An all-pervasive fear of the future and a guilty pleasure in the excesses of the present drive Mike Bartlett's epic rollercoaster of a play from 1968 to 2525 and back again.
Earthquakes in London includes burlesque strip shows, bad dreams, social breakdown, population explosion, worldwide paranoia. It is a fast and furious metropolitan crash of people, scenes and decades, as three sisters attempt to navigate their dislocated lives and loves, while their dysfunctional father, a brilliant scientist, predicts global catastrophe.
Mike Bartlett's contemporary and directed...
An all-pervasive fear of the future and a guilty pleasure in the excesses of the present drive Mike Bartlett's epic rollercoaster of a play from 19...
A touching, funny play about what happens when you hate your best friend. One of them went on the anti-war protest, shouted their lungs out, then got horrendously and staggeringly drunk. The other stayed at home, watched TV for a bit, and thought about the future. An Intervention premiered at the Watford Palace Theatre in April 2014, in a co-production with Paines Plough. -Engaged, entertaining and forthright... not only politically engaged but also fiercely uncompromising in its mission to entertain.- - Exeunt Magazine -Incisive, intimate, closely focused... has...
A touching, funny play about what happens when you hate your best friend. One of them went on the anti-war protest, shouted their lungs out, then ...
Winner, 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Play Winner, 2015 London Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play "Queen Elizabeth II is dead. After a lifetime of waiting, her son ascends the throne. A future of power. But how to rule?" Mike Bartlett's controversial "future history play" explores the people beneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain s most famous family. Drawing on the style and structure of a Shakespearean history play, "King Charles III" opened at London s Almeida Theatre, directed by its Artistic Director Rupert Goold, in...
Winner, 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Play Winner, 2015 London Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play "Queen Elizabeth II is dead. After a l...
A razor-sharp play about the fine line between office politics and playground bullying, Bull offers ringside seats as three employees fight to keep their jobs. Mike Bartlett's acid-tongued play opened at the Young Vic, London, in 2015. It was originally performed at the Crucible Studio Theatre Sheffield in 2013, and was subsequently produced Off-Broadway in New York.
A razor-sharp play about the fine line between office politics and playground bullying, Bull offers ringside seats as three employees fight to ...
1967. Kenneth and Sandra know the world is changing. And they want some of it.
Love, Love, Love takes on the baby boomer generation as it retires, and finds it full of trouble. Smoking, drinking, affectionate and paranoid, one couple journeys forty-years from initial burst to full bloom. The play follows their idealistic teenage years in the 1960s to their stint as a married family unit before finally divorced and, although disintegrated, free from acrimony. Their children, on the other hand, bitterly rail against their parents' irresponsibility and their relaxed,...
1967. Kenneth and Sandra know the world is changing. And they want some of it.
Love, Love, Love takes on the baby boomer genera...
But that's what this is, isn't it? The ultimate bitch fight.
When John takes a break from his boyfriend, his accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides there is only one way to straighten this out . . .
Mike Bartlett's metrosexual play about love and longing provides us with questions of who we are and who we want to be. John's refusal to fix his identity disturbs and disrupts the lives of those around him in this contemporary tale of sex without nudity and struggle without violence. Mike Bartlett's punchy story takes a...
But that's what this is, isn't it? The ultimate bitch fight.
When John takes a break from his boyfriend, his accidentally meets the gi...
Bartlett's complete scripts for his superb television drama series, winner of Best New Drama at the 2016 National Television Awards. Doctor Gemma Foster is a woman seemingly in control . . . but her life is about to explode. Suspecting her husband of having an affair, Gemma throws herself into an investigation that will propel her, her family, and her patients into chaos.
Bartlett's complete scripts for his superb television drama series, winner of Best New Drama at the 2016 National Television Awards. Doctor Gemma F...
In the ruins of a garden in rural England, in a house which was once a home, one woman searches for seeds of hope. Albion is a new play by Mike Bartlett, premiering at the Almeida Theatre, London, in October 2017 in a production directed by Rupert Goold.
In the ruins of a garden in rural England, in a house which was once a home, one woman searches for seeds of hope. Albion is a new play by Mike Bartle...
`Christmas - isn't that when they come home?' Andy's 43. He loves nostalgic television, pints down the pub, and listening to the whole album from beginning to end. His daughter Maya is 21, wears good shoes, likes good arguments, and has a secret plan to bring down the government. The trouble is, three years ago Maya left home, and they haven't spoken since. But this Christmas, she might be coming back. Andy knows she's going to stay. Maya knows she's not. Full of the warmth, wit and heartbreak of Christmas, Snowflake is an epic story about generational conflict, fathers and...
`Christmas - isn't that when they come home?' Andy's 43. He loves nostalgic television, pints down the pub, and listening to the whole album from b...
