Madonna On The Rocks is a about madness and maternal rage and the struggle to be an artist, or to have any sort of career at all really, and still be a reasonably present parent.

 

It was made at Ufer Studios in Berlin and Greenwich Theatre with multi-award winning composer Ben Osborn and Fringe First Award winning director Hildegard Ryan.

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It's a visceral, heartbreaking call to arms, with original music inspired by Peaches, Madonna and Nina Simone.

 

I wrote it in the dark days of early motherhood with my first baby. I was diagnosed with post partum depression and this is a show about how I clawed my way out. ​It's dark but it's very funny.​

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It had sell-out runs of the work-in-progress versions at the Greenwich Theatre and Vault Festival in January and was nominated for the Brighton Fringe Awards after another sell-out run at the Rotunda. ​​​

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"Marie Hamilton enters covered in towels, heavily pregnant and dressed as the Virgin Mary circa 90's nativity play. With a headdress made of plastic cutlery, cable ties and fairy lights. The scene is batshit and endearingly DIY, framed in such a way as to defy any genre... Marie is a powerful stage presence, and bold." 

Read full article in Off Chance Magazine

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"This show is for everyone, whether they have kids, are thinking about maybe, potentially having kids in the future, or if they’ve just been inside a womb at some point. If we can make the people pushing the next generation around in prams feel braver, happier, less alone and more fulfilled- the world will be a better place."

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I did the work-in-progress runs increasingly pregnant with my second child, and gave birth two weeks after my last shows in Brighton.

 

The plan for 2025 is to redevelop it so he can still be on stage with me... just asleep in his buggy this time. 

 

Timed to coincide with his midday nap, he will invariably wake up at some point, but neither I nor the audience will know exactly when that will be.

 

When he does, the show will have to go on. I'll put him in a sling, give him snacks and things to play with, or pass him to audience members to hold. It will create a beautiful, exciting, edge of the seat chaos, much like parenting is, much of the time. The audience will watch and be a part of a real Mum's real struggle to keep the show on the road. 

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"Raising children is terrifying and beautiful and boring and brilliant all at the same time. It can be incredibly lonely and you can think you’re going completely insane. I hope this show will be a beam of light in the darkness, a joyous, hilarious celebration of all those contradictions, and of all those who have gone before and lit our way.”

Read full article in London News Online​

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