Katherine Mendelsohn

Katherine Mendelsohn

@katherinemend.bsky.social

Theatre dramaturg and stage-play translator (french-english). Mum. Word-lover. Reader. She/her.

1,585 Followers 540 Following 1,518 Posts Joined Sep 2023
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This campaign needs you now Exempt Afghan women from study‑visa suspension now

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How Democrats flipped 22 Georgia counties with a utility board race The campaign for once-obscure regulatory positions could be a bellwether for midterm elections as skyrocketing electricity prices drive voters to the polls.

In a stunning upset, Democrats Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard unseated Republican incumbents Tim Echols and Fitz Johnson by record margins — installing Democrats on Georgia’s Public Service Commission for the first time in more than 20 years.

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Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"

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you see we didnt hit iran. iran slipped and fell in the kitchen and thats why iran has a black eye. if iran would just stop being clumsy we wouldnt have to get so mad at them. if iran would just use its brain we wouldnt have to yell at iran...

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To all the radical women who have made the world better, especially those women who radicalized us, thank you.

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Premature Aberdeen baby goes home after pioneering heart surgery Caitlin Duncan had a heart defect when she was born 17 weeks early last July in Aberdeen.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Winter Paralympics 2026: Neil Simpson and guide Rob Poth win alpine combined silver Neil Simpson and his guide Rob Poth win Great Britain's first medal of the Milan-Cortina Winter Paralympics with silver in the alpine combined.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...

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Glasgow Central: Station remains closed in aftermath of fire Scotland's busiest station remains closed following a huge fire that destroyed a neighbouring building.

"A fire break between the Union Corner building - which was destroyed in the blaze - and the external wall of the station is thought to have stopped Sunday's inferno spreading further."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny

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Porridge & Play MARYHILL is back! Join Maryhill families on their Storyplay adventures - you can read the blog here -
www.licketyspit.com/maryhill-mar... 🎉🍉🌈

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Opera is not dying, Timothée, it's thriving. In Europe alone, 14m a year attend (2.5m under 25s) worth €10bn. Since 2000 La Traviata had 30,000 performances. In its lifetime it's been seen by half a billion people and recorded 291 times. Check back in 180yrs to see how Marty Supreme is doing, yeah?

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Business owners 'heartbroken' after retail units destroyed in Glasgow fire Union Corner was home to many independent businesses that have been left with nowhere to work after the building next to Glasgow Central Station collapsed.

Reeling for all the small, independent businesses whose premises were lost with the #GlasgowCentral fire at #UnionCorner

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Heartbreak.

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In contrast to the coverup of the EPSTEIN crimes here in America, there are ongoing investigations in the UK, France, Turkey, Poland, Latvia & Lithuania that is sure to expose his central, filthy role in the largest crimes against humanity case in world history. #AccountabilityIsComing

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Movies that cost less to make than disgraced former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's $220M ad campaign:

Iron Man
The Matrix
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Top Gun: Maverick
Barbie
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 2)
The Hunger Games
Oppenheimer

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I absolutely agree, Kieran. Bereft at how apolitical so much of our theatre is.

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I always defend original writers... x

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This is why I'm a #TranslationGeek x

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My point is only that your earlier translator chose to use the more direct 'about', rather than us knowing if Brecht did. Basically just using this reply as a chance to share Edwin's translation as I love it.

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Every translator makes choices. Edwin Morgan's translation of the same Motto to the Svendborg Poems is

When the times darken
Will there be singng even then?
There will be singng even then
Of how the times darken.

Nuance, but it feels gentler and more collective?

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Time’s nearly up to respond to the DCMS public consultation on the future of the BBC! For some good inspiration and reminders of the value of the BBC for arts and culture, see the excellent paper published by Campaign For the Arts:

www.campaignforthearts.org/wp-content/u...

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I agree. Devastating.

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An absolute dream to write this for @thequietus.com about Pet Shop Boys, suburbia and the city

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The fire-damaged corner just now.

[All photographs from bbc website live feed]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

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Timothée Chalamet criticised for ‘disrespectful’ opera and ballet remarks Leading dance and opera companies have responded to the 'extraordinarily disrespectful' comments of Hollywood actor Timothée Chalamet, who claimed audiences do not care about their respective art form...

www.thestage.co.uk/news/timothe...

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100%.me too.

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