Maddy Moore
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Freelance Stage/Screen Director. Often found in prisons. Shortlist RTST Peter Hall Award '22 & final four ‘23, #MGCfutures , #OV12 , AD @TheThelmas .
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What have Cindy Sherman, goldfinches, women with bleeding feet, goblins & hiding your weirdness in your work got in common? Well... me apparently! 😅
#OV12
Your life story in one sentence?
‘Tries to conform, fails. Stops asking for permission and prevails’
Meet
#OV12
Director Madelaine Moore
@chunchilla
, working on Gobble Gobble Gobble Gobble Goblin
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Dear Theatre,
Once more for those at the back: We. Don’t. Need. More. Schemes. We need you to open up submission widows & read & commission what comes in. We need clearly signposted times for you to hear pitches from people you don’t know yet & programme them.
K. Thx. Bye.
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@vonny_bravo
No, we also did this down south! Don’t let them gaslight you! I think it came from Jimmy Hill’s prodigious chin? Does the phrase ‘Chinny reckon’ ring any bells?
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Folks, if you work for a theatre and a creative invites you to see their work, don’t book two comp tickets and then not show up, not let them know so they can release them for sale, and not contact them after to apologise. Seriously, wtf?
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Putting age limits on creative opportunities is really dumb.
‘K, bye!
Today we open applications for Plays from ur notes app 🗒️
A nationwide callout for writers aged 18 – 27 to submit writing that either currently lives, or could live, in the notes app on a phone.
Deadline: 20 Sep, 10am.
More information:
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Well,
@MichaelaCoel
’s
#IMayDestroyYou
is a bit fucking good isn’t it? 👑 Ground-breaking stuff in fact. 🔥 Can we pls stop referring to feckin Fleabag & PWB when we talk about stories about complex women now pls? Repeat after me: THERE ARE OTHER WOMXN MAKING BRILLIANT WORK!
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Can we get some big names 'encouraging' theatres to program 'bold choices' by unknown playwrights please? This is the worst kind of gaslighting... even if it is supremely well intentioned. 😏 I have a barrow load of bold projects from writers that no one will programme!
Jez Butterworth has encouraged young playwrights to make bold choices despite a climate in which less risk is being taken in the arts
#OlivierAwards
👇
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Bloody hell,
#EastEnders
take a bow! What a brilliant, sensitively handled, bravely told episode... and to those families who appeared & all those others who didn’t but feel the same pain, sending you love and solidarity. ❤️
#EndKnifeCrime
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Why are we still in a situation in this industry that means that freelance artists are the ones who are having to hold the industry’s moral & ethical backbone on our shoulders? Why are our institutions STILL not able to protect their workers?
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Butcher • Baker • Candlestick Maker • Director • Dramaturg • Grump
Don’t @ me
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Listen, white cis-gendered middle-class/privileged (in industry terms) women who work in the arts, it is not the job of working class/lesbian/ gay/bi/trans/non-binary/disabled artists or ARTISTS OF COLOUR to do the labour of inclusion for you free of charge while you earn a wage!
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Having a weird response to seeing theatres announcing shows. A tightening in the chest. A little voice somewhere asking why you’re not working on anything... it’s not comfortable. Sorry to be a Debbie Downer but not feeling much optimism knocking on the door of mid-career rn.
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@esgpatrice
@pimlicat
It only seems like point scoring because it is so easy to score points against Johnson. He’s a sitting duck thanks to his utterly embarrassing track record. Maybe you should be more concerned with that fact?
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Lenme get this straight: early career opportunities are disappearing like lightning. Mid-career pathways haven’t existed for some time. Small scale touring’s halfway down the shitter cos of funding cuts, so just the handful of same 10-15 established directors working in future?
It is with immense sadness that we announce the closure of VAULT Festival and the cancellation of plans for our new London home, after failing to secure the funding required to continue. 🧵 1/8
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Public service announcement - womxn directors exist. We are here. Many of us don’t have any paid work atm. If you want to commission womxn writers to tell stories of womxn - hire womxn directors. There is no reason not to. NO EXCUSES.
#FuckenRaging
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Just putting this out there: Theatre folks pls don’t ask me to work unpaid or on a day rate that is below living wage. I have 10+yrs experience as a participatory facilitator & 8 yrs experience as a director. I’m not particularly busy yet in 2023, but I’m not accepting it anymore
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Two rejections on the same day (yesterday) putting a major dent in my already *very* depleted energy & enthusiasm for the theatre industry. Something’s got to give here… I can’t stay in studios forever! Feeling so so stuck. Frustrating and depressing.
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Why is our industry still excluding emerging professionals based on something as arbitrary as age? It makes me so angry - as if there isn't enough gate-keeping going on already. Once more for those at the back EMERGING DOES NOT MEAN YOUNG.
Much appreciated, but this is not enough... many women who take career breaks or change careers after having & raising children will still not be eligible, not to mention people who come late to directing
@JMKTrust1
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#ThePush
is making me so angry. This fucking pathetic, weak, despicable coward just sitting there. Fawziyah sounds like an amazing woman, and sadly one a man like this would not be able resist bringing down to make himself feel powerful. Her poor family.
#EndVAWG
#SayHerName
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OMG! I can now call myself an award winning film director!
#Twitching
has won the audience award for Best UK Film
@PoppyJasperIFF
! What a lovely surprise to wake up to this morning!!
#Femaledirector
#shortfilm
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Have been waiting to share this for so long I thought I had dreamt it! Going to NY with a show was a long held ambition way back when I was still an actor, so even better now that I get to do with these amazing women! 🍎🥳😍
📢 Watch out hotel patrons of NYC - LADYKILLER IS COMING! 🍎🔪
#LADYKILLERplay
will be at
@59E59
from 12th May -7th June 2020 as part of
#BritsOffBroadway
We could not be more excited! Someone pinch us? 😆
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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 👇🏼
Sam Mendes has claimed the
@NationalTheatre
needs a "younger generation" to run it following the departure of Rufus Norris, as he ruled himself out of taking the top job at the venue.
Read more 👇
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@lauraferris100
@StephenRedmayne
@SandiAxxx
@Ed_Miliband
Going by the reactions to the casting, it sounds like quite a few adults need new role models too tbh!
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Kids, if you only go to support shows that give you a free ticket, that’s not supporting the show. Small companies pay for every ticket beyond their very small allocation of comps. Many fringe shows are unfunded which means that probably at least the producers are unpaid.
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So this is unlikely to ever happen again so... I have THREE plays opening tonight 😮😅
#TheSewingGroup
#ZeroForTheYoungDudes
@ArtsEdLondon
&
@AlgorithmsPlay
@ThePleasance
... so that’s a bit mad! 🥳🥳🥳😅😅😅
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@thecatreviewer
this floof lives on my street and finally got close today - reticent at first so initially 4/10, but raised to a 10/10 as we got some headbutts and belly rubs on.
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This has made me laugh a lot more than it probably should have... 😂😭😂🤣🐶😍
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📢 Well, this is exciting! After a very stalled 2yrs, I am absolutely over the moon to be directing this gem of a play by
@TomRatcliffe15
for
@WildcardTheatre
with a banging team! See you
@mercurytheatre
and/or in the Large
@swkplay
soon! 🥳🥳💅🏻
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'Some of the directing pathways that were there for me aren't there anymore'
I’ve been banging on about this forever. She’s right, they aren’t!
Furthermore:
- schemes ain’t it
- Graduation from assisting to main stage; not a thing
- ‘Emerging’ is a really unhelpful term
"I wish there were more connected pathways for directors to emerge from small-scale fringe venues into the big venues"
Tap the image to read more.
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Bless Jaz. Like every child of a dysfunctional family, you are hyper sensitive to people’s bullshit, but destined to always gaslight yourself or keep your mouth shut for safety. 😭
#TheTraitorsUK
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🙌🏻🥳 It takes bravery to admit a mistake and rectify… so, get applying all you oldies! 😂
We’re really pleased that it’s resonated with so many people.
After listening to feedback, we’re opening up the age range for anyone over the age of 18, so that all adults that want to can participate. 2/3
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VERY excited to be developing & leading this new programme with
@VAULTFestival
for new directors, which will be running alongside their current New Writer’s Programme lead by my partner in theatrical crime
@g_ting
. Come join us!! 🥳🥳
Brand new for 2021 is the
#VAULTFestival
New Directors Programme. An 8 week course offering a complete introduction to directing for the stage in an accessible way. Applications are now open! Absolute beginners encouraged to apply!
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Just reading application guidelines for an upcoming opportunity for directors - you lot are taking the piss with how much unpaid, complex work you’re asking freelancers to do at initial application stage, plus asking people to use a format that’s v inaccessible. Seriously wtf?
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Full disclosure; I am a tool of Deep Woke. I will not be taking questions at this time.
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So, clearly a lot of people in theatre (including me) are having a bit of a rough time of it personally atm, so er… go easy on each other, eh? And yourselves of course 🫶🏻
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Well this is super exciting! So happy & honoured to be one of the recipients of
@MGCfutures
#MGCfuturesBursary
this year... cannot wait to get cracking on my project!
#BeatniksFTW
#TheBeatRover
😎
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@pinkypalace
@bydanram
@VICEUK
To a vigil for a woman abducted and murdered not only by a man, but a man who is a serving police officer... seems like the perfect outfit to me. Sorry you lack the imagination to put together such an iconic lewk, hun.
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Stop manufacturing outrage. You know very well that right next to this one is another toilet with multiple cubicles with no urinals. Seriously, pack it in. Ffs these people…
Horrible "public" toilets at the
@LyricHammer
. Five urinals and one cubicle for women? Who actually wants this?
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@_youhadonejob1
@CNYcentral
No, creepy. Initially saw green and grey but then squinted my eyes for a bit and saw pink and white and now I can’t go back! YOU BROKE MY LOVELY LEFT BRAIN!
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Fucken theatre dude-bro club needs to go. I am DONE. So fucking done.
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👀👀👀👀 Can we also look at few women directors are regularly working the the West End please… oh and while we’ve at it can we pls stop hiring men to direct very obviously female dominated stories. 🙄
Some 84% of female theatre workers would like to see specific funding for women in the industry, saying they still feel impacted by the effects of the pandemic.
Click the image for more.
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How can it be that theatres still think it’s ok to not have information or even just a contact email for outside artists interested in programming. It just blows my mind! It massively contributes to theatre feeling completely inaccessible and generally like one big chummy clique
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Ok, let's get real; despite ace reviews like this, glowing audience response, award nom etc,
#SantiAndNaz
is struggling to hit our target for ticket sales to break even. There are lots of reasons for this, some understandable, some not, so please recommend us or buy a 🎟️
#EdFringe
Whoop! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ !!
'a very rare, queer South Asian gem'
A really heartfelt and important (especially to us) review of
#SantiAndNaz
from
@Somewhere_ForUs
🌈🙏
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For real though… we are also a tiny self producing company ran by artists, with no core funding to pay ourselves beyond our creative fees, so every ticket sale counts. You are salaried in a large commercially run theatre in the centre of London. What are you thinking?? So angry.
Folks, if you work for a theatre and a creative invites you to see their work, don’t book two comp tickets and then not show up, not let them know so they can release them for sale, and not contact them after to apologise. Seriously, wtf?
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📢 Film Producers: I'm looking for someone to come on as producer for a short film which I am applying for BFI funding for. *Deadline for fund is 15th December*. Happy to meet early career producers, as long as you have demonstrable experience in producing shorts. Reply/Dm me!😃
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'Director Madelaine Moore keeps the energy flowing and turns the repetitive process of dressing and undressing into something more profound.'
Whoop! Another ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review for Glacier! Thank you!
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I couldn’t hear the interview before… OMG, FUCK OFF! The arrogance! Yeah theatre should be arresting and dangerous, but it shouldn’t throw someone into a fucken trauma spiral. Do these barely relevant posh white men have literally no other way to edge-lord it up… how pathetic🙄
“I worry sometimes that we’re moving towards a sanitised version of everything”
Actor Matt Smith says theatre should “shock” people and that “one of the great things about Doctor Who was that you scared children, but in a controlled way”
#BBCLauraK
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Lol, the ‘younger generation’ can barely get a foot in the door as an artist, never mind to run the joint!Rebecca Frecknall for example is only just getting her debut there. And she’s one of a minuscule handful of people at that level. He means well, but let’s be serious please.
Sam Mendes has claimed the
@NationalTheatre
needs a "younger generation" to run it following the departure of Rufus Norris, as he ruled himself out of taking the top job at the venue.
Read more 👇
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Ugh...no palm is big enough for my face right now... ‘major producer’ ‘a proper writer’... what unlike the fake kind that sit flogging your fucking tickets to your faux feminist plays while spending their spare time tinkering around with their little hobby on the side?
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🫣 getting through a really big scary health crisis
🏆 my 1st short winning audience choice for Best UK film at a US festival
🎭 surviving Ed Fringe & breaking even
🎬 shooting my 3rd short
⚖️ leading a month long project in HMP Belmarsh
🌟 final 4 in Peter Hall Director Award
BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOU’RE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
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Quite possible the saddest documentary I've even seen. Such a waste of talent that could've been prevented
#CanIBeMe
#Whitneyhouston
💔
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Ermahgerd - love this! 😍 Through the mailbox slot: Japanese theatre offers new viewing experience
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In a parallel universe, I'm sitting in a rehearsal room about to start work on what would've been the biggest project of my career... normally don't share my losses on social media, but sitting here looking at the snow I feel like it's worth marking. Ah well... onwards & upwards.
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Inspired by watching Pretty Woman again (don’t @ me) I have done more work on the self hair cutting and given myself some layers... I think I still need more; going for Julia filtered through the 1970’s.
#workinprogress
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@JosephWiner
File alongside: ‘This assistant/associate post is designed to be a development opportunity’
Rejection feedback: ‘We went with someone who had assisting/ associate experience/ worked with understudies before/ worked at scale before’
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TransRightsAreHumanRights TransRightsAreHumanRights
TransRightsAreHumanRights TransRightsAreHumanRights TransRightsAreHumanRights TransRightsAreHumanRights TransRightsAreHumanRights TransRightsAreHumanRights TransRightsAreHumanRights TransRightsAreHuman
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Couple of really good resident director jobs advertising atm - what are you supposed to do if you’re capable & you’ve got lots of experience but it’s making your own work, and you’ve not had assisting opps or building based opps? Frustrating.
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What happened to policing crowds in the name of Covid protocols? Yeah... thought so. 😏
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Nice to see women are allowed to design theatre even if they aren’t allowed to write or direct it… this fecken shambolic industry, seriously.
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Woke up thinking about
@BFreeTheatre
’s
#DogsOfEurope
. Talk about shows being ‘urgent’ & ‘important’: this is the absolute definition. Beautifully made, imaginative, funny, angry, moving. Exciting to see theatre that actually feels DANGEROUS in all the best ways.🔥Art is power.🇺🇦
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This is completely irresponsible. I actually feel a bit sick tbh. Why is contemporary media culture like this? It’s like televised cannibalism. 🤯
*WORLD EXCLUSIVE*
The real-life Martha from Baby Reindeer breaks cover and gives me her first TV interview about the smash hit Netflix show.
Fiona Harvey wants to have her say & ‘set the record straight.’
Is she a psycho stalker?
Find out tomorrow on
@PiersUncensored
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Couple of events coming by on my TL recently that are discussions about inclusion/democratisation/ openness in the arts. Folks... panel discussions & meetings ain’t it until leaders of the biggest orgs fundamentally change broken working practices. I’m done talking.
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Morning! Due to funding knockbacks and cancellations, I find myself without much work for rest Oct/Nov - anyone need directing, dramaturgy, facilitation cover, acting coaching, producer support, ACE application reading/help, admin, dog walking... can offer competitive rates!
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Late to this (in tech), but huge respect for
@rxtheatre
giving the opportunity for multiple new names to make their debuts. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 This is what should be happening in major theatres EVERY SEASON… but most continue to hire the same small handful of directors. 😏
Directors Josh Roche, Emma Baggott, and Jade Lewis are all to make their debuts in the spring and summer seasons at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre (
@rxtheatre
).
Find out more 👇
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Look theatreland... pls can we quit hanging on for dear life to things scheduled in April/May? It’s not going to happen... like really not! Ask people to donate purchased tickets, move stuff online, but stop kidding yourselves! And I say this with the upmost respect & love... ❤️
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Embracing the vibe - excited to be directing
@verbatimfoley
's 🔥 play and working with the producer goddess
@nasikonan
! 💓
#OV12
in the house! Big up
@chamelibhatia
@ChiLikeTheTea
@JossHannah
#NessahMuthy
@nicolatchang
@PennyBabakhani
@cindyl1n
@Poppy_Corbett
@reecemcmahon
🥳
Along with
@shoreditchth
, we are very happy to announce this year’s
#OV12
, a group of writers, producers, directors and creatives who have been working hard together since March on the development of their brand new plays
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Gosh,
#JodieComer
is an astonishing talent isn’t she? Saw the first preview of
#Primafacieplay
tonight and she’s just utterly magnetic for 95 mins. Having said that, a major bravo to
@SuzieMillerWrtr
@estreetprods
et al for the production. What a team!
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Erm… I still remember how you left me & 3 million other freelancers without a pot during the pandemic in case we were tax dodgers… jog on. 😏🤡
I’m standing to be the next leader of the Conservative Party and your Prime Minister.
Let’s restore trust, rebuild the economy and reunite the country.
#Ready4Rishi
Sign up 👉
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OmfuckingG! A cunting lady, fucking swearing on the mother-fucking shitting stage? Well that’s a dick-shrivelling, cry-wanking shock!
*no children were harmed in the writing of this tweet... luckily.
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Been hanging on to this news for so long I was starting to feel like I’d imagined it!!
#LADYKILLERplay
on tour in 2020? Yes please! 🥳❤️
📢NEWS! Dead chuffed to share that LADYKILLER is going on a bloody epic spree (tour) of UK & IRELAND in Spring 2020. The most excellent
@housetheatre
&
@LauraElmesProds
have supported us to get this show on the road & we CANNOT WAIT! More details here >
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Directors & Artistic Directors who like to bang on about
#diversity
on ur personal TLs but ur co's productions have
#AllWhite
casts
#ISeeYou
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I fully expect to see all of these shows debut in 2024
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Award-winning director & dramaturg looking for mid-scale work: love feminism, dark comedy, playfulness with form, complexity, weirdness & a little chaos.
#NewWriting
#RadicalAdaptation
Also looking for short films to direct.
#OV12
#MGCfutures
#OVConnect
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We got the money! 🎉 🎉 Let the battlecry commence! 💪 🔥
Whoop whoop! We’re so excited to say that we’ve just got funding from
@ace_national
to develop our 1st mid-scale show: BOOTCAMP by
@g_ting
. Supported by
@Ovalhouse
we’re going to be experimenting with an ensemble chorus & incorporating live (hopefully) music... eeek!! Thank you!
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I knew there was a reason I liked Animal best...
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Excited to be delivering the 1st session of a 10 week acting course at a men’s prison for the brilliant
@Synergy_Theatre
today!
#NewJob
🥳🥳🥳
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Seriously, in a age of
#MacbethTHESHOW
™️ & where we have Kenny Brannagh directing himself in the WE in another 500yr old play, I don’t really see how doing meaningful artist development and then producing what they make is so revolutionary. But apparently it is so…
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Thinking of deleting whatsapp cos no matter how much I ask people not to message for work on it, they still do. It’s not completely unreasonable in the week but weekends/evenings takes the p. So distracting & I don’t even have notifications on. How do other freelancers manage?
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Ok, I'm going to take this one on the chin, mainly because the application made me properly sit down and articulate how I would make a stage adaptation of a very strange and challenging cult novel, so for that I am grateful... and one way or another, it's going to get made. 💪🏻
Aaaand... another rejection... phew😮💨 thank goodness theatre will remain safe for another day from strong, awkward women who want to make dark, chaotic, funny, political work! As you were.
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Inspired by
@AyoCaesar
’s idea, I have just donated my now redundant Xmas travel money to
@NPFoodbank
. If you can afford to, pls consider also doing for your local orgs. Food poverty is a real thing in UK. 5/10 authorities with highest share of kids at risk of hunger are in London
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@Planet_Maja
@yrfatfriend
Maybe it's not the fat that causes the stress but everyone else's reaction to it, so *maybe* those people should lose the attitude first.🙄
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Theatre… this is also you btw 👀👀👀
The UK TV industry isn’t in great shape, there’s no denying that. If you are part of a company or organisation that is investing in training or career development please do not exclude people at mid career level. Please do not solely focus on new entrants. There are so many….
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Yay! I mean, not wanting to ring my own bell too much, but these are both directed by me! 🥳☺️ Thank you!
🌈QUEER RECS🌈
we've seen two WONDERFUL queer theatre/comedy shows in the last few days – go see them!
💜
@AlgorithmsPlay
by
@SadieLeylaClark
is a warm, witty and hella relatable romp – 12:45
💜
#FATTYFATFAT
by
@Katie_Greenall
is a beautiful, searing look at fatphobia – 15:15
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Honestly sometimes I see main house theatre stuff and I do wonder how I will ever be able to break into a large scale production. Destined to be emerging forever cos I’m not willing to make beige ‘safe’ shows or at worse ones that think they’re political but are just bad/lazy
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Good god! If ever this government needed theatre people. Imagine spending £2.6m on a studio theatre set!
EXCLUSIVE:
@itvnews
can reveal the new *£2.6m* Downing Street studio for new White House style press briefings.
@PaulBrandITV
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Apologies for stating the bleeding obvious, but this year really has been fucking brutal, hasn't it?
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You know what I’d really like? An industry that is capable and willing to think outside of its own bubble.
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Lads… I’ve fallen in love with Barcelona. Anyone got any serious suggestions for how I might move here and keep a career in theatre?? 😬
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Fuck it... 2009: a bit lost, just started grown up gap yr having come out of an abusive relationship the yr before. Had place on MA @ Central 2010 but beyond that no idea. 1st half of 2020 there’ll be 6 shows I directed on in UK, Ireland & beyond. Single, sane & (just) solvent 💪
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Note to writers/theatre makers: you do not need to chuck a casual P word (or the N one for that matter) into your script to prove a character is a fascist or could easily be persuaded to become one. Ta for coming to my TED Talk on care & de-centring the white audience experience
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Director of ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#LADYKILLERplay
#FATTYFATFAT
#ALGORITHMSplay
#COCONUTplay
looking for paid projects (pro or participatory) & assisting gigs with established directors. New writing, devising & radical feminist re-working of the canon. AD of
@TheThelmas
#OVConnect
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@royalcourt
Thank you for listening and making that decision - so many others wouldn’t! 🙌🏻 Would love to see equivalent opportunities for Directors and other creatives?
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We still haven’t been paid a Box Office settlement from July 2023… can you believe that? And people wonder why small companies are folding left right and centre, and freelancers leaving the industry. FFS. 😡
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Am finding it fascinating how large, well-funded London theatres are suddenly getting all open-minded about the kind of shows, artists and ‘alternative’ modes of performance that we’ve been doing on the fringe for years. What’s that all about then? (Don’t tell me, I know)
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Great, yes David, heartily agree! So when the Nash offers you your... um what is it now, 20th? commission for a ‘state-of-the-nation’, you’re going to say say no and insist they give it to Jasmine Lee-Jones, right? David... hello?... Dave?
David Hare: Covid-hit UK theatre needs a John Osborne-inspired revolution
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“Then someone who has never heard of ‘putting potato waffles in a toaster’ will tell you whether or not your experience is valid.”
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This x 1000… such a good article with practical solutions.
Are working-class creatives truly welcome in the arts?
There is a lot more this industry could be doing to make working-class creatives feel welcome – and it isn’t just tick-box schemes and small print, says writer Kat Rose-Martin (
@KatMartin92
) 👇
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This government & very specifically
@BorisJohnson
are a fucking disgrace. This attack at the very heart of art & culture is unforgivable. Not only do they not give a shit about you dying, they also want to destroy many of the things that make life worth living for. Philistines.
Today,
@officestudents
confirmed that arts courses in English universities will have their subsidies slashed by 50%
This is an unconscionable attack which will force courses to close, restrict access and undermine the huge contribution creative arts make to society
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