Hidden Track

Our first pick of the Fringe!

Afreena is an incredibly charismatic performer, a brilliant writer, and - most importantly - this is a proper no messing about quiz.

Fun, touching, human, and a show that can be enjoyed by real people and not just theatre people, absolutely fantastic.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ From us!

How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guasrdian columnist George Monbiot

Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people.
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Playwrights! Screenwriters! Friends of playwrights and screenwriters! If you're in London on the 24th July PLEASE join us for a #SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial at Soho Theatre Walthamstow. Pls share.

Resistance in Game Space Level up! Come down to this multimedia day to explore the ways people are subverting rules, hierarchies and norms in and around video games

I'm speaking at Resistance in Game Space on Sat 26th July in Edinburgh!

It's a *free* event by @rachelhamada.bsky.social featuring an exhibition, a workshop about unionising in video games, and a discussion about the gamification of society, and a curated film screening. Come along!

event poster, painting of a woman holding a dog with a poker visor and cards. text reads: Car Boot Casino: a night of homebrew card, bluffing and betting games. Tuesday 8 July 2025, 7pm - late, Brighton £7.99

UK playful pals & mutuals- we've been given a bit more capacity for our boutique Car Boot Casino night at Develop on Tues 8 July

If you enjoy homebrew card & bluffing games, poker visors, janky prizes then ticket details are below:

www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-zz...
Code: DOGPLAYINGPOKER

this is the real use case for AI: creating a centralized source of "truth" that can be altered at the whim of its fascist owners. technology cannot be disconnected from its financial backing & political consequences. pretending it "could be useful" in a vacuum is a fantasy. bsky.app/profile/pale...

Giving this a lil refresh - are you an/do you know any artist/companies hanging around in the interactive-y, immersive-y, gaming-y, audience pressing buttons and shouting and throwing stuff bit of theatre?

Let us know, and we'll get them on the list!

#Interactive #Immersive #Gaming #Theatre

Just went to a workshop on creating interactive theatre and it made me realise how unusual my perspective is as someone who's come into theatre from video game design.

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Absolutely!
Haven't updated this list in a little while, so let's give it a wee revamp...

Pieces of a slightly ripped cardboard box, saying 'Handle with Care - A performance from Ontroerend Goed'

Just had the privilege of being in a room of wonderful people, with a phenomenal piece of #interactivetheatre, and the most compelling thing a room full of wonderful people can possibly be given:

A MYSTERY BOX.

Fantastic as always @ontroerendgoed.bsky.social

ontroerendgoed.be/en/projecten...

The Greens have eviscerated Labour in a council by-election in Haringey. This is David Lammy's constituency.💚🌳
@zackpolanski.bsky.social

Attention small theatres - still time to apply for this fantastic opportunity to have your seats refurbished by prestigious Race Furniture

Deadline: Monday 28 April

www.theatrestrust.org.uk/ssa

Review: MICHAEL ROSEN: GETTING THROUGH IT, Cambridge Corn Exchange | West End Best Friend Michael Rosen is currently touring with ‘Getting Through It’, a powerful one-person show exploring grief and mortality.

Very nice review of our show, touring now:
www.westendbestfriend.co.uk/news/review-...

Lyn Gardner: Time for the arts to look beyond ACE funding? Thinking outside the box can help theatre companies find funding routes independent of pinched Arts Council England, says Lyn Gardner

Thinking differently and beyond ACE investment is urgent and needs to be done now, writes @lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social 👇

Remarkable clip.

The OBR apparently has a new role - a tool for ministers to outsource the negative impacts of government policy.

Hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure, the sold out production of TOXIC, the powerful and passionate play by Nathaniel J Hall and Dibby Theatre Productions, hits the playhouse this week!

🎭 Thu 20 – Fri 21 Mar

🎟️https://bit.ly/4iSs7x9

⚠️ WEEKLY WARNING

🔍 discover new #performance to watch in #Manchester and beyond…

📰 read our latest #signpost to the bizarre, beautiful, and best upcoming shows and events…

🎟️ Two new productions have just gone on sale for 2025 🎟️

Liberation with Factory International for #MIF25 27 JUN - 26 JUL
Dancing at Lughnasa with @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social 11 OCT - 8 NOV

Get 10% off total ticket price when you get tickets at the same time! 👉️ rxtheat.re/GSale25Fb

Here’s how Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement must offer hope 'The government needs to recalibrate policies'

Just 1% of the UK population has wealth of £2.8 trillion, compared to £2.4 trillion held by 70% of the population combined.

The richest FOUR Britons have more wealth than 20m people combined.

Rich have hijacked govts.

Must tax the rich to improve life chances of the rest.

Keir Starmer has declared war on disabled people.

Labour are planning to be even crueller than the Tories.

Is this why people join Labour - to kick vulnerable people?

New post 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/labour-dec...

Labour mollifies the rich, targets disabled people and claims moral justification. There isn’t any | Frances Ryan Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

Choosing to take money from disabled benefit claimants rather than levy a wealth tax is simply immoral 👇

The Government is planning to unveil more than £6 billion of welfare cuts that will see even people with extreme disabilities lose money.

None of this is necessary. Billions could be raised by taxing the super-rich fairly.

Labour are choosing to punish the most vulnerable.

Jeremy Corbyn: Keir Starmer says there's no money - I don't believe him The government cites 'difficult choices' when they are harming the most vulnerable, but increasing defence spending is apparently easy.

Jeremy Corbyn: Keir Starmer says there's no money - I don't believe him
metro.co.uk/2025/03/05/j...

Keir Starmer, you claim huge and damaging cuts are vital so we can buy arms and defend ourselves. Prove it | Owen Jones Splurging the cash is not the answer to Europe’s security jitters. Let’s ignore the hyperbole and decide what’s actually needed, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

"We have to make cuts so we can build more bombs".

I think this is bollocks.

Defence spending involves vast amounts of waste.

Russia represents a real and hideous threat to Ukraine. The threat beyond that is exaggerated.

New column 👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A reminder for these times.

And then after the obvious rejoinder—"Ukraine is at war with an aggressive foreign invader, and Ukrainian law says they can't hold elections under such martial circumstances"—expect nonsense about how America is under invasion too (defined not as armed attack, but as unarmed people walking north).

When Trump tries to postpone elections at some point one argument his people will make is, “But Zelensky postponed elections and you didn’t think that made him a dictator.”

Just get ready for that. It’s coming.

This new exhibition has turned Manchester into a playable video game Family-friendly installation offers a very different kind of virtual experience - bringing people together, rather than apart.

Very proud to have produced this work for Factory International with artists BRiGHTBLACK, who co-created it with 14 Greater Manchester residents. Come along this weekend and spend some time in the clouds!

#TheatreSky #CreaTech #CreativeTechnology

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/art...

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