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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.
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
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:
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
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
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
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
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:
🔥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!
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?
🚨 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!
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
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🕰️
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.
📣 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
.
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.
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:
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! ⚡️
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
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.
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!’
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:
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.
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.
👀
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 🤓
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.
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:
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 🥰”
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:
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:
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...
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
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.
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
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👇
Anyone feeling confused/dissatisfied by black squares on the TL today, I would recommend following+donating to the Black Cultural Archive.
@bcaheritage
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.
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:
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❤️
🌝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:
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: 🍳
🟠 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.
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:
🎇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
🎫
📢📢📢 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.
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 👇🏼
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 😎✨🌈💪