Martha Pailing: Chat Shit, Get Hit (Work in Progress)

Martha Pailing

Martha Pailing is a Blackpool-born spoken word and performance artist. Her work considers what it is to remain empathetic in a brutal and emotionally temperamental world.

A former artist in residence at the Roundhouse, her past work includes commissions for The Royal Court, Essex Book Festival, METAL Southend and Penned In The Margins. She has performed at venues across the UK including the Roundhouse, The Royal Court, the Barbican Centre, LADA, People’s Palace, Curve Theatre and Bootleg Social.

Martha studied performance at Queen Mary University of London.

Press & Reviews

Praise for previous work:

Martin O'Brien
'Stunning work. What could have been cheap sensationalism in lesser hands was made profound, uncomfortable and uncompromising here.”

Live4ever.uk
'Pailing’s style is surreal and subject to extreme flights of fancy but keeps its feet on the ground at all times. A name that you’ll definitely be hearing again in the future.'

altBlackpool
‘Martha Pailing’s performance is beguilingly wide eyed and profoundly honest. She draws us in quickly and keeps us there until the end, as we relate and meditate in equal shares on the minutiae of life she presents to us’

QMULSED.co.uk
‘Gutsy, voluble and grotesque, Martha Pailing’s piece is a wonderfully unseemly and weird outpouring of speech… the language of the piece has a strange, distinctive poetry”

Cast & Creative Team Writer & Performer: Martha Pailing

Dramaturg: Annie Siddons

Creative Producer: Jet Vevers