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    Bull

    By Mike Bartlett

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    A razor-sharp, acid-tongued new play by Mike Bartlett, one of the UK's most exciting and inventive young writers.
    Two jobs. Three candidates. This would be a really bad time to have a stain on your shirt...
    Bull opened at Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield, in February 2013 in a Sheffield Theatres Production, directed by Clare Lizzimore.
    'Sinewy, stinging, witty... it's as if Bartlett has taken the nastiest needling from a Mamet or a Pinter play and put them into a space of pure verbal aggression' The Times
    'A writer with a startling breadth of ambition coupled with an ear for dialogue unmatched by many of his contemporaries... Bull taps into something incredibly relevant and potent' Exeunt Magazine
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNick Hern Books
    Release dateFeb 28, 2013
    ISBN9781780011905
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    Mike Bartlett

    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 and 2017, Best New Drama at the National Television Awards); and The Town (ITV1, 2012).

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      Book preview

      Bull - Mike Bartlett

      Mike Bartlett

      BULL

      NICK HERN BOOKS

      London

      www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

      Contents

      Title Page

      Acknowledgements

      Original Production

      Characters

      Bull

      About the Author

      Copyright and Performing Rights Information

      Acknowledgements

      Thanks to: Daniel Bates, Daniel Evans, Soutra Gilmour, Neil McPherson, and particularly, Clare Lizzimore.

      M.B.

      Bull was first performed at the Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield, on 6 February 2013. The cast was as follows:

      Characters

      THOMAS

      ISOBEL

      TONY

      CARTER

      The audience is raked down towards the actors.

      There should be a minimum of scenery, props and furniture, in order to keep the focus on the drama of the scene.

      ( / ) means the next speech begins at that point.

      ( – ) means the next line interrupts.

      (…) at the end of a speech means it trails off. On its own it indicates a pressure, expectation or desire to speak.

      A line with no full stop at the end indicates that the next speech follows on immediately.

      A speech with no written dialogue indicates a character deliberately remaining silent.

      Blank space between speeches in the dialogue indicates a silence equal to the length of the space.

      This ebook was created before the end of rehearsals and so may differ slightly from the play as performed.

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