Chat Shit, Get Hit

Martha Pailing | 2025

Combining live art, spoken word and football chants, Chat Shit, Get Hit dives into women’s anger: how it fuels, how it festers and how it is swallowed. A funny and uncompromising personal exploration of recovery, solidarity and the suppression of women’s rage.

This is Martha Pailing’s debut theatre show. She absolutely smashed it at her first Edinburgh Fringe with critics and audiences, and even won an award for Best Spoken Word and Storytelling.

.…remarkably sensitive, thoughtful, funny, and clever.
Pailing’s rage is totally glorious, completely justified, and undeniably necessary.
★★★★★ Cor Blimey

…funny, razor-sharp and precisely judged.
★★★★ The Scotsman

A stunning piece of theatre.
What The Fringe

A tour de force of female rage and vulnerability.
★★★★ A Young(ish) Perspective