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As a Jew, I just want to make it unequivocally clear that now and forever I stand in solidarity with Palestinians, and that I dream and move for Palestinian liberation. Seeing the current atrocities committed by the Israeli state, and the attempts at covering them up (cont)
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truly sickens me, as does the continued attempts at framing support for Palestine as in some way anti-Semitic. None of these actors, from Labour and the Tories to European and US imperialists, have any actual interest or care for Jewish lives (cont)
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I’ll be marching again this Saturday, and will continue to add my voice for a free Palestine. I implore everyone able to as well, because these moments will be remembered
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You know what's good? When
@ace_national
email you on your birthday to tell you they're funding your next project. HYPE 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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HOLY SHIT!!!? Some unbelievable soul just donated £600 and with that we have hit target!!!! Fucking yes Manchester you beauties. I've extended to £3000 because there's a long waiting list of people needing help. You're all legends!!! Share! let's do this.
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theatre twitter. I've recently moved up to Manchester. Would love to meet artists/organisations based across the north but particularly the NW. I work as a director/AD/dramaturg but have particular passion and exp with young people and community groups, hmu let's get arty!
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Actually feeling super emotional about the family I've found in the Manchester Momentum/Labour team. Only moved here recently and can't share enough how much hope optimism and joy this campaign has brought. Whatever happens today I am very thankful. But we gonna win
@McrMomentum
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Ok kids I couldn't see anything already existing so I set up a
#covid
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#coronavirusuk
hardship fund for artists based in Greater Manchester.
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Getting rejections in a pandemic is really not the one is it
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In very exciting news, the show I've been working on for years is going to be on at HOME in January, tickets here. Punk music. Aneurin Bevan. The NHS. One night only. 450 seat mainstage. Come help save what's ours. £8 tix for NHS workers. Shitting it.
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a whirlwind few months but in some personal news last week I got diagnosed with ADHD. A real relief to understand something about myself that for a long time I just accepted as my brain not working ‘properly’, but it’s not it’s actually a bit magic and I can’t wait to learn more
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Absolutely BUZZING to be joining
@Coram
today as Youth Engagement Coordinator, working on Public Acts (the continuation of the glorious Pericles) with the
@NationalTheatre
and the Young Citizens programme. Feeling very happy and excited bring it onnnnnn!
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Today is my last day
@WYPlayhouse
. I am incredibly sad. But also incredibly grateful for the love, joy and opportunities this building has given me. It is truly a magical place and everyone that works there is the best.
#ILoveLeeds
#I
'llBeBack
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Today is my first day as Learning and Access Officer for
@ImitatingtheDog
and to say I'm excited would be a bare faced lie because I am MEGA EXCITED!!! New adventures in the north.
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Absolute treat to lead a session with young people on directing new writing for
@rxtheatre
this evening, proper the tonic I needed and just a magic bunch of young people. Am buzzing!
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Boris Johnson just admitted on Question Time that the NHS has been underfunded for years. Who is responsible for that? YOU AND YOUR LOT YOU FUCKING ARSE HAT. Not and never safe in Tory hands
#SaveOurNHS
#bbcqt
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Finished volunteer vaccinator training today at my sweet spiritual home. Feeling gooooooood and excited, let’s get jabby
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This week I'm doing R&D on a show I've written. AFSURBD. Much excite much fear.
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Had a dream last night I was on Queer Eye and my god did the fab five make me look good. If anybody sees a pair of sparkly pink leather trousers let me know coz that was the look of my DREAMS.
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First day new job. Had a Yorkshire pudding wrap for lunch. I love Leeds
#traineedirector
@WYPlayhouse
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Honestly what the flaming dick is
@OliverDowden
doing. this great beautiful theatre is ESSENTIAL to the life of Manchester. It brings joy to so many. And literally, in his own words, they are the ones now being penalised for being less reliant on public subsidy!!! STEP UP
A Statement from the Royal Exchange Theatre - July 2020
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Oh shit today is the day Manchester come watch our show then I can shut up tweeting for a while
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Got fully broken going back to the theatre tonight. So many emotions; so much joy; but so much longing for what might’ve been. Thank you to the ever epic
@RashDashTheatre
for making something beautiful, thank you
@HOME_mcr
for being such ace hosts as ever
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Really really thought
#RichardII
@The_Globe
was excellent. So compelling, and an absolutely electric lead performance from Adjoa Andoh. Dead good work and wonderful watching an incredible all women of colour company smash it.
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Final week of rehearsals for
#GirlOnTheTrain
@WYPlayhouse
. Back in Leeds, super happy, this thing is gonna be goooooooood.
#choochoo
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So The Fall of the Master Builder opens
@WYPlayhouse
tonight and it's my first big assistant director gig and it's all very exciting
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FINALLY got to see
#AllWeEverWanted
by
@northernluke
@MiddleChildHull
at
@bushtheatre
and fucking man alive that is just so incredible. I felt EVERYTHING and would watch again and again.
@paulsmith1986
+ everyone involved
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Been baking since 1pm. The result:
#LionWitchWardrobe
gingerbread. I'm so ready for tech week 2.
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Today one of my truly bestest and most wonderful pals
@Mickey__Chong
who is a brilliant doctor came into our rehearsal room and watched a run through of
#AnActOfCare
and well his feedback just meant an awful lot, had a wee bit of a cry. 3 years in the making, please come watch us
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Have just discovered a secret booz stash in the basement of rented house. Not sure if a positive or negative but I'm sure after a few I'll let you know.
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Very very excited to be making my first show with this new theatre collective I've started. If you are/know any incredible actor musicians then send them our way.
#BraveNewWorld
oh dear I'm terrified.
Wooohhhh we on Twitter! And as a
#FirstTweetTreat
we are sharing casting for the making of our FIRST SHOW! See attached PDF, we need some boss ACTOR MUSICIANS to help create something special about the legendary Nye Bevan and the NHS. Share to every bloomin great actor you know.
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V exciting times for us with our SNAZZY new website with some peaks at upcoming projects ☺️
🚨EXCITING NEWS🚨
Thanks to the brilliant
@imo_veebooks
we now have a website! Check us out at 🎉💻🖥
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Finally got to see
@RashDashTheatre
Two Man Show and fucking hell. Just incredible, so inspiring, epic, best theatre I've seen forever.
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So A Monster Calls
@oldvictheatre
is just the most beautiful storytelling. And it felt like what theatre was kinda all about, a bunch of people sitting in a room together feeling these complex and difficult things. I bloody LOVED it. LOVED IT.
#OVMonster
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Spent some time in the
#PublicActs
rehearsal room this evening
@QueensTheatreH
@NationalTheatre
and seriously it is just the most joyous rehearsal room, or actually, place on Earth, I've ever been. As You Like It is going to be utter magic and I can't wait.
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Mum knows what I really want for my birthday this year. Please give me the best birthday (13th) present ever by
#VoteLabourDecember12th
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Back in London for the first day of rehearsals for
#TheGirlOnTheTrain
@WYPlayhouse
. Very very excited for this one
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So VERYVERY excited to be running this project for young people in Lancaster and Manchester this summer. Come make some games with us and have a v good time
🚨🚨🚨BIG NEW EXCITING PROJECT🚨🚨🚨 Young peopled in Lancaster and Manchester with an interest in video games, this one is for you!! We're so excited to announce the Limited (In)vulnerability Project, for young people aged 16-21.
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Oh look it me.
Introducing founder of
@archipelagoarts
and director of
#AnActofCare
,
@laurencedy
. Our resident Aneurin Bevan obsessive, Laurence has been developing
#AnActofCare
for the last 3 years. The show is his labour of love- and we all love working on it with him.
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Just sorting out the final bits of money raised from the fundraiser. The fact that we got just shy of 4k (DOUBLE the initial target) blows my mind. Thank you thank you kind people of Manchester and beyond. You're all angels, been able to help 18 people because of this.
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Thanks to this amazing one
@Hannahdonelon
and the brilliant
@thebenaddis
for an amazing week.
#NHS
#theatre
#NyeBevan
proper chuffed
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Starting r+d today for me first show
@salfordladsclub
, if anyone in the Salford/Manchester area wants to come and chat about all things
#NHS
then drop by, I'll be here for the next few days people
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First day of tech for
#LionWitchWardrobe
@WYPlayhouse
and I made chocolate banana brownies in preparation. IT'S GONNA BE GOOD!
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Director/theatre-maker always looking for collab buddies, but particularly a writer to work with on a punk gig theatre show about the NHS! Hmu talented people
#OVConnect
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I really hope Keir Starmer brings hope and fight, and continues the fight for socialism, a fairer society, and climate justice. But right now I'm really sad. Thank you Corbyn for changing everything.
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Was aiming for pink, got this: all in the name of charity (and nonsense). Fundraiser running till Sunday, considering going turqouise someone plz stop me
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Just paid out the first £1.2k (as much as my overdraft will allow until I get the money in from gofundme) and I am sobbing
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Ok so
#hadestown
@NationalTheatre
a little mini thread. 1. Obviously my heart is bursting with pride from watching the phenomenal
@BethHintonLever
on stage at the Olivier. Needless to say she was utterly incredible and it is a memory I will cherish for forever
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Would really love to chat to crack producers (particularly those based in the NW) about an exciting new play (about language, power, the rise of fascism and based off a wicked true story) that's hopefully gonna be on in an exciting new venue in Manchester next year.
#OVConnect
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So excited to be starting this project with the wonderful
@RCNLibraries
soon, chatting to nurses and making some magic 😍😍
A day late belated
#InternationalNursesDay2021
! We’re so excited to be working with
@RCNLibraries
as part of an exciting new project this summer, beginning with taster sessions that begin at the end of this month! Info below 👇👇
#arts
#health
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Day of jabbing done! Super fun and so much respect to people doing this day in and out because I am knackered
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TLDR I'm leaving theatre and moving into game development and would love to meet and chat to people anywhere across the sector, but particularly Narrative Design and Writing. So v excited for this career move!!
My portfolio can be found here:
Thanks theatre it's been a blast but for now CYA!!!
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Day two of
#GirlOnTheTrain
tech and can honestly say that
@lilyarnold85
and the rest of the creative/prod team are absolute wizards - it looks amazing!! And everything else is great so come catch us
@WYPlayhouse
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This morning I found this dog in my front garden. I did eventually return it to its owner. If there is a greater thing to wake up to I don't know what it is
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Today I didn't get a job I well wanted but I did buy some absolutely banging
@LucyandYak
trousers to make myself feel better so you know who's winning theatre
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Blooooddyyyy hell
Christmas come early! 🥳🎉🎄🍾🎁Ta very much
@guardianstage
for making
#SantaMustDie
one of your picks for the festive season! 16-31 Dec
@Alphabetti
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The face of an artist whose had a fucking ace creative day. Roll on the rest of the week.
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4 stars from The Guardian for (the fall of) The Master Builder
@WYPlayhouse
. Very proud of all involved
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Alright team end of the week we can make target I know we can. Bonus incentive, for every £100 we raise today, I'll share cringe lyrics of songs I wrote in my teens. Spoiler, they're very bad
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I've had to close applications to the fundraiser as the waiting list was too long for it to fairly be kept open. However I'm still looking for donations to try and reach the target and help all those who have asked!
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So
#AnAdventure
is beautiful and lyrical and epic and all the actors are really really great and the set was lovely and
@VinayPatel
is definitely pretty dang good. Pretty sure
@bushtheatre
is programming the best stuff over the past year or so.
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Some news from my life: I am leaving
@archipelagoarts
, and stepping away from the theatre industry more broadly. It has been such a privilege to make work with the incredible artists and participants that I have done up and down the country,
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On my way to London to watch Hamilton tonight. I repeat. HAMILTON. AHSJFBDKCFBFJ
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Just booked flights to Japan for October to see my brother for the first time in almost 4 years, and meet my nephew for the first time. Brb just having a complete emotional breakdown 😭😭😭
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Sorrrryyyy
#HisDarkMaterials
is incredible, I'm actually warming to James McAvoy as Asriel, Dafne Keen is AMAZING, Lyra is just the most bestest character ughhhhh give me more.
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So hot in rehearsals our speaker blew up working with a group of 8 year olds today. Pray for me.
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Away from electioneering news, I'm going to a gig by myself for the first time this evening, to see The National, and I couldn't be more excited to have my feelings all jiggled about
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This is really great news; the Birkbeck course is fantastic, and taught me so much but I wont be the first to say it's inaccessible to most because of cost (or you get people putting themselves in silly debt to do it). Great steps to widen participation in our industry.
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Directing 101: watch the first preview in the following manner for maximum note taking capability. And drama.
#nerves
#TheGirlOnTheTrain
@WYPlayhouse
HERE WE GO
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I appear to have watched 4.5 seasons of the US Office (first time) in a week. I am both completely delighted and a bit sick
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Look at this incredible wonderful best person talk about access in the most thoughtful and exciting way.
@BethHintonLever
you absolute mega legend you are a wonder CONGRATULATIONS ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Now for our first Musical Theatre
#FutureTheatreFund
recipient. Congratulations to
@BethHintonLever
🎉🎉
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When you climb Scafell Pike and find an ORCHESTRA at the summit, with a bloody CELLO.
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A brief list of (only some) of things the Tories have done that are simply inexcusable throughout the pandemic and before:
1. 2018 they were warned about care homes exposure to viral outbreaks, particularly their lack of PPE to deal with a pandemic, did FA about it
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Almost halfway there this is amazing!!! Arts sector workers of Greater Manchester get in touch if you need help, your community is here for you!!!
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Thank you so much to everyone that has replied or linked me up with people or retweeted. What a kind friendly open bunch. YES MANCHESTER 🐝❤️
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Had a very interesting time thinking and writing this, would love people’s thoughts in this particularly vulnerable time
OUT NOW! Our Learning & Access Officer Laurence Young is behind the latest issue of New Adventures in Performance. In it, Laurence dives into vulnerability, looking across theatre & the gaming world to explore how ideas of vulnerability manifest themselves in various arenas 1/2
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This evening
#WYPYouth
share our response to
#EveryThirdMinute
. Super proud of these brilliant young people I've been working with.
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Me in contemporary dance class this evening. Absolutely buzzing, even if my shapes could use some work
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It's the last performance of Lion, Witch, Wardrobe tonight
@WYPlayhouse
and I'm a bit of a mess but what an experience; thanks to errbody ❤️
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Hello everyone!! Thanks to your generosity so far, I've been able to help 15 people with £200 bursaries. Can we keep that going? There are so many more who've asked for help
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Have a complicated-ish relationship to my own Jewish heritage/identity that I'm not sure I know how to talk about a lot of the time but it is clear this erasure of Jewish voices is deeply awful and concerning. Complete solidarity to Jewish artists and the wider community.
If you are reading this and you work in theatre and haven't expressed solidarity for Jewish artists today then I'm disappointed in you. The
@WhatsOnStage
win for
@UKfalsettos
and
@sell_a_door
isn't just saddening. It's scary.
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Can't believe it's week 6 of rehearsals already. Narnia is shaping up as something truly magical
@WYPlayhouse
#LionWitchWardrobe
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I should get better at tweeting about things I'm doing. Today is day 2 of Still Alice rehearsals
@WYPlayhouse
and it's awesome
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Holy bloody mary. Another massively generous donation and we're up to 3k. Honestly can't quite believe it this is incredible. I've extended the target to 5k, the amount we'd need to raise to help everyone who's asked for it. I'm a wee bit overwhelmed. Fack
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Voting done!! Time to change the country. If you can spare any time today, join a marginal constituency and help get the vote out, Labour really appreciate it and needs every second today. We can do this.
#ForTheMany
#ImVotingLabour
#HOPE
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Small little shout/brag (sorry) but I was assistant director on this project and it was really great and fun and it's lovely to see this in the Guardian. Respect to all our ace participants, the great young people we worked with, and the brill team
@Immediate_T
George and the Dragon is featured in the Guardian today! The article highlights the ways in which Immediate Theatre is working to create inter-generational links, shared experiences and fun community projects.
#TheatreExchange
#ImmediateTheatre
@guardian
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Back at it in a REAL THEATRE it’s been amazing come chat to us plz!
Inviting you to join us for an online Q&A Thurs 8 Oct 11am-12pm where members of the company will be answering your questions about DR BLOOD’S OLD TRAVELLING SHOW, making socially distanced theatre & preparing to take it out on tour. Details here
#DrBlood
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☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️
★★★★ Review: Santa Must Die! – raw, raucous and righteously angry piece of festive gig-theatre with engaging performances and catchy, clever songs
@Alphabetti
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Had a bloody brilliant time with this wonderful lot, who are clearly getting a banging training! Can't wait to see what they all do next.
Fantastic morning working with the completely joyous
@LeedsMusic
MT students getting their feedback on
#AnActOfCare
@archipelagoarts
. In awe of their talent and generosity and so jealous of this ace course in my home town that didn’t exist when I was their age
#artsinthenorth
👏🏻
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Saw
#WhereWeBegan
by
@SBC_Theatre
the other day and myyyy they’ve crafted something extremely urgent and moving there. Brilliant political theatre that should not be missed! Well done to
@RosieMacPherson
and the whole crew, showing exactly just how vital theatre can be to society
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Please allow me to get deep for a hot second. There is nothing better or more gorgeous than best friendship. Today I am v v thankful for it
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Wow
@StillHouseLive
Session is just fierce, beautiful, and joyous. Could barely stay in my seat but damn I would not be able to keep up with those incredible performers. Everybody should be watching this
#LiftFest
#Dance
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