Sarah Argent
@sargent65
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Freelance theatre-maker/writer/dramaturg/mentor: Theatre for Young Audiences & BabyTheatre.Assoc Artist @theatriolo .Danish translator.
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Theatre Twitter. I won't be popular for this but I have to tell the truth. Maybe no audience member has contracted Covid but I know of a director, a designer, a sound designer, a stage manager all of whom caught it in a rehearsal room.
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Feeling more tired - physically and emotionally - than I ever have before. I'm 56 later this month ... oh, and I'm disillusioned & frustrated & angry. I'll probably take this down later but curious what will happen if I send it out into the world.
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#NickHytner
&
#KristinScottThomas
. Thank you for your well-intentioned comments about the crisis facing the arts but once again hearing about the West End, ballet, opera and the big theatres makes those of us working in small-scale theatre
#Marr
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I’m 56, been working in theatre for 30+ years & today I proudly fit up a show for babies. I don’t want to “climb the greasy pole to get to run a major theatre” (with no disrespect to those who do!) - this, for me, is “what it means to be an artist and what creativity looks like”
Why do we assume that a show made for an adult audience is more important than theatre made for or with young people?, asks
@lyngardner
. Those who devalue children's theatre are cultural snobs who need to grow up
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Masks, shields, social-distance, copious amounts of sanitiser and disinfectant, and it's still possible to catch it. I understand the frustration at the anomalies about what is allowed and what isn't but please stop claiming that theatre is 100% safe!
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We got married 25 years ago today. Love, laughter, joy, tears, illness, death, travel, creativity, conversation in those years and many ups and downs. Who knows what the future holds but we’re still together, still holding hands ❤️❤️
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And please stop posting photos of yourselves in rehearsal rooms without masks and at close quarters - unless you've all been in a bubble and/or quarantined prior to beginning work.
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Dear theatre people. A friend on Facebook asked why theatre people are thinking of giving up. If you have decided to give up, have thought of giving up but changed your mind, are considering giving up, what are your reasons?
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Wow. Very honoured to be on this list - and very grateful to British Council Wales for support to work with wonderful artists (and make brilliant friends) in India and South Africa. 📸
@KMTPhotographer
. Looking forward to learning about more fabulous women
On
#InternationalWomensDay
we're shining a light on some amazing women in the Arts!
First is award-winning director
@sargent65
who specialises in creating theatre for the young, working with us in India & South Africa.
More on the India-Wales project 👇
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@jessgreenpoet
I used to pass out, look as if bucket of water had been thrown over me as I was sweating so much, writhe in agony on the floor - not every period but many. Was it connected with massive fibroids that went undiagnosed for so long & meant I was never able to conceive? Possibly!
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If older people are in their 50s, 60s or 70s - we're more likely to be into David Bowie and Debbie Harry than tea dances. Just saying!
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Oh theatre people. Can we be aware that much as we love theatre it isn’t the only thing in the world. Sometimes life, death, illness or simply the need to have quiet times can take precedence, so please don’t get upset if seeing theatre isn’t at the top of someone’s agenda! ♥️
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Just be kind. Believe that people are trying to do their best. Remember they are probably making mistakes because they are doing things for the first time or in a new way. Be aware that there is still a great deal of trauma & anxiety. Just be kind!
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Ok. Who can get started with the shortest rehearsal period? Go!!!
Government says outdoor performances will be able to begin this week
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I’m 58. Perceived as being pretty darn successful in my field of work in the arts, have contributed a fair amount to children, families & teachers through that work and I’ve never earned anywhere near £40k per annum. This figure is ludicrous!
Sunak/ Braverman deal reportedly includes plan to:
- increase minimum salary for skilled worker arriving from £26k to £40k
- ending extended visas for graduates
- further limiting family members people can bring
- prioritising certain universities for student visas.
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Dad died 10 years ago today. Still love him. Still miss him ❤️
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To clarify - these are four separate incidents, not the same rehearsal room!
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Musing today on the fact that those who choose to produce the arts or become arts bureaucrats or funders earn SO much more than artists (or “creative practitioners”. Why? Is it understandable? Or fair? Was it ever thus? Should it be like this? Thoughts?
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Argh!!!! A staycation is when you stay at home and maybe have trips out/days out. When you stay in a hotel or a cottage or a B&B it's a holiday. In the UK. I know there are more important things to get annoyed about but this is driving me mad!!
#Holiday
#NotAStaycation
😡
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Sometimes the desire for a cuddle from my mum (died in 1998) or dad (died in 2011) or preferably both is quite overwhelming. Grief never leaves us completely. Love to everyone who is missing a parent today xx
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Our first audience of babies giggled, waved hands, bounced, played, went silent and focused and danced. A delight! And thank you so much to everyone in the building for your hard work & warmth in welcoming audiences back! X
Break a leg to the company of
#BabyShow
on today's first performance! And to the whole of our brilliant FOH team who are welcoming audiences back to our building. We're so happy to be sharing live theatre again🙌📸& gorgeous set design by
@VerityQuinn
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Woah. The emotional ups and downs since March. Joy and sense of accomplishment one minute, tears and exhaustion the next. It can't just be me ... surely?
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@JaneyGodley
@TraceyBriggs1
@Beatson_Charity
@NHSScotland
My dad was treated so brilliantly for throat cancer at the Beatson, my mum had decades of treatment and dialysis for renal failure and Parkinson’s at Stobhill and the Western. Stobhill saved my life when my appendix ruptured when I was 17. Scottish NHS care has been phenomenal
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One more sleep until we welcome babies to the world of Wish! Beautiful work, team!
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A call-out to those working in
#TYA
- Theatre for Young Audiences. As part of my work for
#FreelanceTaskforce
I'm going to ask a series of questions about the joys & the "challenges" of working in our branch of theatre. Would love to hear your answers.
#TYAQUESTIONS
[Thread]
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Right ... the new me is stopping work at 16.51 on a Friday, taking the weekend off, and an extra day on Monday as it's our 24th wedding anniversary. Will I manage not to check on emails and/or respond to them over the weekend? We'll see. I'm certainly going to try!
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I wish I could phone my dad and tell him I'm quoted in an article in The Guardian alongside Peter Brook. He would have been excited and proud. I miss him ❤️
The Royal Court's Caretaker: a space to think of theatre's past and future
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Who was that total blubbering mess in the balcony of St David’s Hall after Nick Cave thanked us for working out what it means to be an audience now and then sang Into My Arms? An evening of sublime music. Thank you!
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Each episode of
#WomanInTheWall
breaks my heart thinking about my teenage birth mother - in a Church of England Home for Unmarried Mothers and then me being a breech birth & her having little pain relief or sympathy - and then me being taken from her at 8 days old.
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Sorting my office - what’s staying, what’s going to charity, what’s going into storage, what’s being binned or shredded? I’ve just thrown away all the articles & correspondence & appointment cards re
#infertility
&
#IVF
. The pain lives on but there’s no need to keep any papers 💔
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Oh yes. Here's to the nodders of which I am one! The screen full of impassive faces, the muted sound that doesn't allow even a murmur of agreement to be heard makes presenting, talking, facilitating on Zoom so unnerving. Thank you, nodders!
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And standing in front of one in a brushed nylon nighty - and drying your hair in front of one before Saturday night tv
Who remembers getting dressed for school in front of one of these ⛄️
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I've now skim-read and it's a sobering read for ALL freelancers. As a 58 year old woman who mainly works as a director it certainly chimes with my experience. "21-30 years experience - females’ mean earnings are £22,600 compared to men’s mean of £43,200 - a 47.7% pay gap."
Released TODAY. The Big Freelancer Survey Report 2023, 'Underpaid, Undervalued, Under Pressure' highlighting a 37% gender pay gap between male and female theatre freelancers and an industry "rife with ageism and sexism"
#FreelancersMakeTheatreWork
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This never ceases to make me smile - and then go a bit teary at the end! ❤️
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So excited and a little emotional arriving here to run a 5-day training programme on
#EarlyYears
’
#theatre
for
@Unicorn_Theatre
@TalawaTheatreCo
. Can’t wait to meet the participants & facilitators
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8 years ago today my wonderful dad slipped away after living with Alzheimer's for 7 years. His legacy teaching so many actors about acting and masks and improvisation was immense - as was his legacy as a dad & grandad. Love you & miss you still!
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Talking to students today about writing, devising & directing Theatre for Young Audiences allowed me to recollect wonderful creative times with brilliant creative people & made me very happy! 😊
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Oh dear. Fatigue and lockdown - can't remember words, names, what I'm supposed to be doing, what I came upstairs for, what I went downstairs for. Who am I? What am I for?
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When you've really connected with someone as part of an online group. You know she works in Cardiff but don't know where she lives. You message while lying in the park. She lives 50 yards away. You meet in person and chat and plan cocktails!
#SmallWorld
#JoyfulDay
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Mum died 22 years ago today after 2 decades of renal failure, dialysis, kidney transplants, Parkinson's & more. Throughout that time she had the most amazing care from NHS staff in Glasgow - thank you to nurses, doctors, surgeons, physios, & all other staff who looked after her!
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I am so delighted to be able to share this news, so delighted to be once again working with the fabulous
@theatriolo
@chapterTweets
and meeting gorgeous babies aged 3-18 months & their grown-ups!
We're so happy to be making a theatre show for babies with the wonderful Sarah Argent and Kevin Lewis. We've all really missed live performance and to begin with a show for babies, many of whom will have been born in lockdown, is extra special.
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Beautiful things like a show report yesterday “A little
one shouted “It’s good, isn’t it?” to their friend who replied with a very loud “yeah!” but structures, pay, tales of bullying, self-belief bearing no relation to talent - struggling to find the joy!
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Just had an image of myself walking between lines in a crowded London Underground station and it terrified me - not catching the virus, simply so unused to being in a crowd. Anyone else nervous of the return to the old ways?
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#BabyLossAwareness
To all of the potential babies - the follicles, the embryos - so sorry that none of you decided to develop & implant & stay. You would have been very much loved.
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Today we start teching
#GrandadMeAndTeddyToo
on
@katieliasdesign
gorgeous set, beautifully lit by
@jonathanchanlx
. This wee bear is waiting patiently for
#GordonWarnecke
&
#KatherineCarlton
to arrive and is so looking forward to meeting 2-5 year olds & their grown-ups from Friday
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