Mike Barlett is an award-winning playwright whose plays include:
Scandaltown (Lyric Hammersmith, 2022); The 47th (Old Vic, London,
2022); Mrs Delgado (Old Fire Station, Oxford, 2021); Vassa, adapted
from Maxim Gorky's play Vassa Zheleznova (Almeida Theatre, London,
2019); Snowflake (Old Fire Station, Oxford, 2018; revived at Kiln
Theatre, London, 2019); Albion (Almeida Theatre, 2017); Wild
(Hampstead Theatre, 2016); Game (Almeida Theatre, 2015); King
Charles III (Almeida/West End/Broadway, 2014-15); An Intervention
(Paines Plough/Watford Palace Theatre); Bull (Sheffield
Theatres/Off-Broadway); Medea (Glasgow Citizens/Headlong); Chariots
of Fire (based on the film; Hampstead/West End); 13 (National
Theatre); Love, Love, Love (Paines Plough/Plymouth Drum/Royal
Court); Earthquakes in London (Headlong/National Theatre); Cock
(Royal Court/Off-Broadway); Artefacts (Nabokov/Bush); Contractions
and My Child (Royal Court).
He was Writer-in-Residence at the National Theatre in 2011, and the
Pearson Playwright-in-Residence at the Royal Court Theatre in 2007.
Cock won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an
Affiliate Theatre in 2010. Love, Love, Love won the TMA Best New
Play Award in 2011. Bull won the same award in 2013. King Charles
III won the Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play in 2015.
He has written several plays for BBC Radio, winning the Writers'
Guild Tinniswood and Imison prizes for Not Talking.
His work for television includes Press (BBC One, 2018); Trauma
(ITV, 2018); two series of Doctor Foster (BBC One, 2015 & 2017,
Best New Drama at the National Television Awards); and The Town
(ITV1, 2012).
'Outstanding and provocative… the most spectacular, gripping and
wickedly entertaining piece of lèse-majesté that British theatre
has ever seen'
*Telegraph*
'Bold, brilliant and unstoppably entertaining… an intelligent,
empathetic, moving look at the power and limitations of the modern
monarchy… theatre doesn't get much better than this'
*The Times*
'Extraordinary… a meaty, hilarious, dizzyingly audacious state of
the nation political thriller'
*Time Out*
'Royally entertaining… raises fascinating questions about the
future of the monarchy'
*Guardian*
'Scintillating and highly ambitious... a brilliant, provocative
piece of drama'
*Financial Times*
'Wonderfully original... Bartlett's brilliant text pulses with
Shakespearean resonances... a right royal triumph'
*The Stage*
'Pitch-perfect… bracingly provocative and outrageously
entertaining'
*Independent*
'Brilliantly ambitious… deliciously smart… [the] script is a witty
amalgam of Shakespearean rhythms and sharp modern
colloquialisms'
*Exeunt Magazine*
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