A Modern Classics edition of Mike Bartlett's seminal play, Cock, with an introduction by Mark O'Thomas.
Mike Barlett's debut, My Child (Royal Court, May 2007)
saw him hailed by The Stage as 'one of the most exciting new
talents to emerge in recent times'. He is a winner of the Old Vic
New Voices Award for Artefacts (Bush Theatre). In 2009, his play
Cock won the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an
Affiliate Theatre, while Contractions was nominated for the TMA
Best New Play award. Bartlett was Pearson Playwright in Residence
at the Royal Court in 2007, and is currently Associate Playwright
at Paines Plough. He has also written seven plays for the radio,
including Not Talking for which he won the Writer's Guild
Tinniswood and Imison prizes.
Mark O’Thomas is Professor of Theatre & Performance at
Newcastle University.
A smart, prickly and rewarding view of sexual and emotional
confusion . . . The writing is lubricious, sometimes grubby and in
places savagely unpleasant. But it has a wounding authenticity. We
laugh nervously, aware of its precision.
*Evening Standard*
Mike Bartlett has proved a devastatingly astute observer of adults
behaving badly and this latest work is no exception . . . He is
mercilessly accurate, wickedly funny and strangely touching.
*Financial Times*
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