Unicorn
$31.07
- Paperback
104 pages
- Release Date
13 February 2025
Summary
‘My point is we’re at the frontier here. No one knows. And I find that really fucking exciting.’
Polly and Nick have it all. Happily married, two children, successful careers. And yet there’s something missing… something rare and unforeseen… waiting to add a much-needed sparkle…
Unicorn by Mike Bartlett is an explicit, funny and provocative play, which was first performed at the Garrick Theatre in London’s West End in 2025. It was directed by James Macdonald …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781839044410 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1839044411 |
| Author: | Mike Bartlett |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 104 |
| Release Date: | 13 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 120g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 8mm |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
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Critics Review
‘Snappy and full of quotable lines… a rollicking, stimulating ride… Bartlett is expert at upending audiences’ thinking… Unicorn exercises the brain as well as other organs’
* Evening Standard *‘Sophistication, wit and insight… a well-made play that is intricately entertaining… a ménage à trois steeped in an acid understanding of ageing and mortality… Bartlett is in a line with Harold Pinter in making every word count’
* Telegraph *‘Despite the twinkling title, there is nothing fey about this drama. Bartlett invites the audience to dismantle the traditional idea of marriage… The action is clear and witty… I have rarely seen actors change from within so subtly and definitively’
* Observer *‘Very colourfully candid’
* Daily Mail *‘Very, very funny. Bartlett’s writing hits its targets with unerring precision’
* WhatsOnStage *‘Thoughtful and spikily funny’
* The Stage *‘Gloriously funny and deeply empathetic… a profound meditation on relationships, ageing, honesty, and our capacity to change’
* London Theatre *‘Captivating… Bartlett’s writing impresses throughout’
* All That Dazzles *‘Bartlett returns to the essential subject of intimacy in an age obsessed with physical sex, this time with more seriousness about mores and moralities beneath his characteristic wickedly-perceptive dialogue… it’s often hootingly funny’
* TheatreCat *‘Bold and thought-provoking… takes unexpected twists and turns, keeping the audience permanently intrigued… Bartlett’s razor-sharp dialogue… also incredibly funny’
* Theatre Weekly *‘Storming… a brilliant play… Immediate. Gripping. Filled with raw truths and blunt honesty’
* West End Best Friend *‘Bartlett is the master of dialogue and Unicorn mixes sharp humour with weighty matters; sometimes dark but lit up by its dazzling one-liners’
* The Spy in the Stalls *About The Author
Mike Bartlett
Mike Bartlett is a multi-award-winning writer for both stage and screen.
Theatre includes:
- Juniper Blood (Donmar Warehouse, 2025)
- 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)
- My Child (Royal Court, 2007)
Television includes:
- Life
- Doctor Foster
- King Charles III
- Sticks and Stones
- Trauma
- Press
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