Emily Aboud
@emilyaboudetc
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🇹🇹 Director and Video Editor • Evening Standard Theatre Award • JMK finalist 2020/2022 • AD of @lagahootheatre • she/they 🏳️🌈
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absolute insanity, i love this TEAM!
★★★★★ Review: Lady Dealer – A pummelling and profound poem-play about a female drug dealer from
@mwatsonallpress
@edfringe
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i refuse to be cringe on the main (and i know reviews don't matter) but this is absolute insanity. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ i just...
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Time to boycott Starlight yallllll! I reL hope we’re not related but, I’m related to a LOT of cousins who marry each other so... who knows? boycott this ass though, Jesus wept
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another rejection… how much hustling do I need to do get some work in this industry? really bored of everyone loving my work whilst also being unemployed and having no money
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me: i should try not to get too involved in the movement workshop, to maintain an air of mystery as the director
also me:
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I just really think that directing is a real boys game. At the fringe/small scale it seems to be hundreds of women directors but the directors making it to the main stages, feel like mostly dudes.
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theatre ppl, what's the best way food (actual food, fake food, symbols of food) has been used onstage? for research! i wanna know it all!
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ugh I just want to quit theatre so I can have good chat again and stop sounding like such a wanker honestly
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not my family installing a security camera to catch the “poltergeist” that’s moved the porch furniture every night for months and it’s just my 20 year old tortoise Charming
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nothing like directing an R&D of a play for a company, the company booting you out for an older/richer man, getting shunned out of an associate position because of a 2 day unavailability and now not even a press night invite? let me not even speak yes. true wildness.
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today I went for a swim and found out that the Peggy Ramsay Foundation have given me a grant to write BOGEYMAN - a HUGE weight off my shoulders, rent is made!
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artist of exceptional talent coming to a UK near you for 5 years (i got the visa), dis one goin an fog up d placeeeeeee
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So I’m now writing/directing a Trinidadian documentary for national television? And it’s about gender and sexuality??? Are you for real????
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Please please please stop pitting minorities against each other. Free Palestine and fuck antisemites. This isn't difficult or complicated.
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HighTide are always so gracious and form-pushing. Their support for Pink Lemonade (by Mika Onyx Johnson
@TheQueerHouse
) and me is humbling . So grateful to them for many things, especially the nomination. Thank you again to
@ESCulture
. What a week.
Huge congrats to
@emilyaboudetc
, Pink Lemonade director, who has won the
@standardnews
#FutureTheatreFund
Award, nominated by HighTide. Thoroughly deserved!! 🎉🥂
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feeling very blessed rn
Emily Aboud (
@emilyaboudetc
) and their production of Meetings by Mustapha Matura. Design by Anna Reid (
@annareid_design
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It will never not blow my mind that salaried folks in the arts will have a meeting with freelancers, tempt a job and then just, not keep in touch? Not say “sorry, we went with someone else”.
They get paid to have meetings, freelancers don’t.
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this tweet is exclusively for David Hare
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why are ppl still tryin to add me on linkedin, i do theatre now, i don't want money or jobs
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the problem i'm having with theatre at the moment, (and why i seem to dislike most things) is the obsession with text as the only means of manipulation. where are the moments? everything is a monologue these days, where are my moments
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there are absolutely no avenues for working class artists to “make it”. the fringe is an expensive cesspit and everyone is lying about the fact they went to oxbridge
we’re cancelling ourselves over theatre takes today what is your most cancellable theatre take
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overheard someone old guy say that all the dancers in swan lake have to be white bcuz swans are white, i mean these are humans pretending to be birds i don't think it's about "accuracy"
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SPLINTERED is going to the Soho Mainhouse in April 2023. Almost exactly 5 years since I came out to my mum on a terrible connection whatsapp call, immediately wrote down the entire interaction, thought it might end up in a play one day....
book now, this is the last time!
Psst... It's NEW SHOW DAY🙌
Now on sale 👀
⭐️SPLINTERED
@lagahootheatre
@emilyaboudetc
⭐️
@Gertie_Bird
⭐️AN AUDIENCE WITH MILLY-LIU
@difficultstage
⭐️
@JuliaMasli
⭐️
@chrisfluming
⭐️EVE: ALL ABOUT HER
#KeithRamsay
⭐️
@Kate_Barron
⭐️
@myradubois
🎟️👇
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we open BOGEYMAN tomorrow, it's a big big play and i'm very proud and very nervous.
the cast is 🔥 and the team is 💥
it breaks my heart every time i describe this show to someone and they have no clue what the Haitian Revolution was so pls retweet, let's spread the word!
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ppl who acted in shakespeare at uni are wankers, i'm sorry
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won’t ever forget sitting in the Bush Theatre, pitching this to
@gdicksonprods
and praying she’s wanna produce, check we nah!
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earnest tweet but, I really really love directing. storytelling is an essential human trait! imagination is essential! empathy and kindness are the best parts of us! collaboration and team work saves the world!
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late to my own party but i'm so blessed to say that i'm directing a whopping TWO of these brilliant pieces - next thursday and friday and they've already sold out! what the hell, i'm buzzing
Just announced: Queer Upstairs, presented by the Royal Court and
@TheQueerHouse
, will share new pieces of work from Enxi Chang, Jamal Gerald, Mika Onyx Johnson, Lauren John Joseph, Nemo Martin, Pete MacHale, mandla rae, Amelia Stubberfield and Yaz Zadeh.
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yo, how about nobody buys a ticket to the Weinstein play? Just don’t buy a ticket. Don’t spend money on that story. Don’t.
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Hey it’s Autism Awareness Day and I realize that my autism can frequently go unnoticed, so this seemed like a good opportunity to talk about how it impacts my practice ✌🏼1/7
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I really just want rich people to admit they’re rich! It’s not hard, just slip it in when it’s relevant. I’m financially independent but I have rich parents in Trinidad. Without their wealth, I would not be here. I pay rent to a landlord. See? Easy!
Theatremakers who play down their middle-class origins and promote a narrative of unceasing struggle are doing a disservice to those who genuinely lack privilege in the arts, says
@lyngardner
– honesty would go a long way
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make someone on bridgerton a lesbian ah begggg!! eloise is so obviously there. perfect season three pitch for you
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another day, another older person treating me like a fool because i'm a younger director... do i have to wear aging make up for folks to respect me? what is this? do i need to wear suits to rehearsals?
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i'd be really chuffed about this if i wasn't so so nervous and excited to show BOGEYMAN to the world! it's been a long journey and we're literally just at the beginning! pls come see it if you're about in edinburgh this month!
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My top ten theatre shows of the year
10) YOU
9) CAN'T
8) PUT A
7) NUMBER
6) ON
5) ART
4) IT'S CRUEL
3) CAPITALIST
2) AND
1) it's Wolfie, someone transfer it - this is my 2020 twitter campaign.
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Free Palestine, now and forever.
But casual reminder that Jewish people are not responsible for the oppression of Palestine. Some crazies will use this conflict as a mask for their antisemitism to flourish. Seeing it in London already.
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been feeling quite stuck and disengaged from my practice as a theatre director this year - everything is is hard to make!! but being part of the National Theatre Director’s Course was revitalizing and nourishing. So blessed to learn and grow alongside these brillIant directors.
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I am still fuming that ppl are “raising funds for the NHS”. This is criminal. It is the National Health Service. This is the government’s responsibility.
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me wearing fucking jeans
my uncle: "close your legs! i can see what you had for dinner
me without losing a breath: "uncle why you looking there anyway?"
i've had that comeback saved for about 6 years and i think it paid off
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three years in the making, i can't believe we're here. SPLINTERED is coming to the Soho Theatre folks, dreams come true! les get gayyyy, soca style
Here we bloody goooo 🙌🙌🙌 Announcing our Spring/Summer 2022 season, featuring, among many others,
@BourgMaurice
,
@RashDashTheatre
, Iman Qureshi's The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (
@DamselProd
), Claudia Rankine's The White Card, and David Hoyle 👀
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buzzing to get started!!! lewee gooooo next project!
📣📣📣WE HAVE A DIRECTOR
@emilyaboudetc
🙌🏽🙌🏽🎉🎉🥳🥳 We are so thrilled to be working with Emily on this w
@ChantelleDusett
@itsdanconnolly
@monica_nicolaid
@nicolatchang
@Emily__Hamilton
@BruisedSky
#dollytheplay
@ParkTheatre
23-28 May - ticks available:
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next play boyyyyy, can’t wait! this has been under wraps for ages and I’m completely buzzing to finally direct this tour!!
FLIP!, a new play by
@racheal_ofori
, directed by
@emilyaboudetc
, will premiere
@alphabetti
, before touring to
@Summerhallery
,
@sohotheatre
.
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hey, so, in case y’all didn’t know, we made SPLINTERED into a film and it’s awesome and I’ve been editing it for days and nights and I’m exhausted but we’re really proud of it and it comes out TUESDAY!
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guys i am so sorry, i don't care for shakespeare. the plays are still (by and large) racist and sexist so look, they're not for me, i'm so sorry. no amount of gender-swapping will change the fact that they're (by and large) sexist and racist.
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if a piece is sexist and racist and outdated, why try bother updating it when you can simply. just. never. program. it.
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Also, to clarify, there are many different Abouds in Trinidad who emigrated from Syria who are not related. It’s a pretty common name. But I said what I said.
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looking for queer women and non-binary actors of Caribbean heritage for a project! DM or comment below, pls RT
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If I had a pound for every time Alice heard me say “watch them not play the weight of the coffee cup” when watching TV, we’d have a deposit.
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i've loved this play since i saw its first sharing in 2018, and now, getting to direct it in one of my favourite theatres with the best team, after 2 years of postponing, it's too good to be true.
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how many plays about the working class are on this fringe? how may are gay? Lady Dealer is BOTH and it's also, really fucking funny.
I am SO proud of the immense work that has gone to put this play on and frankly, today is the day to see it.
4pm, Roundabout, Summerhall
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Every year I forget how big the difference is between a fringe audience (99% white) and a London audience.
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been working on this for nearly two years!? yikes, a play about seeing ghosts in London, inspired by the Haitian Revolution. come see it pls
BOGEYMAN, by Lagahoo Productions, is a ghost story that playfully combines music, movement and history. 💀
A powerful, moving and ultimately uplifting underdog story of resistance against the oppressor.
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been programmed at the yard! what a year!
So here you go - your stellar Week 1 line-up of 👏very👏special👏guests👏including:
Feminem | Wesley Dykes | CHIYO | Trinidad & TooGayThough | Christian Adore | Butch Princesa
what you waiting for?? Book for these kings sharpish
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finally, after a shoestring fringe run and a shoestring-ier vaults run, we are ACE-funded! what is a set/costume budget??? let's find out!
tidings of comfort and joy!!! (being paid is a comfort and a joy)
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very grateful today - just wrapped filming SPLINTERED in two damn days. seemed impossible, 146 different shots to get and it happened, it worked, we did it. time to edit 200GB of footage now, bless me
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Very insane to be on this list, with these amazing directors and with a Trinidadian play *I grew up with* designed by the one and only
@NatalieLPryce
?? God is ah trini ❤️🇹🇹
We're very excited to be moving ahead with the
#JMKAward
and are pleased to announce that our finalists are
@emilyaboudetc
@emeraldisms
@MHmattharrison
@beckyhopepalmer
@edwmadden
@RafaellaMarcus
@_kittybitty
@DianePage85
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i spent two hours on this *brilliant* idea but it turned out a bit TOO subtle, ah well. fail better! said beckett!
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just handed in my first draft of my first play ever I’m tired and writing is very hard, how do ppl do this?
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reminder that my granny, born today on April Fools, was the HOTTEST TING in Trinidad by a mile
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We need an assistant director! Please apply! Assist me and bring your best warm up games.
We're looking for an assistant director for our production of SPLINTERED at the Soho Theatre in 2022.
Paid of course, please retweet/share.
Job Description:
Application Form:
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dream team, dream venue, dream play! I am over the MOON!!! Roundabout 2023 lewee gooooooo
LADY DEALER BY MARTHA WATSON ALLPRESS
@gdicksonprods
Charly is unshowered, fresh from a break-up & avoiding her Mum like the plague. But that’s irrelevant. All you need to know right now is that Charly is a drug dealer. And she’s really good at her job.
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I'm a director & playwright interested in queer work, dark-comedy and theatre-forms that arent naturalism (just made a film where the audience became the performers), I have a lot of experience directing. Looking for a play to direct and producers to connect!
#OVConnect
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sorry to boast but never in a million years would i think that my play would be next to tom stoppard in the bloody guardian.... just chuffed!
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Happy international woman’s day to trans women especially. Some of the best humans on the planet y’all are.
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gay best friend got married and we basically came out together and lived together for 6 years and became our best selves and he made me sob in his speech and I was the MC and I didn’t even once embarrass him, score!
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next ting, next ting!
writing a bloody opera, didn’t see that in my 2023. lewee go
@PeterBrathwaite
@EllenRMcDougall
!!
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so SPLINTERED is top ten for the Tony Craze award, which... is... crazy?
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another interview, Christ.
come see Bogeyman if you’re about, it’s our most ambitious project to date and the team are absolute superstars
Director and theatremaker Emily Aboud (
@emilyaboudetc
) tells The Stage about Bogeyman – currently at
@ThePleasance
for
#EdFringe2022
– Lagahoo Production's (
@lagahootheatre
) latest show, exploring vodou and the Haitian revolution
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well that’s a relief
★★★★ Review: Splintered – Emily Aboud’s exuberant queer Caribbean cabaret blends the playful with the political
@sohotheatre
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Very excited to announce that I will be directing the talented
@alexrey1302
and
@iAmBayo
for "What we talk about when we (don't) talk about race", written by
@BathshebaPiepe
for the RAPID WRITE RESPONSE of BR'ER COTTON
@theatre503
on the 25th/26th March. It's looking incredible.
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Haiti. Was. First. Read. A. Book.
Think it is important we don’t forget that the United Kingom was the first country in the world to permenantly ban slavery.
Until Wilberforce, almost every society known to man engaged in the barbaric inhuman unjustifiable practice of treating individuals as property.
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I think the same for writers too btw.
I think it’s just wild to compare like, fringe level venues to the main stages.
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seriously considering quitting theatre again! becoming more frequent!!
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!!!!
Joining Lou and Anna on stage is the brilliant
@nicole_sawyerr
🥳🥳
✨Directed by the fabulous
@emilyaboudetc
✨
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need some names of queer, caribbean womxn who are performers/creators/actors for a PAID R&D opportunity in April. this show is going to fringe and we need to expand our books! email emily
@lagahooproductions
.com and tag away. twitter peeps, help me with the retweet xx
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next ting
Close Quarters by Kate Bowen
Carne Studio Theatre, LAMDA.
tickets selling soon, i go link yuh
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man, trinidad is the most wonderful but it just sucks that i have to apply for a visa to live in the place that I live. feeling like I have to start from scratch to make Theatre if I’m not in the UK, don’t forget me y’all, I’m trying to come back
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just just found out that APPARENTLY at glastonbury, some idiot programmed janelle monáe and christine and the queens AT THE SAME TIME ON TWO SEPARATE STAGES. never have i witnessed such homophobia, this is a hate crime, i will never get over this. (i wasn’t there)
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Intro to directing -
@WildcardTheatre
!
The industry is scary & inaccessible but I'm a Trini with a science degree, directing stuff so let's make theatre better maybe?
(full disclosure i also have rich parents- it's not rags to riches but i DIDNT go to oxbridge)
pls sign up.
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not to be dramatic, but
#PinkLemonade
would have been open at the
@bushtheatre
all this month and seeing the building today, one of my favourite theatres, was just a sinking feeling man.
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today, I had a REAL moment of just, like, pure love for theatre. just pure love, I nearly cried. directing again feels really fucking good. art is really fucking good. stories are good.
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We want more good directors who make good theatre who bring people together and tell good stories. Come throughhhh! Limited places available! Gassed to be doing this!
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this is cringe but should i get an agent? do i need an agent? does an agent want to represent me? what can they offer? i'm a director who writes sometimes but mostly a pretty good, accoladed director. agent seems like the right step but only if it's gonna get me work right?
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hey folks, just to mention the side-hustle, I film/edit a LOT of theatre for archives etc, I can also film trailers and interview videos. have filmed at Roundhouse/NDT/Talawa. do get in contact if interested!
the vaults cancellation has affected quite a bit of this work i do!
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hilariously, I’m writing for the Royal Opera House now
British opera singer creates work to reveal humanity of enslaved ancestors
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you know what,
@theatre503
is one of the best theatres on this island - they are SO committed to using their resources to support new writers and create stories we've never seen. some of the best plays i've ever seen in london have been above that pub
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also, just because ticket sales are quite low this week, if you want to come see BOGEYMAN, now is the time. it's about the Haitian Revolution, a rebellion of the enslaved African people on the island which led to the creation of the first Black Republic.
15:55 at Queen Dome
Edinburgh Fringe's ongoing lack of diversity is "incredibly disheartening", say leading creatives including artistic directors Chinonyerem Odimba, Matthew Xia and Emily Aboud
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Sondheim, in many ways, was one of the titans of theatre that I could access in Trinidad. I don’t think many of us would be here without him. My god, “vary my days”, who else could write that?!?!
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Back to London today (because the Lionesses have made it to the World Cup final and I need to be in Arsenal tomorrow or bust).
But I am SO LUCKY and SO GRATEFUL to
@gdicksonprods
&
@mwatsonallpress
for trusting me with this unreal play. What a dream summer. Thank you.
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this went down a treat on insta so here’s some pics of me and my dog
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fuck man, I don’t know I’m in depressed or what but the majority of the ppl clapping tonight voted for the party that continues to cripple the NHS and are responsible for already, 1000s of deaths... I hate to be such a downer but ffs, NHS needs funding, staff and ventilators.
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My Twitter is so lit, I call it LITTER..... because it's trash.
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Also, on Wednesday was my one year anniversary with
@alicer206
. One hospital operation, a 3-month deportation and an undetermined length of global pandemic and consequent economic collapse later, we are still very happy
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