‘Cock’ Review: Taron Egerton, Jonathan Bailey Lead a Blistering West End Production

John is desperate: “It’s not a competition. Please, please it mustn’t be that.” Cue his girlfriend’s snapped retort: “Then what is it really?” Good question. As revealed by the climactic round of mutual cross-examination when John (Jonathan Bailey) brings his girlfriend (Jade Anouka) home to meet his boyfriend (Taron Egerton), Mike Bartlett’s deliciously vicious, knockout play “Cock” is not so much a battle of the sexes as a battle of the sexualities. In director Marianne Elliott’s (“Company,” “Angels in America”) blistering and magnetically acted revival, the 2009 play doesn’t just hold its own; it holds its audience rapt even when… Read Full Article