Mike Bartlett Plays: Two

Mike Bartlett Plays: Two

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Publication Date: 18th April 2023

Five ambitious and exciting plays by the multi-award-winning playwright, hailed as "one of the prime movers in a new golden generation of British playwrights" (Independent), and introduced by the author.Earthquakes... Read More
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Five ambitious and exciting plays by the multi-award-winning playwright, hailed as "one of the prime movers in a new golden generation of British playwrights" (Independent), and introduced by the author.Earthquakes... Read More
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Five ambitious and exciting plays by the multi-award-winning playwright, hailed as "one of the prime movers in a new golden generation of British playwrights" (Independent), and introduced by the author.

Earthquakes in London (National Theatre & Headlong, 2010) is an epic drama about climate change, population explosion, social breakdown and worldwide paranoia, travelling from 1968 to 2525 and back again. "The theatrical equivalent of a thrilling roller-coaster ride" (Daily Telegraph).

Love, Love, Love (Paines Plough & Drum Theatre Plymouth, UK tour, 2010; Royal Court & Paines Plough, 2012) examines the baby boomer generation, from coming-of-age in the 1960s to retirement-age more than forty years later, in a play that "does the clash of generational world views with a devastating precision" (Guardian).

The Enemy is a short play in which a journalist seizes an opportunity to interview the man who shot Osama bin Laden. It was staged by Headlong as part of Decade (St Katherine's Dock, London, 2011), exploring 9/11 and its legacy.

13 (National Theatre, 2011) is a panoramic drama in which a young man returns to London, a city riven by social protest and upheaval, with a radical vision for the future. Premiered on the National's largest stage, it confirmed Bartlett's ability to tackle epic themes with supreme assurance: "His ambition is distinctive and immense" (Evening Standard).

Medea (Headlong, UK tour, 2012) is a startlingly modern version of Euripides' tragedy, exploring a woman's private fury at her husband's infidelity, while imprisoned in her marital home. "A savage play for today, superbly well done" (Mail on Sunday).

 

Details
  • Price: $40.95
  • Pages: 464
  • Carton Quantity: 17
  • Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
  • Imprint: Nick Hern Books
  • Publication Date: 18th April 2023
  • Trim Size: 5 x 7.75 in
  • ISBN: 9781839040573
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Reviews

"Bartlett beautifully combines domestic and cosmic issues... It is, in every sense, a big play that has the courage of its convictions." —Guardian on Earthquakes in London

"An extraordinary, sprawling and chaotic drama... a vivid, sometimes surreal pageant of the personal and the political... unmissable." —Time Out on 13

"Smart and lightly done." —Independent on Medea

Author Bio

Mike Bartlett is a multi-award-winning writer for both stage and screen. His theatre work includes: The 47th (Old Vic, London, 2022); Game (Almeida, 2015); King Charles III (Almeida Theatre and West End, 2014); An Intervention (Paines Plough/Watford, 2014); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre, 2012); 13 (National Theatre, London, 2011); Earthquakes in London (Headlong and National Theatre, 2010); Love, Love, Love (Paines Plough and Plymouth Theatre Royal, 2010); Cock (Royal Court, 2009; West End, 2022); Artefacts (Bush Theatre and Nabokov, 2008); and My Child (Royal Court, 2007). For television, he's worked on: Life, Doctor Foster, King Charles III, Sticks and Stones, Trauma, and Press.

Five ambitious and exciting plays by the multi-award-winning playwright, hailed as "one of the prime movers in a new golden generation of British playwrights" (Independent), and introduced by the author.

Earthquakes in London (National Theatre & Headlong, 2010) is an epic drama about climate change, population explosion, social breakdown and worldwide paranoia, travelling from 1968 to 2525 and back again. "The theatrical equivalent of a thrilling roller-coaster ride" (Daily Telegraph).

Love, Love, Love (Paines Plough & Drum Theatre Plymouth, UK tour, 2010; Royal Court & Paines Plough, 2012) examines the baby boomer generation, from coming-of-age in the 1960s to retirement-age more than forty years later, in a play that "does the clash of generational world views with a devastating precision" (Guardian).

The Enemy is a short play in which a journalist seizes an opportunity to interview the man who shot Osama bin Laden. It was staged by Headlong as part of Decade (St Katherine's Dock, London, 2011), exploring 9/11 and its legacy.

13 (National Theatre, 2011) is a panoramic drama in which a young man returns to London, a city riven by social protest and upheaval, with a radical vision for the future. Premiered on the National's largest stage, it confirmed Bartlett's ability to tackle epic themes with supreme assurance: "His ambition is distinctive and immense" (Evening Standard).

Medea (Headlong, UK tour, 2012) is a startlingly modern version of Euripides' tragedy, exploring a woman's private fury at her husband's infidelity, while imprisoned in her marital home. "A savage play for today, superbly well done" (Mail on Sunday).

 

  • Price: $40.95
  • Pages: 464
  • Carton Quantity: 17
  • Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
  • Imprint: Nick Hern Books
  • Publication Date: 18th April 2023
  • Trim Size: 5 x 7.75 in
  • ISBN: 9781839040573
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

"Bartlett beautifully combines domestic and cosmic issues... It is, in every sense, a big play that has the courage of its convictions." —Guardian on Earthquakes in London

"An extraordinary, sprawling and chaotic drama... a vivid, sometimes surreal pageant of the personal and the political... unmissable." —Time Out on 13

"Smart and lightly done." —Independent on Medea

Mike Bartlett is a multi-award-winning writer for both stage and screen. His theatre work includes: The 47th (Old Vic, London, 2022); Game (Almeida, 2015); King Charles III (Almeida Theatre and West End, 2014); An Intervention (Paines Plough/Watford, 2014); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre, 2012); 13 (National Theatre, London, 2011); Earthquakes in London (Headlong and National Theatre, 2010); Love, Love, Love (Paines Plough and Plymouth Theatre Royal, 2010); Cock (Royal Court, 2009; West End, 2022); Artefacts (Bush Theatre and Nabokov, 2008); and My Child (Royal Court, 2007). For television, he's worked on: Life, Doctor Foster, King Charles III, Sticks and Stones, Trauma, and Press.