TOY STORIES at Edinburgh Fringe
Written and Performed by Chris Dobrowolski
Directed by Paul Bourne
Tickets from £8
Toy Stories, Or How Not to Make a Living as an Artist is playing at:
Pleasance Courtyard, Attic
July 31st - August 26th 2024
12:40pm - daily
Part stand-up comedy, part performance lecture, TOY STORIES takes the audience on an irreverent, powerful and hilarious storytelling adventure through art, contemporary politics, twentieth-century history and ...toys!
When all around you is falling apart, can childhood toys provide some sort of grounding? When fake news abounds and politicians lie routinely, who's to tell Chris that his creations are just pretend?
A dazzling journey from Scalextric to Nazis!
Read the review from Brighton Fringe
Albatross by Martha Loader
Martha leading one of our February Young Writers’ Workshop sessions
What does one generation owe to the next?
Martha Loader is our 2024 commissioned playwright! She is currently working with us on her new play, ‘Albatross’, to be shared as a preview production as part of Hotbed 2024, with an early development week in March 2024.
Martha Loader is a playwright, actor, and producer from Ipswich. Previous work has been presented by HighTide, Mercury Theatre, Menagerie Theatre Company, and INK. She is an associate artist of the New Wolsey Theatre, and has been commissioned by Menagerie Theatre, and the Almeida Theatre as part of their ‘Genesis New Playwrights, Big Plays Programme’. Her play BINDWEED won the Judges Award at the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2022 and willtour in 2024.
You can keep up with Martha and everything she’s up to on her Twitter (X) @MarthaLoader
Martha Loader talks all things ‘Albatross’
Martha Loader is our 2024 commissioned playwright who has been working closely with the Menagerie team to develop her piece of work - Albatross.
Martha also led one of our Young Writers’ Workshops in February. After which, she sat down to speak with Sarah Saxby about the project, its themes, and her writing in general.
This interview was done based on Martha’s first draft of Albatross, therefore themes and plot points may change by the time the play is previewed.
“But I think [Albatross] is also a kind of haunting as well, particularly for Alice”