Martin Ward reveals he's the first ever Irish Traveller stand-up comedian, a community rarely seen in showbiz.
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Martin Ward turns comedy into a sharp, personal case for self-definition from within a community.
Stand-up here turns into a careful question of who gets to speak for Martin Ward's Traveller community, and who gets to laugh with it. In conversation with Olly Mann, Ward frames performance as empowerment: a way of turning experience from a rarely represented community into…
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You want a sharp, careful comedy conversation with Martin Ward, a Traveller comedian using the stage to speak from inside a rarely represented community.
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