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Soho Theatre @sohotheatre.bsky.social · Aug 11

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

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Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social · Aug 7

Many thanks

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The Stage @thestage.co.uk · Aug 6

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

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

www.thestage.co.uk

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Improbable @improbable1.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

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Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social · Aug 5

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

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Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social · Jul 24

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

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Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social · Jul 24

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

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Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social · Jul 24

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

museumofcomedy.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Ticketbooth

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Anna Jordan @annaruthjordan.bsky.social · Jul 22

@papatangotc.bsky.social @freelancersmake.bsky.social @markravenhill.bsky.social pls could you give this a share? Thank you x

Anna Jordan @annaruthjordan.bsky.social · Jul 17

Please share. We need community now more than ever.

Calling ALL #PLAYWRIGHTS, #SCREENWRITERS and their friends Support Playwrights is holding a SUMMER SOCIAL at Soho Theatre Walthamstow.

Thurs 24th July 7pm-11pm.

Come alone or come with friends. ALL WELCOME.

#SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial

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Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social · Jul 22

Brilliant !

Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social · Jul 22

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’.

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Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social · Jul 17

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...

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, ...

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Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social · Jul 11

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/...

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Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social · Jul 11

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/...

Ticketbooth

museumofcomedy.ticketsolve.com

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Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social · Jul 9

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

An evening with Joyce Grenfell

YouTube video by Quityertalkin

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Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social · Jul 9

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

An evening with Joyce Grenfell

YouTube video by Quityertalkin

m.youtube.com

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Everything Theatre @everything-theatre.co.uk · Jul 9

@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

everything-theatre.co.uk/2025/07/inte...

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Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social · Jul 9

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...

Musikantenstadl 08.07.2025

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Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social · Jul 7

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

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Qendra Multimedia @qendra-multimedia.bsky.social · Jul 4

International Playwrights Workshop with Mark Ravenhill

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

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Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social · Jul 6

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 !

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Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

Ed Atkins | Tate Britain

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Theatre503 @theatre503.bsky.social · Jul 1

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.

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Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social · Jun 30

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

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Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social · Jun 29

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

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 ...

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