Anthony Neilson

Anthony Neilson
Anthony Neilson (b. 1967, Edinburgh) is a Scottish playwright and director. His breakthrough show Normal: The Dusseldorf Ripper was produced at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival in 1991. Other shows include The Wonderful World of Dissocia (2004), Realism (2006) and Orson Welles in the Land of the Peas (2010). He also took part in the Bush Theatre's Sixty Six in 2011.Perform Anthony Neilson
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A darkly comic exploration of the final days of Peter Kurten - aka the Dusseldorf Ripper - who was executed for murdering men, women and children in pre-war Germany. Wehner, a naive young lawyer, decides to plead insanity for his client but comes to the startling conclusion that he is worryingly san…
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"This superbly crafted play thrusts in the male psyche with a rigour and insight which is by turns hilarious and horrific but always compulsive." - Glasgow Herald
"The explosion of violence towards the end is one of the most nail-bitin…
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The Night Before Christmas
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The Night Before Christmas
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Two men with a London warehouse full of mostly legal merchandise discover that a fellow in an elf suit has broken in, but is he a real Christmas elf? A quick and funny comedy which ultimately has moments of real heart.…
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