Bobby Harding

Cutting-edge theatre makers who would blow the roof off of any venue lucky enough to have them can’t make rent! And it’s no wonder when they’re paid weekly fees that don’t even work out to minimum wage. We can and must do better.

Love and rage ❤️‍🔥

Much like rent, taxes and energy prices the middle class survive, the uppers thrive and working class people are expected to pretend like they stand a chance in a system rigged against them.

It feels like calling something grassroots is a bad thing and instead of learning how to nurture ourselves and develop each other we’re taught tips and tricks to prove how worthy we are to make theatre.

Happy World Theatre Day!

Thinking a lot about how hard it is to make said ‘theatre’ at present…

🚨 ONE WEEK LEFT to catch Main Character Energy by Temi Wilkey

Described as ‘the perfect send up of the one-woman show’ by The Guardian and ‘a five star triumph’ by Diva Magazine 💅🏿

25 Feb - 15 Mar 2025
Soho Theatre, Upstairs

BSL: Mon 10 March

🎟️ sohotheatre.com

#maincharacterenergy #londontheatre

Main Character Energy @ Soho Theatre was wonderful last night!! Like, completely hilarious and the stage command & audience work was masterful. 💕 #theatresky

And she’s 100% right

(Trigger warning for privately educated nepo stage-babies)

"I think self-indulgence can be really radical." Writer, actor and comedian Temi Wilkey on her one-woman show Main Character Energy, which opens at Soho Theatre later this month. Plus: three shows to see next week.

Here is this week's issue of The Crush Bar, feat. Temi Wilkey, whose show Main Character Energy runs @sohotheatre.bsky.social later this month.

Plus, there are three show recommendations @manipulatearts.bsky.social, @royalcourt.bsky.social and The Globe.
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Jeph told me I had to post this

Truly!!!

Say cheese

Quite proud of this year tbh

5 projects from page to stage
13 artists / companies supported
£149,473 raised

£364,413 applied for
£214,940 rejected

Next year will slow down a bit as your girl has a job BUT I am still so excited for the many projects and artists to come 🫶 ta very much for now x

You folks wrote the book on setting up. So it is my absolute pleasure 🩷

Awwww thanks Luke 🥰

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Applications close Tuesday!

Balance 😌

The most useful function of a theatre outreach or participation department is not, as people often think, to change people outside 'in the community'. It's to change the organisation itself.

(A thread - reposted from LinkedIn)

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CeCe McDonald wrote from a prison cell on November 16, 2012: "Trans Day of Remembrance: A Proposal" "We need for our mission to promote racial, social, and economic justice for trans youth, with freedom to self-define gender identity and expression. "[To have rights and a voice. To be able to walk in this world, not afraid and actually feel like a human being and not a shadow in a corner. "I would have rather been punished for asserting myself than become another victim of hatred. "We need to not only celebrate for Trans Day of Remembrance, but also become self-aware and ready to put an end to our community being the focus of violence. Of course it is more than important to recognize and pay homage to our fallen, but we also need to put our feet down and start being real leaders and making this stand."

For #TransDayOfRemembrance I want to share this extract from the dedication page of Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

‘We need for our mission to promote racial, social and economic justice for trans youth, with freedom to self-define gender identity and expression’ - CeCe McDonald 🏳️‍⚧️

Transgender Day of Remembrance poster, November 20

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. It exists to remind us of those those in our community we have lost to violence, which trans people are four times more likely to experience than cis people. This is our reality: bigotry, harassment, and violence are ever-present, and yet we still find joy.

Tax return Tuesday: Drop-in session for Hull freelancers.

Save the date 🗓️ We're hosting a peer-to-peer, drop-in session for Hull freelancers to come do their tax returns together, in our rehearsal space on Tuesday 14 January (11am-2pm). You bring your receipts, we'll bring the tea and biscuits.

Lasagne and chips with everyone digging in to get a delicious portion

Good morning Bluesky!
Today at the museum!
Art 11-2
Gardening 11-3
Community meal 1
Recovery group 3-5
Surrealist film which we have all starred in 3
Then we are all off to @bobbyharding.bsky.social installation for Trans Awareness week
ALL WELCOME ❤️

Love it Morna!!

Can’t wait to have you! X

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Done! 👍