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Marie Hamilton is a writer, actor and theatre maker. She trained with Philippe Gaulier and has worked with directors including Sally Cookson.[1], Bryony Kimmings[2] Stephanie Kempson and Hildegard Ryan.
She makes dark, political comedy, and is mostly known for her theatre work, though she works across film and performance art too.
She is a regular collaborator with London based choral collective Musarc[3] and was commissioned by Post Disaster Rooftops to make a piece for them for "The End Of The World Service" which took over a Spartan Island, Citta Vechia in Taranto, Italy. "Part protest, part performance art opera" the piece was inspired by the Tarantism rituals of the area and the Mamme Tamburi, mothers from the Tamburi area of the city protesting the Ilva steel plant.[4]
In 2024 she toured her adaptation of Polly, John Gay's sequel to the Beggar's Opera, while seven months pregnant[5]. Polly (The Heartbreak Opera) was made in 2017 in Berlin with long time collaborators, Cameron Macintosh award winning composer Ben Osborn, Madeline Shann, and Stephanie Kempson of Sharp Teeth Theatre. It later toured to The Lowry, Bristol Old Vic, The Greenwich Theatre and The Pleasance, and the Barnfield Theatre, Exeter.
In it she played 5 characters, including Lucy Lockit who in the play is pregnant with Macheath's child, as well as playing the baby's father Captain Macheath,[6] (otherwise known as Mack the Knife) himself. Described as "such a complex parody I thought my male brain might evaporate. Theatre is at its best when it’s difficult to compute and there’s just so much going on: layers, contradictions and paradoxes that you’re just left thinking, ‘I believe this moment to be very, very good’."[7]
Her first solo show Madonna On The Rocks will premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2025. It was made with Ben Osborn and Hildegard Ryan, with direction from Stephanie Kempson and Steve Hudson. It is about Hamilton's experiences of becoming a mother while trying to hold on to artistic life, and has songs inspired by Peaches, Madonna and Nina Simone.
References
[edit]- ^ "Cast announced for The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe at West Yorkshire Playhouse - Newsplate". britishtheatre.com. Retrieved 2025-06-03.
- ^ "MADONNA ON THE ROCKS". Marie Hamilton. Retrieved 2025-06-03.
- ^ "The End of the World Service. Musarc in the Land of Remorse. Taranto, Italy, 27—29 May 2022". Musarc. Retrieved 2025-06-03.
- ^ Redazione (2019-03-06). "Taranto, le mamme di Tamburi "chiudono" l'ex Ilva per protesta". La Nuova Ecologia (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-06-03.
- ^ Pucadyil, Anisha (2024-05-15). "Polly (The Heartbreak Opera) – Pleasance Theatre". North West End UK. Retrieved 2025-06-03.
- ^ Admin. "Polly (The Heartbreak Opera) – Pleasance Theatre | Musical Theatre Review". Retrieved 2025-06-03.
- ^ laurakressly (2024-05-14). "Polly (The Heartbreak Opera), Pleasance Theatre". The Play's The Thing UK. Retrieved 2025-06-03.