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Golden Globe Winner Taron Egerton Will Make West End Debut Alongside Jonathan Bailey, Jade Anouka & Phil Daniels In COCK The Play


24 September 2021

TARON EGERTON, JONATHAN BAILEY

JADE ANOUKA & PHIL DANIELS 

IN COCK BY MIKE BARTLETT

Golden Globe Winner TARON EGERTON to make West End debut

Bridgerton star JONATHAN BAILEY returns to the London stage for the first time since Olivier Award winning performance in the acclaimed production of Company

Rising star JADE ANOUKA (His Dark Materials BBC, Shakespeare Trilogy at the Donmar Warehouse) returns to the West End

Veteran of stage and screen, PHIL DANIELS (Quadrophenia, This House at the National Theatre) completes the stellar cast.

To be directed by Olivier and Tony Award winner

MARIANNE ELLIOTT

Performances begin 5 March 2022 | Ambassadors Theatre

Taron Egerton, Jonathan BaileyJade Anouka and Phil Daniels star in COCK, the first West End production of Mike Bartlett’s Olivier award winning play about love and identity.

Directed by Tony and Olivier award winning Marianne Elliott, it will have a limited run at the Ambassadors Theatre in London from Saturday 5 March 2022 to Saturday 4 June 2022, with a press night on Tuesday 15 March 2022

Tickets go on sale today (from 10am on Friday 24 September 2021).

'The fact is that some of us like women and some like men and that’s fine that’s good in fact that’s good, a good thing, but it seems to me that you’ve become confused.'

John (Jonathan Bailey) is happy in himself and with his boyfriend (Taron Egerton), until one day he meets the woman of his dreams (Jade Anouka).

In a world full of endless possibilities why must we still limit ourselves with labels? Mike Bartlett’s razor sharp play redefines the battle of the sexes as we know it. 

 

 

Marianne Elliott said  ‘I feel so excited to be working on this beautifully crafted and hilarious play by Mike Bartlett. It keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout. A truly theatrical piece in that it asks the audience to enter the imagination of the storytelling - as only live theatre can do. It’s also all about the acting so to have such a talented, highly experienced, stellar cast is an absolute dream!’

Mike Bartlett added:  ‘I love Marianne Elliott’s work and have done for a long time, so I’m thrilled to be able to collaborate with her on this revival. Especially with this incredible cast, which I know will bring both a fresh take and vast experience to a play about love, identity and the passionate human being.” 

 

 

Taron Egerton won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Sir Elton John in Rocketman and also recorded the original song for the film I’m Gonna Love Again with Sir Elton which went on to win Best Original Song at the Academy Awards. He will next be seen starring in Blackbird, a limited series drama for Apple TV alongside Paul Walter Hauser, Tetris directed by Jon S. Baird and produced by Matthew Vaughn for Apple + and is also set to star in Claire Denis’ romantic drama thriller Stars at Noon, opposite Margaret Qualley. Egerton shot to fame when he played Gary ‘Eggsy’ Unwin in Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service and reprised the role in Kingsman: The Golden Circle.  Other credits include Eddie the EagleTestament of Youth, Legend, Sing, Robin Hood, and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. On stage he has appeared in The Last of the Haussmans at the National Theatre and Tommy in No Quarter at the Royal Court Theatre. 

Jonathan Bailey won an Olivier Award for his ground-breaking role of Jamie in Marianne Elliott’s West End revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical Company.  Jonathan plays Viscount Anthony Bridgerton in the Netflix’ period drama, Bridgerton, a role he is reprising in the second series scheduled for release in 2022.  His other TV credits include the ITV series Broadchurch, Leonardo da Vinci in Leonardo, Me and Mrs Jones, Doctor Who and WIA (all for the BBC) and Crashing and Chewing Gum for Channel 4.  His theatre credits include David Hare’s South DownsAmerican Psycho at the Almeida Theatre, The York Realist at The Donmar Warehouse, and King Lear (alongside Sir Ian McKellen) for Chichester Festival Theatre.

Jade Anouka’s recent TV credits include Ruta Skadi in BBC/HBO’s His Dark Materials, Channel 5’s The Drowning and ITV’s Cleaning Up. Her film credits include Ear For EyeFisherman’s Friends and Last Christmas. In theatre Jade has played the title roles in Hampstead’s Olivier nominated The Phlebotomist and Queen Margaret at The Royal Exchange. Other theatre credits include Moon On A Rainbow Shawl at The National Theatre, Doctor Faustus in the West End and the Donmar Warehouse Shakespeare Trilogy where she played Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, Hotspur in Henry IV and Ariel in The Tempest.  She wrote, directed and co-starred in a short film -  Her & Her for BBC’s Culture In Quarantine series which has since got in to 23 film festivals

 

 

Phil Daniels’ early films include Anoop and the ElephantBugsy MaloneBreaking GlassScum and the central role of Jimmy in Quadrophenia. He starred in a 1985 British snooker musical, Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire. More recent films include playing the voice of Fletcher in Chicken RunFree JimmyFreebirdVinyl and The Hatton Garden Job.  He narrated tracks Parklife and Me, White Noise on the Parklife and Think Tank albums for Blur.  On TV,  he played Kevin Wicks in EastEnders and appeared in Sunnyside Farm, Time Gentlemen Please, and Rock and Chips.  His theatre credits include: The Merchant of Venice, The Jew of Malta and A Clockwork Orange for the RSC, This House for the National Theatre, King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre and Thenardier in Les Miserables in the West End.

Mike Bartlett is a multi-award-winning writer for both stage and screen. His five part drama series Doctor Foster won the National Television Award for Best New Drama and was seen by almost 10 million viewers. Other television work includes  Life, Doctor Foster series 2King Charles III Sticks and StonesTrauma, PressDoctor Who and The Town. Bartlett’s stage plays include: VassaAlbion and Game for the Almeida Theatre,  Snowflake for Arts at the Old Fire Station; Wild at Hampstead Theatre; the Olivier Award winning King Charles III at the Almeida Theatre, Wyndham’s Theatre and Music Box Theatre in New York (also winner of the Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play 2014);  An Intervention for Paines Plough and Watford; Bull at Sheffield Theatres, Off Broadway and the Young Vic (Winner of Best New Play at the National Theatre Awards 2013); Medea for Headlong, Glasgow Citizens, Watford Theatre and Warwick; Chariots of Fire at the Hampstead Theatre the Gielgud Theatre in the West End; 13 at National Theatre; Cock for the Royal Court; Decade for Headlong; Earthquakes in London for Headlong and the National Theatre; Love, Love, Love for Paines Plough, Plymouth Theatre Royal, the Royal Court, Roundabout Theatre Company, New York and the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre; Contractions for the Royal Court and Crucible Theatre, Sheffield; My Child for the Royal Court; Artefacts for the Bush Theatre and Honest for the Theatre Royal Northampton.

 

 

Marianne Elliott recently directed Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company at the Gielgud Theatre.  It won four Olivier Awards including ‘Best Revival of a Musical’.  Its Broadway transfer will re-open (following the Covid shutdown) in New York this autumn. Her other shows for Elliott & Harper include the Olivier Award winning Death of a Salesman (co-directed with Miranda Cromwell) in the West End and at the Young Vic.  For the National Theatre she directed the Olivier and Tony award-winning Angels in America (in London and on Broadway), the Olivier and Tony-award-winning The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (at the NT, West End, on Broadway and on tour).  She co-directed the world-wide hit War Horse alongside Tom Morris (at the NT, West End on Broadway and on tour).  She received a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for War Horse. On winning the Tony Award for Curious Incident in New York, Marianne became the first woman in Broadway history to have won two Tony Awards for Best Direction of a Play.  Other productions at the NT include The Light Princess, Women Beware Women, Port, Saint Joan (Olivier Award for Best Revival, South Bank Show Award) and Pillars of the Community (Evening Standard Best Director Award). Elliott recently directed two of the episodes of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads for the BBC.

Joining Marianne Elliott on the creative team are:  Designer Merle Hensel, Lighting Designer Paule Constable, Sound Designer Ian Dickinson, Composer Femi Temowo, Movement Director Annie-Lunette Deakin-Foster, Casting Director Charlotte Sutton, Vocal Coach Hazel Holder and Associate Director Chloe Christian.

COCK is produced by Elliott & Harper Productions.

Listings Information:

Elliott & Harper Productions presents

C O C K 
By Mike Bartlett
Directed by Marianne Elliott

Ambassadors Theatre
West Street
London
WC2H 9ND

Dates:  Saturday 5 March 2022 to Saturday 4 June 2022 at 8pm

Matinees:  Wednesdays and Saturdays at 3pm

Press Night:  7pm, Tuesday 15 March 2022

Tickets from £20

Suitable for ages 14+

Tickets on sale from 10am on Friday 24 September 2021

Box Office: 0333 009 6690 or 0844 871 7615

Follow COCK on Twitter: @cocktheplayldn and Instagram: @cocktheplayldn and Elliott and Harper Productions on Twitter: @_elliottharper

FULL CAST BIOGRAPHIES

Taron Egerton
Taron Egerton is an award-winning actor whose versatile & charismatic performances continuously capture audiences around the world.

Egerton garnered numerous accolades for his portrayal as the iconic singer Sir Elton John in Dexter Fletcher’s Rocketman for Paramount Pictures.  The film premiered at the 2019 Cannes International Film Festival to a standing ovation and rave reviews.  He went on to win the Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, and received nominations from both BAFTA and SAG-AFTRA as well as Best Actor honors from several critics’ organizations.  He was honored with the Actor of The Year Award at the Hollywood Film Awards and took home the Virtuoso Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival for his performance. 

Egerton further revealed his multifaceted talents when he recorded the original song I’m Gonna Love Me Again with John for the film. Written by legendary duo, Sir Elton John and Bernie Taupin, the song went on to win Best Original Song at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards.  The song was also acknowledged by The Recording Academy where Egerton and musical producer Giles Martin were nominated for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media making this the actor’s first nomination at the 2020 Grammy Awards. 

Egerton is about to wrap production on Blackbird, a limited series drama for Apple TV alongside Paul Walter Hauser. The series is an adaptation of the 2010 novel, In with The Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer, and A Dangerous Bargain for Redemption by James Keene and Hillel Levin. Egerton is also set to start production soon on Claire Denis’ romantic drama thriller Stars at Noon, opposite Margaret Qualley.

He will next be seen starring in Tetris: The Movie, directed by Jon S. Baird and produced by Matthew Vaughn for Apple +.  Portraying Henk Rogers, the Dutch-born video game entrepreneur who introduced the world to Tetris, the film will focus on the powerful dynamic the game had in the industry while uncovering historical circumstances in world politics. He also reprises his role as the voice of Johnny in Garth Jennings’s animation comedy, Sing 2.  The musical performance film also features voices from Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Bono, Pharrell Williams and Scarlett Johansson.  The original Sing became a box office sensation in 2016 receiving recognition from several critics including the Golden Globes.  

Raised in Wales, the Award-winning actor graduated from the renowned Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2012. He went on to make his acting debut with a small role in two episodes of ITV’s Inspector Lewis before being cast in the TV mini-series The Smoke. Shortly after, he was cast in his breakout role as Eggsy in The Kingsman: The Secret Service & reprised his role in Kingsman: The Golden Circle. Other credits include, Robin HoodTestament of YouthLegendEddie the Eagle, and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance the prequel to Jim Henson’s 1982 film, The Dark Crystal

Egerton has been featured in a brand campaign for Montblanc.

Jonathan Bailey
Jonathan Bailey will next be seen starring in Season Two of the Emmy and SAG nominated series for Netflix, Bridgerton, from the prolific Shondaland. Based on Julia Quinn’s best-selling series of novels, the series is set in the sexy, lavish and competitive world of Regency London high society. Bailey will reprise his role of Anthony Bridgerton, the eldest sibling and head of the family, alongside Simone Ashley, when the show returns in 2022.

An Olivier Award winning actor, Bailey is known for his various roles on stage and television, most notably as budding journalist Oliver Stevens in the BAFTA Winning ITV crime drama series Broadchurch (2015), alongside David Tennant and Olivia Colman, and as Jack Patterson in the BBC comedy television series W1A alongside Hugh Bonneville and Jessica Hynes.

In film, Jonathan has starred in James Marsh’s The Mercy alongside Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz, playing the key role of rookie reporter Wheeler, and in the adaptation of Anne Rice’s novel  The Young Messiah, playing Herod alongside Sean Bean and Christian McKay.

Bailey’s breakthrough television performance was as a teenage Leonardo Da Vinci in the BBC adventure series Leonardo (2011-12). Other television roles include Lance Miller in Amazon Studio’s series Jack Ryan (2018), alongside John Krasinski and Abbie Cornish; Ash in Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum (2017); Sam in the Channel 4 comedy Crashing (2016) alongside Phoebe Waller-Bridge; and appearing as the character of Psi in Doctor Who series 8, (2014) alongside Jenna Coleman and Peter Capaldi.

Bailey won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical for his stand-out role in Marianne Elliott’s West End revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Company (2018-19) at the Gielgud Theatre. He portrayed the role of Jamie – the role of Amy in the original show – as part of the production’s first same-sex couple.

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Jade Anouka
Jade's recent TV credits include Ruta Skadi in BBC/HBO’s His Dark Materials, Channel 5’s The Drowning and ITV’s Cleaning Up. Her film credits include Ear For EyeFisherman’s Friends and Last Christmas.

In theatre Jade has played the title roles in Hampstead’s Olivier nominated The Phlebotomist and Queen Margaret at The Royal Exchange. Other theatre credits include Moon On A Rainbow Shawl at The National Theatre, Doctor Faustus in the West End and the Donmar Warehouse Shakespeare Trilogy where she played Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, Hotspur in Henry IV and Ariel in The Tempest

As a poet Jade has performed at The Southbank Centre, Richmix, The Roundhouse, Whitechapel Arts Gallery, Homotopia Festival, Sofar Sounds and alongside Sam Smith for their song My Oasis. She’s had writing work commissioned by Paines Plough, Audible UK, Stylist Magazine, Broccoli Content, The Young Vic, The Old Vic and BBC Radio 4 where she wrote and performed This Sunday for their Short Works series. Her debut play, Heart, combined her love of writing and acting when she performed it at the Vault Festival in 2019 it was due to get a full production and London run in summer 2020. Jade did a TEDxTalk Being Black, Being a Woman, Being 'Other’.

She wrote, directed and co-starred in short film ‘Her & Her’ for BBC’s Culture In Quarantine series which has since got in to 23 film festivals

Phil Daniels
Phil Daniels’ big screen credits include Quadrophenia, Breaking Glass, Scum, Bad Behaviour, Goodnight Charlie Bright, the voice of Fletcher in the animated film Chicken Run, FreebirdVinyl and starred with Larry Lamb and Matthew Goode in the film The Hatton Garden Job. He recently finished filming the National Theatre’s screen adaptation of the play Death Of England.

His television appearances are extensive, from comedy roles including the Only Fools and Horses prequel Rock & Chips, Zapped, Sunnyside Farm, Time Gentlemen Please and Gimme Gimme, to dramatic starring roles in the critically acclaimed series OutlawsThe Long Firm, Holding On, Moonfleet and EastEnders.

More recently Phil starred in series 1 & 2 of Sliced for Dave, Agatha Raisin, Amazon Studios forthcoming drama The Power, the BAFTA nominated series Adult Material on Channel 4 and the Sky original series I Hate Suzie, written by Lucy Prebble.

Phil’s stage work includes leading roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Court. He’s starred in Anthony and Cleopatra and The Knight of the Burning Pestle at the Globe, played Monsieur Thenardier in Les Miserables at the Queen’s Theatre, Bob Mellish in the hugely successful National Theatre and The Garrick Theatre production of This House, played the Fool alongside Ian McKellen in King Lear at the Chichester Festival Theatre, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde in the touring production of Jekyll & Hyde, and Charles Dickens alongside Jim Broadbent in A Very Very Very Dark Matter at the Bridge Theatre.

Phil recorded and toured with Blur, providing a vocal for their huge hit Park Life. He has also sung with The Stranglers and The Who.

In 2011 Phil released his autobiography Class Actor.

ELLIOTT & HARPER PRODUCTIONS
Elliott & Harper Productions was founded in 2016 by Tony and Olivier Award winning Director Marianne Elliott OBE and award-winning producers, Chris Harper and Nick Sidi.

Previous Elliott & Harper productions include the Olivier Award winning Death of a Salesman, co-produced by Cindy Tolan and the Young Vic, and directed by Marianne Elliott and Miranda Cromwell (Olivier Best Director Award Winners 2020) which enjoyed sold-out runs at both the Young Vic and at The Piccadilly Theatre in 2019. The show earned an Olivier-nomination for Wendell Pierce as Willy Loman; and Sharon D Clarke won the 2020 Olivier Award for Best Actress for her performance as Linda Loman. 

Marianne Elliott’s gender swapped production of Company by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth ran in London’s West End in 2018, winning 4 Olivier Awards including Best Musical Revival, Best Design, Best Supporting Actress (for Patti LuPone) and Best Supporting Actor (for Jonathan Bailey). Elliott & Harper are producing the Broadway transfer of this production of Company, set to re-open at the Bernard Jacobs on 9th December 2021. Also on Broadway, Elliott & Harper co-produced the National Theatre’s production of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, also directed by Marianne Elliott, which won 3 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Play. Other productions include the West End premiere of Simon Stephens’ Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle;  and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, directed by Sally Cookson which premiered at Leeds Playhouse in 2017 and enjoyed a successful run at the Bridge Theatre  in 2019. A tour of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, directed by Michael Fentiman, will open in Leicester in November 2021 before playing venues across the UK and Ireland.

Follow Elliott and Harper Productions on Facebook: @ElliottandHarper, Twitter: @_elliottharper and Instagram: elliottandharper

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