Vincent O'Connell

My favourite kind of film is the one that plays for its brief duration on the screen, and then keeps playing (and evolving, and revealing itself) in your head for days or even weeks afterwards.

Cartoon titled The Masks of Theatre. On the left, Comedy, in the middle Tragedy, and on the right looking shocked, Sauce.

I'm in love.

I'll never forget seeing John Smith and his daughters mingling in a completely normal way in the bar at the Traverse after seeing a show, and thinking- this is the guy I want leading the country.

I blame the parents.

This is a holocaust

Regret, resentment and Reform UK: jailed Rotherham rioters one year on Men sentenced to prison time for role in violent protests after the Southport murders describe their feelings of injustice

So now The Guardian is also playing the "they have reasonable grievances and we should hear them" game. Same old story of "liberal" media conniving with "liberal" governments to legitimise and enable Fascism. It ends in death camps. Which are not liberal.

Dealer.

Na mate, I took my alternative pantomime 'Clever Dick' there in January '85 with York Community Theatre, definitely best ever gig there ever, all 15 audience members thought so too.

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

"as elites extract more wealth from the people and the land, they make societies more fragile, leading to infighting, corruption, immiseration of the masses, less healthy people, overexpansion, environmental degradation and poor decision making by a small oligarchy."

They said the same about Putin. "He'll never invade Ukraine, all bluster." You make Trump sound canny, he's not, he's stupid. Completely believable he'd drop a shot on the golf course and let loose nukes.

I've certainly bought quite a number of books which I was alerted to by posts on Bluesky.

Please tell me Sophie Money-Coutts is a made up person. I mean, I wouldn't believe her in a Martin Amis novel.

One more time, just in case anyone hasn't yet seen it. Gutted at today's news of a double child drowning. Please read and share.

its my birthday. a good day to get one of my books! heres one TRANSMEDIA THEATRE PLAYS. @methuendrama.bsky.social

Let me just get my reading glasses/microscope/telescope out to see who the writer is.

What an actor. A unique way of moving, which I sometimes slink into for fun. Watch him prowl through 'Providence'.

There won't be a Palestine, or any Palestinians, by the time we get to September.

Just caught myself counting my own fingers and toes to make sure I wasn't AI generated.

People keep givin’ me the same old pitch:
“If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?”
I’ve heard that all my life, and I know it by heart.
And to tell the truth, I wish I knew,
But, America, I’m askin’ you:
If you’re so rich......why ain’t you smart?

May his memory be a blessing.
#TomLehrer

They seem to be rather better at it.

Cat Jumping, Salford, 1957, photo by Neil Libbert.

Hello, and thank you.

Ok finally put together a Bluesky #playwrights starter pack.

You should be able to add yourself (I think!) via this link go.bsky.app/7HfhHtt

Cannot see how to join the list, but please do add me if you have a moment. Thanks.

And on the basis of that paragraph alone I now wish to make the Ozzy biopic.

Was wondering what to watch this evening...

I cannot stop watching this. It HAS to be satire. The quotes "journalism" and the typing and slamming shut the book on defunding the police....I mean, it's hilarious.

If I saw this on The Day Today I would think they're over egging it.

They'd gone to see a guy called Alice.