Tom Morton-Smith

New poster seen in the wild! @totoroshow.bsky.social

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

Yeah, but any number of great plays/films don’t have authentic emotions, tight pacing or compelling plots. So, I don’t know, I don’t think you need any caveats/rules at all. But hey ho. It doesn’t matter.

I still reckon that’s too many rules. Does it hold the audience? That’s it.

#seascape #margate

Today marks the beginning of Risshū or Autumn.

🍃 Cool winds blow
🪰 Evening cicadas sing
🌫️ Thick fog descends

Totoro at the bus-stop with Mei and Satsuki. An official production image from the live stage show of My Neighbour Totoro.

After three years of keeping the fella a secret, here’s an official look at Totoro. He’s big and furry and smells like mud.

My Neighbour is new to Bluesky! Everybody say hello to Totoro! 🥹💚

#FindYourSpirit

There is no death for an otter, only life to the end.

OPPIE: Don't say it. It's a cursed word... a new cuss. Hiroshima ... Los Alamos... Oppenheimer - shame and bitterness and disgust. There's little point in going back. There is no science left in building bombs. The world knows my name... and it knows what I have done. A skinny ... intellectual ... elitist . New York Jew with chest problems and sciatica... ended the war. I saved many lives ... American lives. Is a soldier comparable to a civilian ... of any nationality? A child... a baby ... a pregnant mother ... a conscientious objector.. an old man at the end of his days..? This was so much philosophy ... now it is my cold sweat. (Beat.) I want to wallow in the adulation... the respect. I want to walk down the street with everyone knowing who I am. I want younger men to stumble as they talk to me. I want university boards to trip over themselves to offer me positions and awards. I want pretty young girls at trendy socialite parties to ask me questions on deep physics and hang to my every word. I want to seem effortless. I want some upstart to question my methodology only so that I may crush them with a withering reply. I accept on my soul ... on my back … I accept the weight of those Japanese. if I have brought atomic power to the world ... if I have nullified war ... then I welcome it all. But ... no ... instead... instead I feel like I've left a loaded gun in a playground. (Beat.) I must remember what those boys said as they painted me green ... because they were right about one thing ... I am not a man. A man would buckle under this weight. I am something more. I am lead-lined. I am tungsten. There's a passage in the Hindu scripture... the Bhagavad-Gita ... it came to my mind at the Trinity test ... in order to persuade the prince to do his duty, Vishnu takes on his multi-armed form and says: Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'

The closing speech of my 2015 play ‘OPPENHEIMER’.

Alexander Armstrong. Kevin Eldon as Penfold.

Hey. It’s weird to post on here asking for a favour. But I need a favour. So if you like me or like theatre or both, then have a read of this thread.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness.

My five year old has been watching the rebooted Danger Mouse. Sad it only ran for two series. But it did give us Isambard King Kong Brunel - surely the greatest mad scientist monkey villain in all of British animation.

The fucking state of this. 🙄

doctor: you have 119 minutes to live

me:

Also, I can’t really imagine the Joker voting at all. And certainly not for the far right.

Repugnant.

Broadcasting Noah Baumbach movies into space as a warning to hostile aliens.

Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver Fighting in ‘Marriage Story’ Is Being Used by the USDA to Scare Off Wolves and Save Cattle: ‘They Need to Know Humans Are Bad’ Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver fighting in 'Marriage Story' is being used by farmers to scare off wolves and save livestock.

This is why we make art.

two men are sitting at a table and one of them is saying so we really wanna see those fingers ALT: two men are sitting at a table and one of them is saying so we really wanna see those fingers

If you like UK panel shows you must search out Shooting Stars with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer - absolute gold.

Absolutely. Let me check with Jen if she’s got your email address.

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

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🌟 In London's West End, see family favourites Matilda The Musical and My Neighbour Totoro. Plus, you can catch the UK premiere of Born With Teeth, an explosively entertaining duel of wits, words and powerplay

MAN: What's that, girl? Trouble at the old mine?
LEFT-WING LASSIE: Woof! [The miners are striking for better pay and conditions]
MAN: B-but Billy's down there!
LEFT-WING LASSIE: Woof! [BILLY'S A SCAB]

Sad to hear of the death of Robert Wilson. I remember the auditorium of the Barbican emptying during the interval of The Black Rider (2004). Wilson, Tom Waits, Marianne Faithful and William S Burroughs - a dream. Those of us who remained were united in our love. A singular artist. A huge influence.

Allan Ahlberg, beloved children's author, dies aged 87 Working first with his wife Jane, and later with illustrators including Raymond Briggs and Bruce Ingman, he wrote more than 150 books Author Allan Ahlberg, who delighted generations of children with colourful characters and nimble rhymes, has died aged 87. Working with his wife Janet, an award-winning illustrator, Ahlberg produced a host of bestselling nursery classics including Burglar Bill, Peepo!, and Each Peach Pear Plum. After Janet’s death in 1994, he worked with illustrators such as Raymond Briggs and Bruce Ingman, with his career coming full circle in a series of collaborations with his daughter Jessica including Half a Pig and a pop-up set of anarchic variations on the tale of Goldilocks. Continue reading...

Allan Ahlberg, beloved children's author, dies aged 87