Plays to perform

Mike Bartlett

Mike Bartlett

Mike Bartlett is a multi-award-winning writer for both stage and screen.

Theatre includes: Unicorn (West End, 2025); Scandaltown (Lyric Hammersmith, 2022); The 47th (Old Vic, London, 2022); Mrs Delgado (Old Fire Station, Oxford, 2021); Snowflake (Old Fire Station, Oxford, 2018); Albion (Almeida Theatre, London, 2017); Wild (Hampstead Theatre, 2016); Game (Almeida, 2015); King Charles III (Almeida Theatre and West End, 2014); An Intervention (Paines Plough/Watford, 2014); Bull (Sheffield Theatres, 2013); Medea (Headlong, 2012); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre, 2012); 13 (National Theatre, London, 2011); Decade (Headlong, 2011); Earthquakes in London (Headlong & National Theatre, 2010); Love, Love, Love (Paines Plough & Plymouth Theatre Royal, 2010); Cock (Royal Court, 2009; West End, 2022); Contractions (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2008); Artefacts (Bush Theatre & Nabokov, 2008); and My Child (Royal Court, 2007).

Television includes: Life, Doctor Foster, King Charles III, Sticks and Stones, Trauma and Press.

My Child
My Child
A 'tug-of-love' drama, in which a divorced father kidnaps his child - with unexpected consequences.
Artefacts
Artefacts
A drama about a father-daughter reunion which, after sixteen years, crosses between the world of a British teenager a...
Contractions
Contractions
An ink-black comedy about the boundaries between work and play.
Earthquakes in London
Earthquakes in London
An epic rollercoaster of a play travelling from 1968 to 2525 and back again, driven by an all-pervasive fear of the f...
Medea (Headlong version)
Medea
A bold new version of the classic tragedy by one of Britain's hottest playwrights.
13
13
Coincidences, omens and vision collide with political reality in this epic new play by the award-winning Mike Bartlet...
An Intervention
An Intervention
A touching, funny play about what happens when you hate your best friend.
King Charles III
King Charles III
Mike Bartlett's 'future history play' explores the people beneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, a...
Game
Game
A provocative play that invites us to spy on a family as they embark on a dangerous new way to live.
Bull
Bull
A razor-sharp play about the fine line between office politics and playground bullying, Bull offers ringside...
Wild
Wild
A darkly comic play that explores the unexpected, bewildering, and life-changing consequences of challenging the stat...
Love, Love, Love
Love, Love, Love
Are baby boomers to blame for the fact that their children's generation is debt-ridden and adrift? Love, Love, Lo...
Albion
Albion
Mike Bartlett's outstanding play, set in the ruins of a garden in rural England.
Snowflake
Snowflake
An epic story about generational conflict, fathers and daughters, and whether we're living in the best or worst of ti...
Not Talking
Not Talking
A gripping and lyrical play from the Olivier award-winning writer, examining what happens if we live a life of not ta...