Theatre
Le Mar launched her professional theatre career in 1994 with her comedy sketch show Funny Black Women On The Edge which premiered at The Civic Centre in Southwark, London, which she wrote and also made her first directing debut, playing several characters. The show went on to play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, at the Gilded Balloon in the same year. The show played at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in November 1995, directed by Paulette Randall
The show was reprised again in 2007 The Best Of Funny Black Women on The Edge through Le Mar's recently formed production company Straight To Audience Productions. at the Hackney Empire, directed by Jo Martin and Dawn Reid.
Le Mar wrote her show The Brothers which was originally aired as a radio production on Choice FM produced by Ivor Etienne. Written in 2006 and directed by Le Mar, the show made its theatre debut at the Hackney Empire and became the fastest-selling show there since Hamlet. The Brothers was also recorded for television and shown on MTV Base.
In 2007 Le Mar wrote Do You Know Where Your Daughter Is?. Whilst working as a radio presenter on Choice FM, Le Mar was moved by a call she received on her phone in show from a distressed young lady who had been abused by her boyfriend. The contents of the call inspired her to write the play, which was targeted predominantly to young audiences and parents. The play premiered at the Hackney Empires' Acorn Theatre and ran for 8 weeks. It was toured throughout the London Region and the suburbs between 2008–2009, and played at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Gilded Balloon in August 2010. There are ongoing plans to tour the show nationally in 2011.
The most recent play written by Le Mar is Forty in which she played the character "Sandra" was premiered at the Hackney Empire in 2008 and again at The Broadway Theatre, Catford in 2009, directed by Karena Johnson. Discussions are ongoing for a television series. Le Mar directed other productions including "Waiting to Inhale" written by comedian and broadcaster Geoff Schumann which played at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in 1997, "Will The Real Wayne Rollins Stand Up" one man show at the Hackney Empires' Bullion Room Theatre in 2002, and "Big Sister" featuring Donna Spence and Quincy, also at Hackney's Bullion Room Theatre in 2003.
Le Mar continues to work with young people through her production company Straight To Audience Productions, and has recently set up a strand within the organisation called Straight To Audience Youth (STAY). Her workshops include writing and directing and stand up comedy masterclasses.
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“Mankind’s common instinct for reality ... has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life’s supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man’s frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.”
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