthony Neilson (born 1967, Edinburgh) is a Scottish playwright and director. He is known for his collaborative way of writing and workshopping his plays. Much of his work is characterised by the exploration of sex and violence.
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Born | 1967 (age 56–57) Edinburgh, Scotland |
Occupation | Playwright, theatre director, screenwriter |
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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.[1] He has been credited with coining the phrase "in-your-face theatre"[2] but has rejected the label and instead describes his work in this style as “'experiential' theatre”.[3]
Experimenting with various other forms of theatre, Neilson is also recognised for creating non-naturalistic plays that utilise elements of absurdist and expressionist storytelling to depict the interior landscape of their characters.[3] He has described such theatre as "psycho-absurdism".[4]