Ladykiller was awarded the VAULT Festival 2019 Pleasance Award, given to a show of outstanding quality across Pleasance venues. 

by Madeline Gould

 

 

A chambermaid, a hotel room and a dead woman. It’s not what it looks like, really, it’s not. It was self-defence… and anyway the woman was asking for it.

 

The chambermaid considers herself to be a pretty normal person; she reads books. She pretended to read the party manifestos at the General Election.  She’s even read The Psychopath Test and she’s pretty sure she’s not one so…

 

Ladykiller is a blood-soaked morality tale about power, privilege, and tearing up the gender rule book on psychopathy; a jet-black comedy for the age of the gig economy.

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Ladykiller presents us with a genuinely complex and compelling female character, tapping into the feminist zeitgeist in a most unexpected way.

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LADYKILLER was declared 'a smash hit' after a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe 2018 which garnered considerable critical acclaim..

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐    ‘a smash hit at this fringe and beyond’ – Broadway Baby

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐  ‘Madeline Gould's script is unflinching…’- The Skinny 

 

⭐ ⭐⭐⭐⭐   ‘an eerily convincing portrait of an unhinged mind.’  Three Weeks

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐    ‘a very funny and refreshingly offbeat comedy from The Thelmas.’ – The Stage

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐    ‘ Hannah McClean is superb as the maid.’ – The Scotsman

 

⭐ ⭐⭐⭐     ‘a bracing… monologue of fierce intensity.’ – The List

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐  ‘a mesmeric performance.’ – Fringe Guru

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐  ‘A bloody brilliant hymn to the dark side of a zero hours worker’ - To Do List

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐  ‘one of the best written one-woman pieces at this year’s Fringe’ - Miro Magazine

 

‘with a political bite beneath the surface of its humour...a hilariously dark comic monologue’ - - Exeunt Magazine

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Ladykiller was the result of research, development and support from The Pleasance Theatre, Oldham Coliseum and Ovalhouse Theatre.

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