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Maddy Moore
@chunchilla.bsky.social
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Award winning Stage/Screen Director. ADHD. Often found in prisons. Shortlist RTST Peter Hall Award, #MGCfutures, OV12, AD @TheThelmas.bsky.social, #TWITCHINGfilm, #LADYKILLERplay #SonOfABitchPlay #SantiAndNaz #OUTPATIENT
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2020:

2025:
Young Global Majority woman sitting on a bench putting on her ballet shoes. Caption says ‘Fatima’s next job could be in cyber… (She just doesn’t know it yet)’
August 14, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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4 images of Kim Kardashian on the phone explaining to Courtney that the family have a Whatsapp group labelled ‘Not Courtney’ so they can shield her from what her friends are saying about her. The text ‘Not Courtney’ has been changed to ‘Not Elon’
March 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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30 plays/productions that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 30 days.

No explanations, no reviews, just an image.

Day 30 - The Flick by Annie Baker. Dir: Sam Gold. National Theatre 2016

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one man sits back in a cinema seat. another man stands over him menacingly holding a broom handle. a third man stands behind observing.
March 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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30 plays/productions that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 30 days.

No explanations, no reviews, just an image.

Day 29 - Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo (Tom Basden). Dir: Daniel Raggett. Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2023

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A man stands on a table in the centre of an office space. Three police officers are around him, looking up at him. Papers fly about in the air.
March 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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30 plays/productions that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 30 days.

No explanations, no reviews, just an image.

Day 28 Medea adapted by, Kate Mulvany and Anne-Louise Sarks. Gate Theatre, 2015

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A young boy plays with a toy gun. We can see the audience behind him.
March 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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30 plays/productions that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 30 days.

No explanations, no reviews, just an image.

Day 27- The Wild Duck, Ibsen adapted by Simon Stone & Chris Ryan, Dir: Simon Stone. Barbican Theatre, 2014

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An older man kneels contemplating a duck floating in a perspex pool on wheels
March 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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What in the Zone of Interest is going on here?
Posing with his human shield, Elong Musk shows off his new Nazi haircut.
March 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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30 plays/productions that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 30 days.

No explanations, no reviews, just an image.

Day 26 - We Are Ian by In Bed With My Brother. Pleasance Dome, 2016.

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Three young women in white dungarees dance with full body big angular movements.
March 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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30 plays/productions that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 30 days.

No explanations, no reviews, just an image.

Day 25 - The Three Sisters adapted & directed by Benedict Andrews. Young Vic Theatre 2012

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A young woman in a long black dress stands on a mound of earth in front of a wall of stacked tables.
March 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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30 plays/productions that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 30 days.

No explanations, no reviews, just an image.

Day 24 - The Encounter adapted & directed by Simon McBurney, co-directed by Kirsty Housley. Barbican 2018

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A man in a grey shirt, blue jeans and a khaki cap is moving fast across a textured green backdrop. A binaural head shaped mic is on a stand in front of him.
March 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Lol… my legal name is so common, so basically can be anywhere south of Newcastle or Aberdeen, but my chosen professional name sends me back a bit North from where my family were from 100 yrs ago! 🫶🏻
Map showing high and low areas for the name ‘Smith’ Map showing high and low areas for the name ‘Moore’
March 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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30 plays/productions that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 30 days.

No explanations, no reviews, just an image.

Day 23 - An Octoroon by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins. Dir: Ned Bennett. Orange Tree Theatre, 2017

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Two men face each other shouting. One is a black man wearing a blonde wig and whiteface make up. The other is a white man. Both have no shirt on.
March 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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I’m enjoying this too much… gonna do 30 days.

30 plays/productions that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 30 days.

No explanations, no reviews, just an image.

Day 22- The Sewing Group by EV Crowe. Dir: Steward Laing. Royal Court 2016

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3 women in black period clothing sit sewing. A man dressed in black is leaving via a door at the back.
March 12, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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BONUS OPERA EDITION!
20 plays/productions that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days.

No explanations, no reviews, just an image.

Day 21 - Festen libretto by Lee Hall. Music by Mark-Anthony Turnage. Dir: Richard Jones. Royal Opera House, 2025

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A man stands on a huge dining table giving a speech. Guests are all around - some sitting at the table, some gathering at the back and the sides.
March 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Choose 20 plays/productions that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, in no particular order
No explanations, no reviews, just an image.

Day 20 - Roman Tragedies adapted and directed by Ivo Van Hove. Barbican, 2017

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Hans Kesting leans over a ‘dead’ body laying in state shouting into a microphone A group of people meeting in a corporate office space. A large screen above shows a man in the group in close up
March 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Spring be springing! 😍🌞
Close up of purple crocus in bloom
March 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Choose 20 plays/productions that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, in no particular order
No explanations, no reviews, just an image.

Day 19 - Miss Revolutionary Idol Berserker by Toco Nikaido. LIFT Festival at Barbican Theatre, 2016

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A group of performers with streamers, confetti and bits of paper exploding around them. A group of performer in leotards, wigs and furry hats perform a chaotic workout routine with glitter confetti flying around them.
March 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
chunchilla.bsky.social
Choose 20 plays/productions that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, in no particular order
No explanations, no reviews, just an image.

Day 18 - Lady Eats Apple by Back To Back Theatre. LIFT Festival at Barbican Theatre, 2018

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3 people in blue and white joggers stand looking at each other. A man in a brown suit stands with his back to them looking at words projected on to the wall. They read ‘Do not ear the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil or you will die.’ Two people look at a childish drawing of a horse projected on to the wall behind. The floor is low lit with red LED lights around the edge.
March 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Choose 20 plays/productions that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, in no particular order
No explanations, no reviews, just an image.

Day 17 - Emilia by @mogster.bsky.social. Dir: Nicole Charles. Shakespeare’s Globe, 2018

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Three black women in matching blue period costumes holding a blue book each. The woman in front is speaking, the two behind writing in their books.
March 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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I really appreciate artists who approach me to do 1 person shows, but I’d absolutely love to do something with a cast of 3 plus actors again. I have done loads of large cast directing at drama schools & youth theatre - even youth musicals in massive venues like Playhouse Theatre! I am v capable! 😅
A group of young people in uniforms pledge allegiance. One holds a banner which says ‘Land of my birth. Land of my people’ A man in workwear is roughly holding a woman round her thighs. She is in a nightdress. She is trying to wriggle free. A group of young women react to a pair of young women boxing. One has just knocked the other hard who is reeling backwards. A group of women crouch down. They are crying/ growling at each other.
March 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Hustle time: Last year I directed 5 studio shows, all got 4/5 star reviews across the board, 2 won awards. Currently have a 5 star show running in London…
but I need to make a mid/main stage show! I’ve been at this for over 12yrs now!

Any venues/prod companies up for a chat about future projects?
5 woman and one man in a panic over a smoking pile of fabric. They are wearing period costume. One woman holds a modern fire extinguisher. Three women in swimsuits sit on office wheelie chairs but are moving as though they are swimming. There is a mist around them. The woman in front wears a yellow bobble hat. 4 people in black suits and white shirts shout at each other across a woman who is sitting in the centre wearing a red formal dress. A woman stands in the foreground holding a shotgun. She looks on edge. Behind her three more people stand static on a raised platform looking down over her
March 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Choose 20 plays/productions that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, in no particular order
No explanations, no reviews, just an image.

Day 16- The Fire Raisers by Max Frisch (never seen it, but I’d direct it in a heartbeat! Any takers?)

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Play text cover ‘Herr Biedermann und die Brandstifter’ by Max Frisch
March 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Choose 20 plays/productions that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, in no particular order
No explanations, no reviews, just an image.

Day 15- The Father by Florian Zeller, Trans: Christopher Hampton, Dir: James Macdonald. Duke Of York’s Theatre. 2015

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A woman and an older man face each other. The older man is holding the woman’s shoulder as though reassuring her.
March 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Choose 20 plays/productions that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, in no particular order
No explanations, no reviews, just an image.

Day 14 - Martyr by Marius von Mayenburg. Unicorn Theatre, 2015

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A man, a woman and a teenage boy sit round a desk piled high with files and folders. The boy is wearing an ape mask. There is an educational skeleton on a stand next to them and another desk.
March 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Choose 20 plays/productions that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, in no particular order
No explanations, no reviews, just an image.

Day 13 - Village Idiot by Samson Hawkins. Dir: Nadia Fall. Stratford East, 2023

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A man and a woman stand in front of a red theatre curtain. They are holding hands and singing. They are dressed like they are at a rural village fete. Hanging in front of the curtain is a life sized puppet of Queen Elizabeth II and two corgis.
March 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM