Mike Bartlett

Tedious and threadbare: Unicorn, at the Garrick Theatre, reviewed

22 February 2025 9:00 am

Unicorn, Mike Bartlett’s new play, involves some characters in chairs discussing a sexual threesome. That’s the entire show. Polly (Nicola…

Sheer torture

26 March 2022 9:00 am

Cock was written by Mike Bartlett in 2009 while he was in Mexico at a drama conference. The title suggests…

Family planning

28 October 2017 9:00 am

Beginning starts at the end. A Crouch End party has just finished and the sitting room is a waste tip…

It’s a knockout

24 January 2015 9:00 am

A knockout show at the Young Vic. Literally. The stage has been reconfigured as a boxing ring to make Mike…

Doctor Scroggy’s War (Photo: Mark Douet)

Nobs and numbskulls

27 September 2014 8:00 am

Suppose Charles were to reign as a meddlesome, self-pitying, indecisive plonker. It’s a thought. It’s now a play, too, by…