Mark Ravenhill

This ain't a drill - Lab applications are open 🎉

Our 10-week Saturday Labs programme is back this October feat. the creme de la creme running courses in

★ Comedy Lab: Character
★ Comedy Lab: Stand Up
★ Comedy Lab: Plus
★ Cabaret & Drag Lab

Apply by 7 Sep - hit the link below
buff.ly/BHf2bxf

Many thanks

Jeezus! – A Queer Latinx Musical at Edinburgh Fringe: razor-sharp musical comedy Read our review of Jeezus! – A Queer Latinx Musical at Edinburgh Fringe. Sergio Antonio Maggiolo and Guido García Lueches explore the clash between queerness and the Catholic church in this Razor-sharp musical comedy

★★★★★ Review: Jeezus! – A Queer Latinx Musical – Razor-sharp musical comedy exploring the clash between queerness and the Catholic church 👇

TTD is a course of 8 improvisation workshops for women, non-binary and trans people who are actors, improvisors, writers, drag kings, dancers, designers, directors and theatre-makers at all levels of experience led by Creative Facilitator Angela Clerkin.

Applications open now: buff.ly/DhyAhpg

Treated myself to a lunchtime screening of The Naked Gun. Not quite giddy silliness but plenty of laughs. Well worth a watch.

Serious shits and giggles and lots of belly laughs at our final rehearsal today. Come to our show tomorrow at the Museum of Comedy !

Serious shits and giggles and lots of belly laughs at our final rehearsal today. Come to our show tomorrow at the Museum of Comedy !

Tomorrow at 7pm and 8.30pm we’re sharing the results of my latest comedy workshop. Come on down to the Musuem of Comedy and laugh your bits off! Book using link. Many thanks

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Brilliant !

Talking to a friend’s partner and she says:

I teach bottom sex.

Me: yay ! Good for you !

As she talks more, I realise she’d said ‘bottom sets’.

Das Berliner Ensemble trauert um Claus Peymann | berliner-ensemble Mit großer Betroffenheit haben wir vom Tod Claus Peymanns erfahren. Mit ihm verliert das deutsche Theater  eine herausragende Persönlichkeit, deren Leben durch unermüdliches Engagement für die Kunst, ...

Sad to hear of the death of Claus Peymann who welcomed me into the Berliner Ensemble and championrd my work there www.berliner-ensemble.de/trauer-um-cl...

Friends ive been leading a workshop for actors creating comedy characters . Come see the joyful insane results. Book using link. Thank you . museumofcomedy.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Friends ive been leading a workshop for actors creating comedy characters . Come see the joyful insane results. Book using link. Thank you . museumofcomedy.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

YouTube video by Quityertalkin An evening with Joyce Grenfell

If you fancy an hour of pure joy take a listen m.youtube.com/watch?v=xFKL...

YouTube video by Quityertalkin An evening with Joyce Grenfell

If you fancy an hour of pure joy take a listen m.youtube.com/watch?v=xFKL...

@CamdenFringe.bsky.social #Interview: Georgia Polly-Taylor's HOT MESS

"It turns out that when making a show that requires a toilet, having a builder for a father is a real leg up."

3/4 August @LandUTheatre.bsky.social

#theatre #fringe #comedy #theatresky

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Musikantenstadl 08.07.2025

Hugely pleasurable performance last night from Berlin’s Ramba Zamba - a parody/tribute/subversion of a kitsch German show with yodelling, slapping and songs for the Heimat rambazamba-theater.de/en/spielplan...

Lush ! Long glass, plenty of ice, small glass worth of port, fill rest of glass with tonic water, sprig of rosemary. I’m calling it : the drink of summer 2025

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: ‘Many Identities? Kill Some of Them!’ - Qendra Multimedia

International Playwrights Workshop with Mark Ravenhill

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I can’t believe it’s taken me so long but today I finally saw Fellini’s La Dolce Vita. Only ticket left was in front row of Kino Babylon 2 so I was pressed up against the screen, neck craned. But still wow wow wow ! Will be watching it again as soon as I can - but many rows back !

Ed Atkins | Tate Britain

Thrilled to discover this work today www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...

Babe wake up, applications for the 503Five are open!! 🎉

We are so excited to be reopening submissions for our 2026-27 writer's residency, and to begin this new journey with FIVE talented writers who are eager to take their career to the next level.

My comprehensive school in the early 1980s was very proud of its ‘language lab’. Did the fashion pass and if so when !

Life Journeys: Morag Ross in Conversation | Fashion & Cinema Morag Ross is a legend in film – the award-winning make-up designer who creates the look of characters whose adventures, trials and tribulations have been at the heart of some of the most distinctive ...

Looking forward to this. A discussion followed by a screening of Jarman’s Caravaggio fashionandcinema.com/events/life-...

What’s the most essential quality/skill (do you think) an actor needs ? (no snark please!)

Good to know

Flashback: sitting in the school dentist’s chair (yes they used to send dentists into state schools !)

Dentist: who’s that on your badge ?

Me: Debbie Harry.

Dentist: oo do you fancy her?

Me: no I want to be her.

Dentist silent for rest of session!!

📣 Pencils out, pals - our Writer’s Lab applications are now OPEN! ✍️

Our 9-month programme is designed to take you from first idea to finished script, with the tools, structure, and support to get you there - oh, and help you feel good doing it.

(psst, more below)

Nice person asked me yesterday ‘how do you feel about all the competition as a playwright?’. I surprised myself by saying ‘I don’t think about competitors. I just do my own thing’. Probably sounds a bit smug but I realised that’s my honest feeling.