When you arrive at The Ballerina, you are greeted by a mysterious figure wearing an animal mask. They hand you a card containing advice on how to process the show, a tongue-in-cheek line that reassures you in a way that isn’t entirely believable. The actors are already in position as you take your seat. Two … Continue reading What right does Britain have to tell any other country how to manage its political system? | The Ballerina brutally confronts the harsh truth of peaceful politics
Author: Kirstie Summers
“My parents separated later than yours, but I promise I am way more traumatised” | Bloody Mary: Live! lends a human, but darkly hilarious, voice to the legacy of Mary Tudor
Best known to history as Bloody Mary, Queen Mary Tudor is the oft-overlooked first Queen of England. Overshadowed by her womanising father and her longer-reigning sister, Mary’s legacy is frequently reduced to a footnote in history. In Bloody Mary: Live!, Olivia Miller uses stand up comedy to give Mary a platform to tell her story … Continue reading “My parents separated later than yours, but I promise I am way more traumatised” | Bloody Mary: Live! lends a human, but darkly hilarious, voice to the legacy of Mary Tudor
“I’ve spent far too long listening to other people doing this and not doing it myself” | Eddie French on the sketch comedy that inspired their podcast, Pick Scraped
Tell us about your podcast, Pick Scraped. Pick Scraped is a fortnightly sketch show that is made entirely by me (and some royalty free sound effects from the internet). It has a loose structure of an intro and outro concerning the latest fad I’ve gotten far too into and then some unrelated sketches in the … Continue reading “I’ve spent far too long listening to other people doing this and not doing it myself” | Eddie French on the sketch comedy that inspired their podcast, Pick Scraped
