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to say that I'm not giving up on the idea and meaning and value of criticism in ANY field, movies, books, music, theater, dance, whatever. As a reader/person/human, it has sustained me for a lifetime! We have to keep fighting for it. [End of thread—and again, apologies!]

In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...

a weird cat shaped creature with its mouth open and its teeth showing

brrrlhhhhggggggh

I hope you're okay!!

extremely charismatic white cavapoo sitting jauntily on the pavement. Red London bus zooming by in the background.

Excellent Shoreditch wanderings with one of my best pals today.

Ah, missed the parenthetical! I’d look at some of the practice-based publishers like Routledge, Palgrave, and Metheun in that case, as they have lots of case study collections of modern rehearsal. Elizabeth Tavares is also great on that stuff

Tiffany Stern was the go-to on this, though I’m not sure if there’s newer stuff out now

Incredible how Britain, a country with enormous actual problems facing accelerating decline, has a political class laser-focused on this, ninja swords, and ethnically cleansing delivery cyclists.

maybe this is the time I finally just make an actual play

nottingham is a cursed place to me now and i will never go there

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genuinely gutted i did not know about this in time

The depiction of Othello in the video game Elsinore (you help Ophelia escape a time loop/her death) would be interesting to look at in this context (including why he’s there at all)

Jewish comedians cancelled by Edinburgh Fringe venue due to 'safety concerns' - Jewish News Rachel Creeger and Phillip Simon were abruptly told last Friday that their bookings, at a venue they had used for many years, had been removed

Since it’s happening in the U.K. I’ll say it this way. This proper fucked up. Just absolute rank antisemitism pure and simple. Cancelling Jewish comedians shows pure because they’re Jewish.

www.jewishnews.co.uk/jewish-comed...

the karma of a stupid run up will never be defeated

betsy went and sat next to a random couple in the coffee shop this morning and by the time we left they were talking about getting a dog, so. work done for the day.

listen i am TRYING

As part of relaunching my newsletter I’m going to try to get back into attending Shakespeare-themed events etc, so if you have anything coming up (evenings and weekends only) do let me know!

oh noooo. I always feel so bad for actors who get stuck onstage for 20 min+ pre-show business, too...

Thank you so much, that's so nice to hear!

Thank you!

Cordelia Now for something a little different

open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...

Once upon a time I had a newsletter about Shakespeare and performance, and I felt the sudden urge to pick it back up. New post, check it out!

I realised this autumn will be the 5-year anniversary of finishing my PhD which does NOT seem possible

Oh what a sweet question! My faves have probably been a rogue who was the second-in-command to the city spymaster and a soldier who was secretly a wild magic sorcerer

Thank you though!

Haha yep I already work in a university and would like to get out

I'm definitely not expecting to get actual creative work by this or any method lol, but just being in an arts-related org would be really lovely