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A solo play about Crohn’s Disease, mania and casual sex by @hayley.jemma @tinytablereads

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Hello dear angels! Today I did indeed get an award. And it’s one I am incredibly grateful for in the way it came to me and what it represents. I made an emotional little speech that someone filmed that I shall post next. For now, thank you so much to everyone that has ever and who continues to support me, to the queer people who loudly, proudly make space for ALL of us and to the queer people with intersections of marginalisation that they experience. This is for the chronically ill and disabled queers. Big big BIG love and a big F off to the anti-trans politics of the UK. (I made sure to wear my No Apologies top). taken in Summerhall by @shitbag.the.play

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Oh heck yeah !!!!!! !!!! !!! !!!!!!!!!!

Still only 1 ticket booked for this Wednesday though (a reviewer ahaha - come by Wednesday!!) 😅

4:15pm Summerhall
Anatomy Lecture Theatre

This is the height of my career bois lmao !
Goodnight !! // (good morning back home) !!!! 🥹💜💜💜🫶🫶🫶💩💩💩🕺🕺🕺 taken in Edinburgh, United Kingdom by @shitbag.the.play

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Hello dear ones!
The final week of shows starts again tonight. Today the lovely/kind Age review was printed on paper and so I cut it out and put it on my wall next to a piece of paper I made during an art therapy session at the psych ward this year. The Carrot Show is strangely not about carrots at all. I’m very proud of it and I’m very very aware of not only posting highlights in these times/remembering the difficult year that has brought me to it. Social media and fringe festivals are weird but also CAN be good and not everything is black and white and yes. I love you all. Have a good Tuesday xxxxxxxx taken in Meat Market by @shitbag.the.play

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Please scroll to the end of this post 🧡

I didn’t invite any reviewers to this season because it makes me incredibly nervous because I really do care but also because I don’t really like the reviews and stars and awards and money side of business/measuring art etc. and because I think it’s very subjective and doesn’t really matter!

This is NOT a comment at ALL directed at the glorious Sonia Nair (who I’d have wished to be the reviewer for this show out of everyone tbh and who came without being asked - which I am genuinely very grateful for).

I am very proud of this review, especially as it was my ‘second album’ show and also because this review was from the second run with all of the elements put together.

My brain also worries about stars and my perfectionism thinks ‘oh no it’s not five’ which is also why I remind myself that stars and reviews and awards are actually, at the end of the day, very unimportant.

I did want to share this though because prompted by others, thought it might be a good way to encourage people to come see it before it ends next Saturday because I do want people to see it now 🧡🧡🧡🧡 taken in Meat Market by @shitbag.the.play

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@theageaustralia

In year six someone told me that I was ‘the weirdest person (they) knew that could still be cool’ and I have ridden with that for the rest of my life. I also now probably think that it’s explained by being neurodiverse without realising it until the last few years. But anyway! We persist! Best and weirdest is fun !! 🥲🥹🧡🧡🧡🥕🥕🥕🕺💜🥕 taken in Meat Market by @shitbag.the.play

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OH GOODNESS THIS IS LOVELY. 4 JUDGES LIKED IT IN 2 DAYS BLESS THEM. COME AND SEE THIS WILD SHOW MADE W. @justingardam 🥹🥹🥹🥹🧡🧡🧡🧡🥕🥕🥕🥕

6:15pm Meat Market Stables
Tuesday-Sat.
This week and next 🥹🧡🥕 taken in Meat Market by @shitbag.the.play

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WOOOOOOT ! IT’S RAINING TODAY 😃😃😃🥕🥕🥕 taken in Meat Market by @shitbag.the.play

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YES I absolutely accidentally wrote another autobiographical show. BUT it IS very genuinely designed to be uplifting.

Biggest love to everyone xxx A SLIDE WITH ORANGE WRITING AND WHITE TEST THAT READS:

CONTENT WARNINGS FOR THE CARROT SHOW. taken in Meat Market by @shitbag.the.play

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HELLO ANGELS!
REPOST: Some details and spellings were incorrect!

I am so bloody excited to be working briefly with these legends in a Staged Reading of my first ever play for multiple people. I was so excited by having other actors and being mentored by Emilie that I thought I’d post a photo of us all!!

BIG BIG LOVE! Swipe for CORRECT DETAILS and come and see excerpts from @joeltt__ and @unplugged_radiator the LEGENDS!

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+ a big thanks to @hairyworm and @ojsatchell for all of the championing of new WRITING! taken in fortyfivedownstairs by @shitbag.the.play

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Hello dear angels.

The Carrot Show is a month away!

What IS the carrot show?

WELL! Unlike Shitbag, which was written a year before I ever produced it, this show is more of a collage that’s still being assembled !!?!!

NO ONE PANIC!

It’s a wild mixture of stop-motion animation, marionette and shadow puppetry, paper-maché, interviews with my grandma, improvised piano and singing - all devised and stuck together with the help of masking tape, super glue and (MOST helpfully) my excellent creative and romantic partner @justingardam 🧡

It’s about how we use creative distraction to cope with a burning world, our own broken bodies and brains and how much distraction is ok until we need to re-engage with the world politically and socially again.

How do we find a balance between self-soothing and being present in an increasingly absurd world?

I’m not sure really. But I’d love to have you all in a room to watch a collage and eat a carrot.

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6:15pm.
2nd and 3rd week of Fringe @ Meat Market October. taken in Meat Market by @shitbag.the.play

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I made this with my hands!! I hope everyone is travelling a ok - what a wild it continues to be hey!!!! by @shitbag.the.play

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