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Young Vic hosts London premieres of Bull and Lippy

Mike Bartlett’s play is a companion to his Royal Court hit ”Cock”

A scene from Lippy
A scene from Lippy
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The Young Vic has announced two further productions for its Maria Studio – Mike Bartlett's darkly comic play Bull and Edinburgh Fringe hit Lippy.

Bull, which runs from 8 January to 7 February 2015, is a companion piece to Bartlett's award-winning play Cock. It sees three desperate colleagues fight for their jobs, as office politics are played out in an office-come-bullfighting ring.

The play premiered at the Sheffield Crucible last year and won the UK Theatre Award for Best New Play. It's directed by Clare Lizzimore and designed by Soutra Gilmour, with casting still to be announced.

It's followed in the Maria by Lippy, written by Bush Moukarzel with a "cameo writing appearance" from playwright Mark O'Halloran.

Created by theatre company Dead Centre, it takes as its starting point the discovery of four female bodies in a house in Leixlip, Ireland in 2000, who transpired to be an aunt and her three nieces who had undertaken a suicide pact.

The show takes inspiration from a lip-reader who interpreted the few seconds of CCTV footage of the women in a supermarket before they shut themselves away from the world.

The cast for Lippy, which runs at the Young Vic from 19 February to 21 March 2015, includes Joanna Banks, David Heap, Bush Moukarzel, Liv O'Donoghue, and Adam Welsh.