Nikhil Vyas
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lapsed Croydonian | theatre director | Lao Gan Ma simp | next: The Mosinee Project @FollowTheCow | prev: Bhangra Nation: A New Musical @BirminghamRep | he/him
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'Can you get away with just imagining?'
The Mosinee Project is finally open.
I can't begin to express what it means to have this show meeting audiences. If you're in Edinburgh this month, come give it a watch
@FollowTheCow
- the artistry behind it is exceptional.
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i was today years old when I learned ‘Le Creuset’ means ‘The Crucible’.
Arthur Miller’s Le Creuset
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can confirm this happened, and that I lost my job around 9.30pm last night, and that i can now go ahead and properly @ them- absolutely fuck
@Tate
support
@Tate_United
@tate
waiting til 9-10.30pm on a Friday night, at the start of a Bank Holiday weekend, to send out hundreds of emails to retail staff telling them who’s lost their job and who hasn’t
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the truth is that Trump didn’t get into the Royal Court playwriting group and all this is just a desperate plot for pity
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can’t believe this is how i’m finding out I didn’t get it. industry, be better. send those rejection emails.
Breaking: Indhu Rubasingham (
@IRubasingham
) has been appointed the new director of the
@NationalTheatre
, becoming the first woman and first person of colour to hold the post.
Read the full story:
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grotesque shit. absolutely nothing this govt will say in the coming days and weeks abt its commitment to the Ukrainian ppl will mean a thing while this vile bill is still on the table
the UK has stopped accepting visa applications from ukrainians. home office, иди нахуй
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You haven’t programmed a single full production of a play by a Black writer in 10 years. “DADDY” is the first since 2010
We stand in solidarity with the Black activists and protestors who are fighting against injustice
#blacklivesmatter
Today we share speeches from Black political activists of the past and Young Leaders of today, filmed as part of our Figures of Speech project in 2017 & 2018
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Is there a market for making verbatim theatre about inherently silly things? Like the rise and fall of London’s American Candy Stores
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why does this look like he's got into the Old Vic 12
One year ago I was preparing for my first ever Budget.
A lot has happened since then, but the promises that underpin our plan remain unchanged.
Watch below 👇
#Budget2021
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imagine being the guardian, and writing 3 star reviews of live-streams voluntarily given by freelance artists in an imploding industry in the middle of a pandemic. galaxy brain shit
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big 'TheSpace on the Mile' energy
BREAKING
New Downing Street Press Briefing Room - first images.
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some p*rsonal news while we wait for Trump’s next meltdown- overjoyed to be joining this theatre and this team! 🥳
NEWS! Welcome our new team members.
💼Almost a year after interviewing (!)
@reecemcmahon
joins as PRODUCER.
🔮
@ShankhoC
is our STAFF ASSOCIATE DESIGNER, leading our renewed focus on design.
📝
@Nikhilv95
joins as EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT to our AD.
👁️ here:
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🔥Some personal news🔥
Pleased to announce that I’ve joined
@ace_national
. specifically I’ll be part of the new Digital Policy team, working to eventually replace all Project Grants with NFTs of David Hare’s face. watch this space!
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stunned and delighted to say I’ve been awarded an
@ace_national
DYCP grant for developing my skills as a dramaturg and on working with new plays! 🤓📖
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it truly does not get edgier than the time I directed Blasted at uni lol
Remember in student theatre when the team would change their Facebook profile pic to a pic of them in costume w their name & role in a branding template. So funny. Is that still a thing?
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for anyone who is stumbling across this and isn’t up to date with the shite I usually post - I cannot stress enough that this is a joke
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🚨 ASSISTANT DIRECTOR CALLOUT 🚨
seeking an early career assistant director to join an exciting new R&D end of Nov/early Dec.
for more info / how to apply 👉🏾
PLS SHARE!
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there should be a young vic workshop on how to talk to well-wishers after your show without having a breakdown
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Why does this sext from Jess Bezos read like a Sarah Kane monologue
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Q: what do straight cis men buy themselves when they crave A Little Treat? or do they just bottle it up for months and months and then suddenly buy a drone
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why does this read like he’s made the shortlist for a low-paid fringe theatre commission
I’m making an announcement tomorrow about a new project we’ve been working on since the Spring.
I’m excited about it and hope you will be too.
Posting here at 2.30pm Sunday🕰️
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@bbclaurak
thanks laura. could you ask them to push it back by 30mins as I might be at the shops then x
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this is most likely the only time i will ever be employed by the National, you better believe I'm gonna milk it
Nicola Walker (
#TheSplit
) with some (pretend) Welsh miners for
#TheCornIsGreen
photo shoot 👍
📷 ThatOllieBloke via Instagram
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imagining each of the 7 actors who play the Tiger doing this to Jason Mansford at the Oliviers
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the LAMBDA variant is simply frustrated that it didn’t get the chance to evolve into the RADA variant
1. A new Covid-19 strain, known as the Lambda variant, has spread to nearly 30 countries in the last four weeks.
Scientists from the WHO warn that the strain has an unusual set of mutations, which may make it more infectious and deadly than the Delta variant.
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Project Grants
There is only one thing girls want, and it starts with a P and ends in a S.
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v v V excited to be on the Untapped Award shortlist!!
📣 BIG NEWS 🏆
After an extensive process shaped by our brilliant panel, we're thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2024 Untapped Award.
Winners will receive an unparalleled package of support from NDT,
@FollowTheCow
&
@ConcordUKShows
to present at this year's
@edfringe
.
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nothing quite like the visceral power trip of using "we" when referring to a theatre company that is essentially made up of you and yourself alone
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what’s your most cursed idea for a show? mine would have to be Ivo van Hove’s production of Educating Rita
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wow people are really hyped for the Constellations matinee
Leicester Square brewing up trouble. Hundreds here. Men throwing pint glasses into the air, trees ripped up, flares, bottles thrown at windows. It’s not even 2pm.
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in literally any other industry in London these kinds of stats would look like a rigorously pursued policy rather than any kind of 'oversight' lol
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v hyped to be able to continue developing The Mosinee Project next year- w the support of
@MGCfutures
!
The bursary will support
@Nikhilv95
's R&D process in devising a new play about the Cold War from a unique perspective.
Find out more about our 2023 bursaries in the link below:
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bit late to the game…but I’ve finally made a professional website! have a look here: (it looks sexier on desktop imo)
I’m also looking for more work & projects, esp from Summer 23- as a director, dramaturg or facilitator. get in touch! ⚡️
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deeply amuses me that the only praise I’ve heard abt Dear England is from people working in theatre, while the response from virtually everyone else seems to be abject horror
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babe...you OK? you’ve barely looked at your Butter Naan Wall Clock
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excited to be a wee part of this cracking season!! stay tuned for more info 👀
Introducing: the artists behind Five Shorts 5️⃣
Our Creators Program has been working with five artists to create five new plays, each five minutes long.
The artists have been mentored by our Associate Artistic Director, Sue Emmas and the Creative Lead, Anastasia Osei-Kuffour.
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rehearsing a play is funny because inevitably you’ll be like ‘in one word, what is the unconscious existential trauma haunting the character’ and they’ll say ‘grief’ and then you’re like ‘✅😃👍🏾 now let’s do a dance!’
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Paddington 2
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they should do this for Stath Lets Flats
Peaky Blinders dance show world premiere, created with Rambert, announced
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any chance we could just skip 2022 please
It is with broken hearts that we announce the decision to cancel VAULT Festival 2022. Our full statement follows in the thread below and is available now on our website at:
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When people say they’re “dramaturgs” all it means is that they own a copy of this
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ok, but can we also have a virtual Mosque Kitchen
We are delighted to launch the first Fringe Central virtual hub, designed to capture the welcoming, collaborative atmosphere of the physical Fringe Central space run by the Fringe Society in August.
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new project!
beyond buzzed to be
@sohotheatre
directing this electric new play for
@TUpsetters
⚡️watch this space for more news!!
It's here!
Dismissed by
@DanielRusteau
is going to be at
@sohotheatre
in May 2023.
This play has been developed from a single scene at our very first scratch night back in 2019.
This is Daniel's debut play.
And we've got one more announcement on this coming at 4pm today.
👀
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a year and a bit ago I tweeted this.
now, somehow, it’s about to happen 👇🏾
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this is a thing i am doing! v excited to be sharing some new digital/choreographic pieces i'm working on w
@siobhandavies
- Dances For PowerPoint will go live next week, stay tuned 🤓
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I’m gonna go for it
Just announced: Vicky Featherstone will step down after a decade as Artistic Director at the Royal Court.
Read more:
📸Jill Mead
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Finding it increasingly bizarre how salty he is about this. Acknowledging privilege in mental health isn’t about undermining individual struggle and pain, it’s about pointing out the material differences in how pain can be reckoned with in a society.
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Going to the theatre in red dead redemption 2 just to feel something
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insanely loving the fact that Channel 4 are now theatre students doing coursework for their Intro To Performance Art module
These two ice sculptures - which represent the emergency on planet earth - will take the place of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage tonight after they declined our invitation to attend a party leaders'
#ClimateDebate
Tune in at 7pm on 4 and here on Twitter:
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Neoliberal art institutions be like “we’re holding the threat of redundancy over u 🤪👻 but here’s a wellbeing pack if ur anxious!🤗🏳️🌈🙏 u r loved + seen 🥰”
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over the moon to be directing
@_hugo_t_
's hilarious, tender, joyous new comedy 'My Life As A Cowboy' at
@VAULTFestival
in February - expect Shania Twain, swimming pools & unresolved nostalgia for Croydon 🤠💃
Our brilliant theatre programme continues into Week 4 of
#VAULTFestival
with even more unmissable new work. Don't forget: on our What's On page, just tell us what you're in the mood for and we'll show you events we think you'll love! Do it here:
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if u want to support striking Tate workers, please:
1) write to Tate Modern/Tate Britain expressing your disgust at what's happening via
2) pls consider supporting the PCS Tate Strike Fund:
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opened the first show I’ve directed in almost 3 years this week & couldn’t be prouder of everyone involved ✨
only two more performances to go!!
Don't miss this ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "toe-tapping, finger-snapping hoot which lassoes you in" (
@BoyzMagazine
)
🤠My Life as a Cowboy is a thrilling, joyous new comedy about friendship, glory, Shania Twain & what happens when you embrace your weird side...
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Just performed my one person show to no audiences 😢…Phoebe Waller bridge please help me
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Someone on
#OVConnect
cheer me up pls...I would love to connect and develop future projects with you all but don’t have even a basic vision of the future at all atm looool
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still can’t believe this is being pulled off! it has been such a pleasure to have played a part in the thinking behind this project- really excited to see what people make of it
Today we announce the blueprint for NDT BROADGATE.
In partnership
@BritishLandPLC
, this revolutionary new rehearsal & artist development complex will be COMPLETELY FREE for freelance & independent artists - providing an adrenaline shot this reset year.
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proud to be a follower of theatre etiquette*
*doing finger guns and screaming ‘pew pew pew!’ whenever a character in a Shakespeare play makes a Your Mum joke
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guys we didn’t tweet ‘THEATRE’ @ Oliver Dowden loudly enough last summer :(
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i’m working on this and it’s gonna be great- one of the richest, most devastating plays i’ve read of late. book now!!
Check out this stunning, newly released artwork for
#HTNightMother
, featuring cast Stockard Channing and Rebecca Night.
Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize-winning play opens on 22 October, directed by Hampstead's Artistic Director Roxana Silbert.
Book now👇
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Dave Davidson is 100% the kind of name David Hare would give his burner account
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Anyone feeling confused/dissatisfied by black squares on the TL today, I would recommend following+donating to the Black Cultural Archive.
@bcaheritage
Today BCA dedicates it's timeline to just some of the Black people who have died as a result of police brutality in the UK. This must stop. No more injustice. No more murders. No more racism
#georgefloyd
#blacklivesmatter
#blackbritish
#blackculturalarchives
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your bf goes to Edinburgh Fringe just for Shitfaced Shakespeare and Baby Wants Candy
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s/o to everyone who’s bumped into someone they’ve been on a date with at this building and then hid in the toilets. truly impeccable design
Having supported 8,800+ artists, today we hand back the keys to NDT Broadgate, marking the end of our 10th Anniversary season.
On Monday we'll announce something scary, but very necessary - so for today, we're inviting your memories from a year at Broadgate and a decade of NDT.
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YEE - and I cannot stress this enough- HAW 🤠🔥
absolutely thrilled that My Life As A Cowboy is gonna be
@ParkTheatre
this May!
so proud of this show and can’t wait for it to finally meet an audience -
INTRODUCING: Come What May Festival 🥳🎊🌼
Come What May in these challenging times, we’re celebrating emerging talent in a new 4 week festival of performance.
Ft. 16 different productions - 12 of which are re-homed from
@VAULTFestival
Book tickets:
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theatres when i ask for feedback on rejected applications
Sometimes we fall down because there is something down there were supposed to find. Never quit, if you stumble, get back up. What happened yesterday no longer matters. When you do fall down an lose your spark. Make sure you rise up as an unstoppable fire🔥 You’ve got this. Bosh❤️
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went trampolining today. haven’t felt this alive since Arts Council England announced the ‘Let’s Create’ strategy!!
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🌝NEW WORK ALERT🌚
I’ve made a piece for
@siobhandavies
’ Next Choreography Festival! THE SKY ABOVE is a card-based activity that gently guides you on a walk through an urban area. More info here/sign up to receive a free set of cards to take part:
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quite a few moments in the past year where i genuinely didn’t think i’d be in a rehearsal room again, so thrilled + lucky to be in the process for
@ANTLERtheatre
’s Civilisation.
tix
@newdiorama
running out so grab em here: 🍳
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jez butterworth writing Jerusalem
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having a Great Time working on this! 🚩🇮🇳🐇
🟠 They can’t afford for the truth to get out. He’s the one person brave enough to tell it. 🟠
#YVChasingHares
is an award-winning new play about a factory worker who risks everything to expose the injustice of factory conditions and rumours of child exploitation.
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extremely hyped for this news! only because the back of my head will finally be making a long-awaited appearance across Tube platform posters
One person can make all the difference.
Nicola Walker plays a teacher determined to help young miners in North Wales in Emlyn Williams’ The Corn is Green.
In the Lyttelton from 7 April:
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This is Cyber Bullying.
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first job in Brum! first musical! first job of the year! 💃
🎇BHANGRA IS IN THE BUILDING🎇
With rehearsals officially underway, we're delighted to welcome this stellar cast and creative team for Bhangra Nation! Let's kick off 2024 with a bhang!
Don't miss out on the buzz!
📅 Sat 17 Feb - Sat 16 Mar
🎫
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i don’t know what to do with these i don’t have insta anyways here i am in a wood ok bye
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brilliant team, this. absolutely buzzed to be making a show with them!
catch us next month
@sohotheatre
🎒
📢📢📢 CAST ANNOUNCEMENT
Introducing the brilliant cast of
#Dismissed
by
@DanielRusteau
, dir. by
@Nikhilv95
playing
@sohotheatre
from 16 May to 3 June.
🎟️
Read the 🧵 to find out more about our amazing performers as well as the crew involved.
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i’d introduce pick’n’mix & Tango Ice Blast for free
As a ‘younger generation’ artist, what’s the first things you’d do as NT AD? I’d reinstate The Shed’s programming policy in the Dorfman to include international & regional transfers of new work and the best of emerging work. Answers below 👇🏼
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3 weeks of lockdown! Boy oh boy, at least my favourite, Scottish-based, summertime Arts festival is still gonna be going ahead without any problems 😎✨🌈💪
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