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littlemaddles.bsky.social
Comedy writer-performer. Frankie Boyle's New World Order, Would I Lie to You, The News Quiz, The Kumars, Horrible Histories, TLS etc. Dear Martin on @ The Arcola Theatre til 29 March. https://www.madeleinebrettingham.com
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Think “wavering between absurdity and depth” will be my new bio ayoungishperspective.co.uk/2025/03/12/r...

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Ingmar Bergman’s version of ”The Magic Flute” would never have been on my Smershpod bingo card. Ever. Absolutely psyched for what the takes will be.

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Next week

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I saw this on Friday. It’s very good. Gun fingers to @littlemaddles.bsky.social www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/dea...

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Packed house on Saturday. Thanks to everyone who’s been lovely about the play! Collecting reviews and audience feedback on Insta 👉 www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2...

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Wiebke Green directs another odd and intriguing psychological drama at the Arcola Theatre.

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if you're looking for EXCELLENT FUNNY AND UNSETTLING THEATRE this month, I can recommend Dear Martin by the brilliant @littlemaddles.bsky.social ! It's great and weird! Dear Martin. 5-29 March, Arcola Theatre, Dalston www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/dea...

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Go see Dear Martin by @littlemaddles.bsky.social at the @arcolatheatre.bsky.social It’s dark, super funny and features some really great performances. www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/dea...

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FIRST LOOK 👀 at Dear Martin, a new darkly comic play by Madeleine Brettingham, directed by Wiebke Green, which has its press night tonight! #LondonTheatre #NewPlay #Theatre

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Top drawer! Go see: www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/dea...

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Some lovely photos of the Dear Martin cast and crew goofing off (me being extra goofy on right). Five days to go! www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/dea...

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Really enjoyed the literary criticism in Margo Jefferson’s Negroland because she sees technique problems for what they are – the product of horrible psychological flaws!!

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A nice person has uploaded the whole of Stockhausen’s Mittwoch aus Licht from the 2012 Olympic Festival to YouTube including (from 3hr00m) Helicopter String Quartet filmed over Birmingham www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur9H...

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Lots of fun to speak to to MiS Magazine about Dear Martin madeinshoreditch.co.uk/2025/02/21/m...

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Me, alone, propping up the post-war order, fingers trembling, wondering why no-one’s joining in

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“Dear Martin is a play about exploitation and love and the inability of either to completely account for the things that we do….” Said a bit more about my play Dear Martin here... theatreweekly.com/dear-martin-...

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One post for me, one for the studio

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The Chuckle Brothers’ haunting refrain “to me, to you” was symbolic of their refusal to accept their phallic power (the ladder) and thus their mutual castration

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Comedians/humourists are especially prone to this, I think. Plenty of people have thrown the board in the air half way through the game because they just couldn’t get over the indignity of being funny.

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my ears immediately perk up at reading about lessons from clown school

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“The gap between who [they are] and who they would like to be…often compels them to want to switch from what they have mastered or what comes naturally to a different profession, game or life they think of as better…"

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Lovely to do the Leicester Comedy Festival last week where the photographer caught this wonderful photo of an audience member making off with a bag of Mr Porky Pork scratchings 😎

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A scribbled sketch for The Magician card by artist Frieda Harris for the Aleister Crowley tarot deck   (from the Warburg Institute exhibition)

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Excited to have such a brilliant cast and crew confirmed for Dear Martin 🙏 Rehearsals start this week… www.instagram.com/arcolatheatr...

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