Mike Bartlett
British playwright who writes across a huge range of styles and genres with remarkable facility. King Charles III imagined the reign of the new king in Shakespearean blank verse and became a major BBC drama. Cock examined sexual identity with deliberately minimal staging.
Works
- King Charles IIIShakespearean tragedy reimagined as King Charles III faces constitutional crisis
- CockCombat-charged exploration of desire and choice between heterosexual and homosexual lovers
- Earthquakes in LondonSci-fi play about three characters investigating environmental collapse and climate activism
- 13Verbatim play about thirteen-year-olds and premature puberty in contemporary Britain
- Love, Love, LoveIntergenerational romance spanning decades of sixties radical idealism