Rachel Thomas

This is so lovely

This is so brilliant

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...

I love this place and would like to cry through the LOTR overnight marathon with strangers in it many more times. Please take a second to jot your name down too 🤍
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Once again, very much this. 👇

kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.

This is a beautiful tribute.

Booking is now open for the next Artist Surgery on 28 Jan - these free in person chats are a chance to come and meet Team NDT, and discuss anything that's on your mind (producing, fundraising, marketing, PR, career trajectory etc). More details & link to book in here:
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This is such nice news! Yay for Michael Sheen being passionate and wonderful once again 🤍

‘Hell is empty and all the devils are on hinge’ correct

I Have Some Notes A Hollywood Coverage Writer's Best Notes of the Month

Hello! I get paid to read 30-40 screenplays I read every month, and I’m starting a newsletter in January that will analyze the most common notes I give, in order to help you break down your own scripts and get to rewriting! Subscribe here! i-have-some-notes.beehiiv.com/subscribe

# me at LFF 2023 and for about a week afterwards

This is so real

Looking to connect with writers with plays that would benefit from some R&D. Flexible cast size (probs 3-10 ish). Looking for stuff with:
•Strong narrative/story
•Sparky dialogue
•Preference for work that engages with queerness, community, intimacy, legacy + I like sci-fi

Drop me a message!

This morning two theatre companies (Freedom Studios and Coney) have announced their permanent closure. Both 'left' the National Portfolio in 2023 and have found the climate impossible since. Their statements are heartbreakingly similar. Without massive funding reform many more will follow in 2025.

Fuck
What a day
Freedom Studios
Coney
National Theatre Wales
Hang on to each other
The storm is starting

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We had a FABULOUS time last week at our annual Christmas party 🎳🎄🎤 it was a great way to kick off the festive season and celebrate an excellent year!

and no…absolutely NO photoshopping happened in pic 2 🙃

Have you submitted your thoughts to our State of Arts PR survey yet? 🤔

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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.

Women's Prize for Playwriting pink logo on a yellow background. Submissions open: Monday 13th January 2025. Submissions close: Tuesday 22nd April 2025.

📢Announcing: the Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2025. Bigger, bolder, brighter.

Submissions will open on Monday 13th January and close on Tuesday 22nd April 2025.

okay, listen, who's got plays on in London in the middle/ second half of Jan? I would like to know about them!

Applying for DYCP? We've got free templates for the app, budget + timeline in our *Resources*. Save yourself from a Grantium-related disaster by writing it somewhere else first! www.the-uncultured.com/resources-ar... also helpful if you wanna know what you need to prep before deciding to apply 📝

Theatre industry leaves Elon Musk's X for Bluesky Theatre companies, advocacy groups and PRs are making the shift from X to surging social media site Bluesky, with some saying the site formerly known as Twitter is ’irrelevant’ and unhealthy

Fantastic piece on leaving X in @thestage.bsky.social by @georgialouluck.bsky.social "Managing director @rfitzm.bsky.social said the decision to leave was 'both moral and practical... X has become toxic – especially to marginalised groups, including many artists we work with.'" bit.ly/49c2P9n

How to submit a script to us Open Call is our system for receiving unsolicited original scripts.

You've 'til Tuesday for BBC #writers Open Call.

Decided I’d write 1 last thing after DECADES trying - whacked in & boom! Shortlisted for Wales writer in res & landed place on BBC Voices - where I met the BEST people

Hadn’t got anywhere for YEARS before

Don’t give up

www.bbc.co.uk/writers/oppo...

Omg I love it thankyou !!

I’m so sorry, solidarity and love x

Yes!!

Who can say? 🪄💕✨ (yes)

If you are unable to attend the #PlaywrightsChristmasParty in person please join our FREE Festive Creative Check-in Led by @naomiwesterman.bsky.social and Jane Christie on zoom - 7pm! #SupportPlaywrights
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Started crying at the overture for the Wicked movie and basically didn’t stop. 12 year old me who wore her defying gravity hoodie 24/7 and 29 year old me both needed this so much. Gorgeous, magical, gorgeous. 💖💚

Financial Resources - Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme - RTYDS Navigating Your Finances Freelancing in our industry can be precarious and unpredictable, with a baseline economic model known for its inequality, inaccessibility and squeezed resources. For an…

Are you a working class freelancer in the arts? @RTYDS has created some financial resources to help artists from low socio-economic backgrounds navigate self-employment & benefits.
Check out their advice leaflet & the @turn2us_org Benefits Calculator