Rowena Bentley

‘It’s soul-destroying’: actors’ fury over the rise of self-tape auditions Equity union says filming audition scenes at home amounts to unpaid labour and reinforces elitism

'Soul destroying'✔️ www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

Looking forward to this today. 😊

Lyn Gardner Interviews Anna Morris Ahead of Son of a Bitch at Southwark Playhouse | by Lyn Gardner on Stagedoor The Edinburgh Fringe First Award-winning play explores the complexities of motherhood and challenges the idealised image of parenthood

"It doesn’t help anyone when we divide women into the childless and the mothers”

@lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social interviews Anna Morris for @stagedoorldn.bsky.social ahead of the Southwark Playhouse run of her show Son of a Bitch 🤬✈️👶

stagedoor.com/theatre-guid...

( @thethelmas.bsky.social )

Mark Ravenhill reveals 10 new plays to be performed over two days The writer of Shopping and Fucking will direct cycle of bawdy comedies inspired by scenarios from a 17th-century Italian collection

Friends ive got something to tell you … and booking opens today ! www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/f...

Art as superpower: How Hastings harnesses creativity to build resilient communities - Arts Professional Perched on the English Channel, Hastings attracts considerable migration. But, as Dee Haughney shares, the work of a trailblazing charity enables its diverse communities to come together to build solidarity...

Perched on the English Channel, Hastings attracts considerable migration. But, as Dee Haughney shares, the work of a trailblazing charity enables its diverse communities to come together to build solidarity through creativity.

Whoever it was on here, that posted to watch this film, thank you.
A film so profoundly moving & so tenderly directed by Colm Bairéad. It was completely beautiful & I cannot stop thinking about it.

The Prince Charles Cinema and the death of the West End No city has as flagrant a disregard for its own culture as London.

‘But what is a culture secretary, or a mayor, or a state for – if not to intervene? To expect intervention is not naive…’

www.newstatesman.com/culture/2025...

#theatre dear UK theatre pals: on Feb 21 at 1 PM, join us @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social for reading of my new play KORA K. A ghost story about the self and the space between truth and fiction. Or the story of a translator. tix: orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/kor...

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An important windsock on how the whole world could, and should, move forward on creating a world which is kinder to animals, takes vital steps on lowering our disastrous carbon bootprint, and finding ways we can all agree upon. Denmark, thankfully and intelligently, is pointing the way.

When you've been working as a translator for years and you get booted, to be replaced by AI.
Bloody hell..

One of the best job applications ever written came from the hands of Robert Pirosh in 1934.
MGM loved it, took him on and in 1949 he won an Oscar for ‘Battleground’.

Absolutely has to stop, for cryin'out loud.

Save The Prince Charles Cinema The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...

#SaveThePCC

Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.

For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;

you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

Just innocent little children.
Incomprehensible.

Biden commutes life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, 80 Native American activist spent half a century in prison over 1975 murder of two FBI agents in South Dakota

Liberation for Leonard Peltier finally, after 50yrs inside.
At least something good happened today stateside.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

God yes! Still get goosebumps thinking of it.

Monday is a day to celebrate Martin Luther King and David Lynch‘s 79th birthday.

Stunning photo of him. A fine actor.
But a very sad birthday for him today though.
With sympathy.

Hah! The real upside of procrastination..

This is very sad news indeed.

Six decades of award winning work, a truly amazing career. 👏🏼👏🏼

London’s West End Theatres will dim their lights at 7pm on Tuesday 21 January in remembrance of #Dame #JoanPlowright ✨

So sad this day, January 17th 2025.
She was just Joan, or occasionally, Miss Plowright backstage. A fine actress, with a lovely sense of humour.

Farewell dear Lady & thank you for your kindness,
never forgotten.

A very sad farewell, to the creative genius #DavidLynch
Thank you.
Thank you, for sharing your imagination with us. Your creativity, endlessly inspiring.

Discovered it in the library & used it for my first ever theatre audition. Influenced me too. ♥️

Embrace the art of sashiko. Gives moth eaten things a chance to live on.

I love running this course. I hate promoting it. Please share so I can fill the last few places and start talking about nonsense again.

Hundreds of theatres and museums face closure as crisis in sectors laid bare Alarm in sector as four in 10 of Britain’s theatres as well as many regional museums containing local and national archives are on the brink of closure

It’s going to be tough to hold anyone’s attention but pointing out the 50% reduction in arts funding and the imminent closure of somewhere nearing 40% theatres mid-panto season is a good move. Just desperately hoping the govt has a plan for this #theatre #arts
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Gone in 2024, but not forgotten..
👏🏼👏🏼

Merry Christmas all. 🎄
No animals were harmed in the making of this..
#familyofvegans #tryit #savetheplanet🌍