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Martin Malcolm
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playwright /scribbler / AD with Critical Moment Theatre

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https://www.criticalmoment.co.uk/
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You can catch my interview with GWS Radio on listen again at 8:20 mins.

OPEN DOOR - QUEER FREEDOM UNLOCKED

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #LGBTQ+ #GayHistory #QueerTheatre

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September 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Holiday reading!

#booksky #lgbtq
A copy of The Two Roberts by Damian Barr sits on a park bench. A Gay’s The Word bookmark is tucked into its pages.
September 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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On a dark February night in 1954, a young Exeter lad changed all our lives. Find out how…

OPEN DOOR
🗓️ Sat 19th July, 3:30pm
📍 Barnfield Theatre Exeter
📞Box Office: 01392 772 63 63

TIX
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#Theatre #Playwright #LGBTQ+
Poster for Open Door - Queer Freedom Unlocked. The image shows a dark, green-tiled corridor with a barred gate opening on daylight. There’s a logo for Critical Moment Theatre: on a red disc, the white shape of a figure about to cross a line.
July 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Who knew? The struggle for queer freedom in the UK started in Exeter!

Find out how at Exeter’s Barnfield Theatre on 19th July.

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E-flyer for Open Door - Queer Freedom Unlocked. The image shows a dark, green-tiled corridor, with a barred gate opening on daylight. Below is Critical Moment Theatre’s logo: on a red disc, the white shape of a figure about to cross a line.
July 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Casting call for upcoming readings of my new play!

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#TheatreSky #LGBTQ+Pride #ActorSky
Photo of a green-tiled corridor, with a barred gate opening onto daylight. Titles: Open Door – Queer freedom unlocked. Below that, the logo for Critical Moment Theatre: on a red background, the white shape of a figure about to cross a line. OPEN DOOR CASTING CALL OUT We are casting for a rehearsed reading of a brand new play inspired by true events. ‘Open Door’ by Martin Malcolm uncovers the roots of gay liberation in the rural South West and an unlikely activist who opened the way to the more free and equal society we know today. We are casting the following roles: DR JEAN SHELDON female, thirties, steely RUBY CALTON female, early twenties, nervous but determined DENNIS REECE male, early twenties, shifty The setting is Wells, Somerset 1954 (with a story connecting Exeter to Taunton) DATES: APPLY BY: Monday 23rd June AUDITION: Tuesday 1st July (Afternoon) REHEARSALS: Tuesday 15th July 10-6pm Exeter Thursday 17th July 10-6pm Exeter Friday 18th July 10-6pm Exeter PERFORMANCE DAYS: Saturday 19th July 10-6pm Barnfield Theatre, Exeter Saturday 20th September - Brewhouse, Taunton FEE: £150 per day, including performance days, i.e. £750 in total. (Please note while some travel costs can be covered we are looking for actors with a Devon/Cornwall/Somerset base) We’re open to diverse and inclusive casting and will be delighted to receive applications from global majority, LGBTQ+ and non-binary performers. TO APPLY: Please send your CV/Spotlight link with a short cover email detailing which role you would like to be considered for and your connection to the South West. Email: criticalmomenttheatre@gmail.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Reading this ahead of my talk for Wells Pride on Saturday. It’s all kinds fabulous! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#LGBTQ+Pride #BookSky
A copy of The Light of Day by Christopher Stephens and Louise Radnofsky. Billed on the cover with: ‘The first man to come out at the dawn of gay liberation.’ The cover shows a 1960s photo of Roger Butler. There’s also a quote from Sir Ian McKellen: ‘Your book is the “really good book. Just one” that Roger Butler would have wanted. ‘
June 12, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Delighted to be part of #LGBTQ+Pride in my old hometown!

Come & hear the story of a long-lost gay activist!

Hit the link to join us. Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

14 June, Wells Town Hall, Somerset

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Promo image for Open Door. The strapline reads 'Queer freedom unlocked'. The image shows a shadowy green-tiled corridor, with a barred door open to the light of day. Critical Moment Theatre's logo - a figure about to cross a line, white on a red background - is at the bottom of the image.
June 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Fabulous.
Posters for An Oak Tree at The Young Vic. By Tim Crouch, limited run from 6th May. The image shows Tim, a man in his sixties, in a shiny waistcoat. Behind him, two rows of black-and-white headshots of the guest actors who will join him onstage.
May 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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‘Not the courts, not the state
We decide our own fate.’

Love & solidarity to my trans brothers & sisters, from the Trans Rights action in a packed Parliament Square today. 🏳️‍⚧️

#NoLGBwithouttheT #TransRightsNow
Statue of Suffragette leader Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square. She holds a banner which reads: ‘Courage calls to courage everywhere.’ Behind her banner, a protestor’s arm reaches up to hold a pink-white-and-light-blue placard, which says: ‘What are you so afraid of?’
April 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The Transgender Pride Flag, with stripes (from the top) in light blue, pink, white, pink and light blue.
April 19, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Need character names & ideas? Why not take inspiration from your pets?

Meet Dingo, my friend Sal’s dog. Translated to human form for my new script: a couch-hogging greedy layabout who knows how to turn on the charm with his big soulful eyes.

Thanks, Ding! 🐾

#theatresky #playwriting #playwright
Dingo, lying soulfully on the couch, ready to provide inspiration. He’s mottled grey-and-white and Sal says he’s an Australian cattle dog, though I happen to know he comes from Wales.
April 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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On days like this, that’s what note-taking is for.

#playwriting #theatresky
A battered old brick wall, made up of whitewashed, battered old bricks.
April 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Such a sweet & silly film!

🍿 🐾
Ad for The Summer With Carmen. In UK cinemas from 28 February, digital and disc 31 March. By Peccadillo Pictures. The image shows gay buddies Demosthenes and Nikitas, snacking on cherries as they lounge on a beach. Beside them, Carmen, a little mongrel, looks on soulfully.
March 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Drive Back Home, what a dazzle of a movie today at BFI Flare! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#FilmSky
Auditorium filling up for the movie, part of BFI Flare 2025. All red velour seats and the screen lit up with the BFI Flare logo.
March 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Modern nature in all its glorious, fluid, ebb and flow.

So glad I caught this fabulous play @bushtheatre.bsky.social !
Poster for Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew at The Bush Theatre. By Coral Wylie, directed by Debbie Hannan. World Premiere, 8 Febuary till 22 March. Two characters, Pip and Duncan, gaze out with half-smiles. They’re surrounded by a lush garden.
March 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Stumbling through this in my schoolboy French & it is a *revelation* comparing the two texts!

#Booksky #Theatresky #Playwriting
En Attendant Godot, by Samuel Beckett, bilingual edition, French & English. Published by Faber & Faber. On the cover, Beckett lounges existentially against a background of half-glimpsed notes and characters.
March 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Mum & toddler.

MUM: So you’re telling me at Nursery you’re stealing someone else’s dummy, using it while you’re there, washing it and giving it back when you go home?

TODDLER: Yeah.

#TheatreSky #Playwriting
Calling card: ‘You were overheard by a passing playwright. THANK YOU.’
March 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Theatre tonight!

# TheatreSky
Playbill for Farewell Mister Haffman by Jean-Phillipe Daguerre at The Park Theatre
March 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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One day, I’m gonna write a whole play in the language of a funding app.

#playwriting #revenge
Colourful infographic with the words: overheads, networks, step-change, workshop, tool, identity, tasks, potential, under-represented, ambitious, values, work-sample, facilitate, theatremaker, cultural, eligibility, voices, aims, reflect, legacy, R&D, residency, challenge, focus, social, dramaturgical, risk-takers, pitch, themes, assets, benefit, inequality, emerging, creative, mentor, relevant, partnership, practitioner, character-count, commissions, hard-to-access, engagement
March 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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On the way home after our walk, we found this, neatly left outside a bar…

And asking to be put into a play.

#TheatreSky #playwriting
Neatly laid out on the pavemrnt: a short, spangly silver party dress. Neatly to one side, a pair of red velvet pixie boots.
January 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Hugely looking forward to this at The Park tonight!

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#theatresky
Playbill for Cyrano at The Park Theatre. By Virginia Gay after Edmond Rostand. The image shows Cyrano and Roxanne, two contemporary young women, sharing a laugh at the foot of Michelangelo’s David.
December 17, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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Fabulous! Any more overhears, I am always in the market for them! #playwriting
Little card that says: ‘You were overheard by a passing playwright. THANK YOU.’
December 16, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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Train’s late obviously, no catering obviously, but at least my train reading is fab.

#theatresky #playwriting #booksky
The Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell. On the cover, a stencil of a shadowy young man in a smart suit. He has his hands in his pockets and a white heart on his chest. The stencil is on the cracked plaster of a wall and at the knees, our boy turns to paint trickles.
December 14, 2024 at 11:10 AM
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FAB present from my #playwright mate @brianscoyle.bsky.social!

This is of course how all playwrights live.

#theatresky
Tennessee Williams Notebooks, edited by Margaret Bradham Thornton. Yale University Press. On the cover a moody monochrome photo of a young Williams in full-on playwright mode, with dressing gown and cigarette holder.
December 6, 2024 at 12:48 PM
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Remembering them all.

#WorldAIDSDay
A red AIDs ribbon pinned to a black coat.
December 1, 2024 at 8:46 AM