There is an art to upping a play’s controversy quotient with its title. Certainly Stephen Adly Guirgis knew he was stirring up trouble and attention when he called his 2011 stage work The Motherf***** with the Hat. The same probably goes for British writer Mike Bartlett, who named his verbal tug-of-war play Cock, a title that the exceedingly prudish New York Times refused to … [Read more...]