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  • Martin Moriarty

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    Martin Moriarty is a queer theatre-maker. As artistic director of Inky Cloak, he co-created Cover Her Face (Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, February 2014) – which re-staged Jacobean tragedy The Duchess of Malfi as a show about trans vulnerability in 1950s London; We Raise Our Hands in the Sanctuary (The Albany, February 2017) – which celebrated the power of queer spaces in the face of 21st century gentrification; and Songs in the Dark (The Albany, April 2018) – which explored the pressures on older LGBTQ+ people living in sheltered accommodation and care homes. Virginia Woolf’s Dog Training Academy is his first solo show.

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    Martin Moriarty presents

    Virginia Woolf's Dog Training Academy

    Wed 17 - Thu 18 Jan at 9pm
    Martin wants his dog Lucky to live in freedom off the lead. So he embarks on a quest to find the queer alternative to obedience classes they both need.
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    Martin Moriarty presents

    No Beauty, Just The Beast

    Sat 17th May at 3pm
    Once upon a time in a faraway land called the 1990s, a young gay man transformed into a hideous Beast must find a way to escape his enchantment.

    Blog Posts by Martin Moriarty

    Posted: 04-04-2025 Tag: news

    Announcing our new starting blocks artists

    We’re thrilled to announce the 2025 Starting Blocks artists: a vibrant mix of daring work, from an exceptional group of boundary pushing artists. 


    A churchyard with autumn leaves falling on green grass, featuring a red granite headstone to Greyfriars Bobby on the left and the new memorial statue of the dog set in a flowerbed on the right, in front of one of the outer walls of the church.
    Posted: 21-12-2023 Tag: artist blogs

    Greyfriars Bobby was an ethical slut

    The dominant thinking about how humans and dogs make lives together was minted in the Victorian era, when the Edinburgh stray Greyfriars Bobby became the poster-boy for some very heteronormative ideas about deathless fidelity – despite living a kind of queer existence in a network of caring connections.

    Martin Moriarty reflects on his bid to overthrow these Victorian values through his queer liberationist fable, Virginia Woolf’s Dog Training Academy, part of the More Than Human Festival at CPT.


    “It means so much to be working at CPT, it’s such a good opportunity to work in a professional environment at my age. I didn’t think that was ever going to happen and it means the world to me. It’s really going to help prepare me for my future and where I want to go”

    CYT participant and Camden student