Helen Keegan

My year in theatre - 2025 A personal blog by Helen Keegan about theatre arts, music, performance, drama and the theatre industry, focused primarily in London and the UK.

My year in theatre 2025 - With 163 shows seen (not including concerts), I've seen a lifetime of theatre in just 12 months. Here's a blog post with some of the high and low lights devotedtotheatre.blogspot.com/2025/12/my-y... #theatre #londontheatre What was the best thing you saw this year?

*waves*! It was more than 163 if you include concerts. I've done a bit of reviewing for 1883 Magazine this year and some Offies assessments. Writing reviews is not an easy task. They take at least a couple of hours to write something decent, longer if the show was a bit meh.

Yes, this. So much this ⬇️

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

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Yeah, baby, we're back! Yes, it's that time of year mobile friends when 100,000 or so of us descend on Barcelona for our annual shindig that is Mobile World Congres...

Yeah, baby, I'm gonna be back one more time with team #SwedishBeers. We're heading to #Barcelona for #MWC25 and we're hosting our annual bash for the SEVENTEENTH time! Come on down. Skal!
RSVP required. Info here: swedishbeers.blogspot.com/2025/02/yes-...

That's grifting and a half! I'm not sure how much more eye-rolling my eyes can take 😯

Happy birthday to my old Worcester SYT chum, Rufus @nationaltheatre.org.uk . I hope it's a good 'un!

It's horrifying. Apocalyptic even.

Blimey, it's a bit chilly today! 🥶🧊

I was disappointed to see you that C4 is running this too. I figured you might have something to say about it!

I imagine there has been an increase everywhere. It's utterly depressing and feels like a battle that will never be won.

And Cary Grant

Frank Sinatra

As we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Devoted and Disgruntled next year, we are looking back at stories that have come out of, shaped and contributed to D&D. What does D&D mean to you? Was there an interesting experience or change that happened because of a D&D event? Share these stories with us!

I was there for press night. It's really good!

If you're out for a Boxing Day walk and spot a memorial bench, be a sweetie and snap a photo of it for openbenches.org

THANKS GANG!

new bloggage: The art of the pre- and the post- show - some thoughts as a reply to @edent.tel 's recent post on the topic technokitten.blogspot.com/2024/12/on-a... #londontheatre

Best Christmas thread every year!

One of the musical theatre whatsapp groups I'm in is going crazy for this today! *Everyone* is posting their list and there's much debate about which list is better!

An image of the London Palladium theatre at night showing a large poster promoting Dirty Rotten Scoundrels musical showing the actors Hadley Freeman and Ramin Karimloo. There is a crowd outside the theatre with umbrellas as it's raining. The theatre is floodlit.

New bloggage: My month in theatre - November 2024 (It was a busy month!) technokitten.blogspot.com/2024/12/my-m...

The Glorious French Revolution (or: Why Sometimes it Takes a Guillotine to Get Anything Done) - a review Helen Keegan, aka technokitten, writes about mobile marketing, mobile advertising, mobile media, apps, AI and emerging technologies

New bloggage: I've published my review of the play I saw tonight technokitten.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-...
TL:DR It's a 90 minute bonkers but brilliant roller coaster ride of the who, what, why and how of the French Revolutions at The New Diorama Theatre. Recommended.

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Tools like screen readers, magnifiers, voice control, adaptive keyboards, or customisations (e.g., high contrast, etc)? If so, I’d love to hear from you—especially in you're in the UK.

#Accessibility #AssistiveTech

And it's exactly how my day is going! There is a need for a long lie-in today after theatre last night followed by 3 hours singing Musical Theatre favourites at Overtures @ Louche.

“We need a brand name that has a faint whiff of the exotic, but also conveys a strong sense that we are people in the business of selling garage doors”

That is my hope!

So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu to Ada Lovelace Day Live Helen Keegan, aka technokitten, writes about mobile marketing, mobile advertising, mobile media, apps, AI and emerging technologies

I'm sad to read that @adalovelaceday.bsky.social Live is closing. So much so, I wrote a blog post about it. technokitten.blogspot.com/2024/11/so-l... FWIW, despite the multiple closures of DEI projects in STEM, the work is not done. Well done to @suw.bsky.social for all the hard work put into this.

Swedish Beers - #16 The 'Are We Really Doing This Again?' Edition, 2024 We had so much fun last year that we're back again! If you are an executive working in or around the mobile industry, please join us.

It's that cutting up the beer tokens time again. Yes, Swedish Beers in Barcelona is tonight at Space Cowboy from 7pm. Not registered yet, do it now please! swedishbeersbcn2024.eventbrite.co.uk #MWC24 #swedishbeers I'm really excited to be seeing everyone later! Skål!

Helen Keegan on Instagram: "I've just been lucky enough to watch a preview screening of the new film, Cabrini, courtesy of @kovapr . What an amazing story! Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini is the first Am... 0 likes, 0 comments - technokitten_ on February 20, 2024: "I've just been lucky enough to watch a preview screening of the new film, Cabrini, courtesy of @k..."

Cabrini. What a film! What a story. I did a short review over on Insta. TL:Dr go see the film. You need to know this story and know this extraordinary woman.
www.instagram.com/p/C3ld00II0k...
#cabrini #kovaPR

New bloggage: Swedish Beers time in Barcelona is coming up. Info and RSVP here - swedishbeers.blogspot.com/2024/02/swed... Free to attend for executives working in the mobile technology sector.