COCK - The Play

BOOKINGS: http://alexanderbar.co.za/show/COCK Written by Mike Bartlett. Directed by Paul Griffiths With: Francis Chouler Matt Newman Melissa Haiden James Skilton Unhappy in his rela­tion­ship, John wants out. Or maybe he just wants time out? A break from his boyfriend for a few weeks. Or maybe months? Actu­ally, the whole prob­lem is John doesn’t know what he wants. But the last thing he expects is to fall in love with a woman… Win­ner of the 2010 Olivier Award for Out­stand­ing Achieve­ment in An Affil­i­ate The­atre, Mike Bartlett’s sharp, witty script takes a can­did look at one mans sex­u­al­ity and the dif­fi­cul­ties that arise when faced with a whole new world of possibility. Praise for Mike Bartlett’s script “A smart, prickly and reward­ing view of sex­ual and emo­tional con­fu­sion” – Lon­don Evening Stan­dard “With the excep­tion of Oscar Wilde, quar­relling lovers are never as artic­u­late and enter­tain­ing as they are in COCK, Mike Bartlett’s Bat­tle Royal of wit and per­sua­sion” – Vari­ety “Robust and rol­lick­ing. Bartlett’s dia­logue crack­les and pops with the rhetoric of vitu­per­a­tion” – The New Yorker “Bartlett man­ages, deftly, to explore many exi­gent ques­tions of iden­tity, sex­u­al­ity, our obses­sion with cer­tainty and our vis­ceral dis­com­fort with ambi­gu­ity.” — Huff­in­g­ton Post “A ter­rific comedy…Hypnotic and utterly con­tem­po­rary.” — New York Times