COCK by Mike Bartlett
The Play
“I suppose I like both but that’s okay isn’t it that’s okay?”
John doesn’t know who he is. All he knows is that he has to distance himself from his toxic relationship with his long time boyfriend, M. When he meets W, he finds himself being sexually attracted to a woman for the very first time. The ensuing love triangle pulls and confuses John beyond all measure. “I suppose I like both but that’s okay isn’t it that’s okay?” Who is John? What is he? And what will his decision be? Mike Bartlett’s sharp, witty, sometimes tragic, oftentimes comic play has been captivating and intriguing audiences across the English speaking world for over a decade. The actors are metaphorically laid bare on stage. Having no props or set to rely on, the intense comedic drama and inner turmoil of the characters becomes the sole focus of this brilliantly written piece of theatre… perfectly capturing one side of the sexual Zeitgeist.
Mike Bartlett
Mike Bartlett is a multi-award-winning writer for both stage and screen.
Theatre includes: Scandaltown (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre) The 47th (The Old Vic); Cock (The Ambassadors’ Theatre/Royal Court); Mrs Delgado (Arts at the Old Fire Station/Theatre Royal Bath/Oxford Playhouse); Albion, Game (Almeida); Snowflake (Arts at the Old Fire Station); Wild(Hampstead Theatre); King Charles III (Almeida Theatre/Wyndham’s Theatre/Music Box Theatre, New York); An Intervention (Paines Plough/Watford); Bull (Sheffield Theatres/Off Broadway/Young Vic); Medea (Headlong/Glasgow Citizens/Watford/Warwick); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre/Gielgud Theatre); 13 (Royal Court); Decade (Headlong); Earthquakes in London (Headlong, National Theatre); Love, Love, Love (Paines Plough / Plymouth Theatre Royal/Royal Court/Roundabout Theatre Company, New York/Lyric Hammersmith Theatre);Contractions (Royal Court/Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); My Child (Royal Court); Artefacts (Bush Theatre/ Nabokov);
Television includes: Life, Doctor Foster SE2, King Charles III, Doctor Foster SE1 (Drama Republic/BBC); Sticks and Stones, Trauma (Tall Story Pictures/ITV); Press (Lookout Point/BBC).