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COCK

Lyons and Wiley present

But that’s what this is, isn’t it? The ultimate bitch fight. 

When John takes a break from his boyfriend, he accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides there is only one way to straighten this out . . .

Mike Bartlett’s razor sharp play about love and longing provides us with questions of who we are and who we want to be. John’s refusal to fix his identity disturbs and disrupts the lives of those around him in this contemporary tale of sex without nudity and struggle without violence. Mike Bartlett’s punchy story takes a playful, candid look at one man’s sexuality and the difficulties that arise when you realise you have a choice.

Cock premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 13 November 2009.

Age Suitability: 16+
Warnings: Strong language, sexual reference

WRITTEN BY Mike Bartlett
DIRECTED BY Katie O’Halloran
PRODUCERS Muirenn Lyons & Sarah Wiley
COSTUME DESIGN BY Sarah T Mooney
STAGE MANAGEMENT BY Sarah T Mooney
CAST Claire Gleeson, Joseph Ryan Warner, Padraic Mc Ginley and Séan Mc Manus

RUNNING TIME 90mins
TICKETS €18 | €16 (student/OAP/unemployed)

About The Company
Mike Bartlett is a multi-award-winning playwright and screenwriter. He was Associate Playwright at Paines Plough, Writer-In-Residence at the National Theatre, and Pearson Playwright in Residence at The Royal Court Theatre. His play King Charles III won the Critic’s Circle Award for Best New Play and the Olivier Award for Best New Play, and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best New Play. Love Love Love won Best New Play in the 2011 Theatre Awards UK, and Cock won an Olivier Award in 2010 for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. He won the Writer’s Guild Tinniswood and Imison prizes for Not Talking and the Old Vic New Voices Award for Artefacts.

Director Katie O’Halloran is a Dublin-based stage and screen director, originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She works across multiple mediums in Ireland and internationally. Directing credits: The Pendulum Moon (Druid Debut Reading), Curse of the Starving Class, Big Maggie (The Lir Academy), Hamlet (dlr Mill Theatre), Revolutionary, Eden Hotel (Volya Theatre), Happy Capital, The Perfect Immigrant,  Eleanora Salter & the Monster from the Sea (Dublin Fringe Festival), Tír na nÓg (Aon Scéal Theatre), Trifles, Lungs (Pale Blue Dot Theatre Co.) and In Vitro (Dublin Gay Theatre Festival). In 2022, Katie was the recipient of the Marie Mullen Bursary with Druid Theatre, and was the assistant director on their productions of The Last Return and the DruidO’Casey cycle. Katie was also selected as a Studio Director with the Irish National Opera and worked with the company throughout their 2022-2023 season.  Katie holds a BFA (Hons) in Musical Theatre from The Boston Conservatory (concentrations in Directing, Acting, Songwriting) and an MFA (Distinction) in Directing from The Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art.

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