Madeleine Wood

Philadelphia

Podcast Producer at Freelance

Podcast producer. I am a giant ear for your stories.

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Articles

Me and My Year of Casual 'Monasticism'

2 weeks ago | thetab.com | Madeleine Wood

‘The worst man you’ve ever met is probably a land economist’ 2 mins ago “How many of you have ever been called a whore? How many of you have ever called yourself a whore?”What an opener! To preface this review, Me and My Year of Casual ‘Monasticism’ is a really strong production with much to recommend it—but I personally wasn’t convinced.
Review: MESSIAH

2 weeks ago | thetab.com | Madeleine Wood

“What breaks a great leader?” 6 seconds ago We are in Westminster 2025, inside the campaign of maverick frontrunner for leader of the opposition, Stu Bailey. We join with Sophie, principled and driven, in her new role as parliamentary aid, and are caught up in currents of breaking scandal as Sophie, and indeed we, are forced to confront that paradox between ambition and integrity and whether or not they are incompatible in the merciless political climate of the City.
Sidge's Top Spots for Lunch and Coffee

2 weeks ago | thetab.com | Madeleine Wood

With the demise of the delightful Harvey’s Coffee House humanities students find their options for lunch and much needed caffeination breaks thinned. 5 seconds ago With the demise of the delightful Harvey’s Coffee House, Humanities students find their options for lunch and much needed caffeination breaks thinned.
Cambridge Chancellor hopeful wants to halt cash donations from oil firms

2 weeks ago | thetab.com | Madeleine Wood

Tony Booth wants the university to be an ethical force 4 seconds ago Tony Booth, who is competing against Sandi Toksvig and a former head of BP, wants the university to be an ethical force. The broadcaster Sandi Toksvig and Lord Browne of Madingley, the former boss of the oil giant BP, are among well-known names vying to become the new chancellor of Cambridge University.
Review: The 67s

3 weeks ago | thetab.com | Madeleine Wood

William Lloyd’s The 67s is one part historical research project and one part exercise in humanity 5 seconds ago “All I know is that it’s a great big war and all the boys keep going into it”It is 4:30 am Easter Monday 1917, and we are underground. We join three Canadian soldiers, Grange, Goodman and Cavalier, as they count down the minutes until they must pick up their rifles and go over the top. William Lloyd‘s The 67s is one part historical research project and one part exercise in humanity.
Preview: Dr Faustus

1 month ago | thetab.com | Madeleine Wood

The hubris of academia comes to Cambridge in a timely production of Dr Faustus. 5 seconds ago ‘Had I as many souls as there be stars, I’d give them all for Mephistopheles’ Doctor Faustus, directed by Toby Trusted, is showing Tue 6th – Sat 10th May in the ADC Theatre. This production picks up a notorious tale of ambition, folly and satanic persuasion.
Death of the June Event?

2 months ago | varsity.co.uk | Madeleine Wood

This spring, Emma’s June Event lost out due to lower than anticipated external sales. Then, Sidney’s Midsummer May Week Event was quietly felled late in the day, leaving Trinity Hall’s June Event clinging on precariously. Robinson had long swapped out their May Ball for a ‘mega-bop’. With intercollegiate deals appealing to Hill colleges still not enough to meet external sales targets, committees cut their losses and defer to benevolent larger scale balls offering discount tickets to those affected.
Everybody's Talking About Jamie

2 months ago | thetab.com | Madeleine Wood

“The boy’s so nice he came out twice” 5 seconds ago The Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club’s production of Everyone’s Talking About Jamie is warm, crackling and terse for all 165 minutes of its runtime. We meet Jamie New, a vivacious and energetic Mathew Weatherhead, who wants simply to be a drag queen. The problem? He is 16 in Sheffield. We follow Jamie and his charming found family through the pains of stigma and euphoric highs of self-expression.
Review: Antigone

Feb 28, 2025 | thetab.com | Madeleine Wood

As the anguish and treason unfolds, members of this doomed royal unit hang up their coats and roll up their sleeves 5 seconds ago “I never doubted for an instant that you would have me put to death”. The Pembroke Players’ Antigone (Jean Anouilh trans. Lewis Galantiere) begins by telling us exactly how it will end.
Review: Blackout Songs

Feb 24, 2025 | thetab.com | Madeleine Wood

Despite starting with our couple going drinking from an AA meeting and taking us down every step of the way with them, until the last minute of its runtime Blackout Songs retains its power to shock. 4 seconds ago Art, Failing Memory and Annihilating Love. “You told me you loved me, once. You said you carried me. You remember that? You still carry me? Or did you drop me, somewhere along the line?”Memory is tricky in the Lady Margaret Players’ spin on Joe White’s Blackout Songs.