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Sign the Petition Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community

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PITCH: An updated version of the curse of Cassandra where she's describing things that are happening now, in front of everyone, but still isn't believed.

Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.

Like moving an image in MS Word?

Find it very annoying that in light of the horrible shit that’s happening to trans people in the US, the narrative of cis progressives is still “he won’t stop at trans people!!” when it is actually bad even if he did stop there as trans people are, in fact, people

LOST GIRL - The Lowry - PRODUCER CALL OUT LOST GIRL - The Lowry - PRODUCER CALL OUT From award-winning playwright Amy Lever, Lost Girl is a solo play exploring girlhood and identity crisis through the lens of Jewish-Arab heritage. Performe...

Amy Lever’s play ‘Lost Girl’ has been programmed at The Lowry in September - with me directing - and we’re on the lookout for a producer.

Deadline is this Friday

Application pack here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.

A horrific image of a someone who seems to have his hands tied behind his back. A big cat (the predator kind, not the overfed pet kind) has jumped up at him and is devouring his face. Blood splashes on the floor.

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.

#MosaicMonday

The thing that scares me the most about this whole situation, as someone who finds comedy in the most painful places for a living - this isn’t fucking funny. I can’t make it funny.

Lyn Gardner: Starmer’s searching for economic growth? The arts are a sure-fire bet The Labour government will be missing a trick if they do not understand that the arts are ready and willing to make themselves useful and simultaneously bring joy and a return on investment, says Lyn ...

Keir Starmer’s searching for economic growth? Theatre and the arts are ready and willing to do their bit, writes
@lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social 👇

www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/star...

Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘crapulence’ (18th century): sickness or indisposition resulting from excessive drinking or eating.

Eek I love him so so much.

BREAKING NEWS: multiple sources have confirmed that the person reading this is worthy of love

Adoring #DuvetKnowItsChristmas. For the little window on shared Christmas nonsense ofc but also because wow, everyone else's house is full of random shit just piled in a corner.

Consuming arts and culture is good for health and wellbeing, research finds Engaging with arts improves quality of life, increases productivity and creates financial ‘dividend’

🚨 Consuming culture is good for your health and wellbeing – and generates £8bn a year worth of improvements in people’s quality of life and higher productivity. 🎭 = 💷

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

the theatre is the people, not a building #theatre

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

Chris MacCausland: “With opportunity and support, anything can happen.” #Strictly

Petition: An independent evaluation of the Cass review on child gender services We believe that trans healthcare should be based on unbiased research that is peer reviewed. We think that the Cass review's findings have led to restrictive practices that are being directly felt by ...

We're all signing. Aren't we.

I have the same thing. My Dr called them facial migraine. I've been taking the meds for 6 months now and ice gone from daily sinus headaches to only getting them if I have a cold or have a few drinks. It's worth persevering with and took a while to kick in.

My insults were lackluster so I read some Shakespeare and now I see before me a cretinous, witless fool, hapless and ever prone to folly.

25th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards: Vote now – Awards.WhatsOnStage.com Voting is now open for the 25th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards You can find out who wins live at the event on 9 February 2025 - tickets are still on sale now. *You can read our privacy policy here.

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Bursting with pride and joy that these two incredible productions and the extraordinary Anne Odeke have been nominated for What's On Stage awards. If you loved them as much as I did and do, please vote. Link below. I'm a very happy voice coach today.

A screen shot of a tweet that says: GRAVEYARD MAN E @n... •14/05/2019 William Blake stans: this man is visionary... a true psychedelic mystic and seer of old Albion William Blake: tiger tiger you are neat seeing you's a real big treat

I think about this tweet every time I post Nael’s poem

The greatest poet of our, or any, generation

I honestly - not even joking - will think less of you as a person if you do the Whamageddon thing. Have some respect for the voice of an angel, a true comrade, and a song whose proceeds all go to charity. It's a stone cold banger. Go get mad at Paul McCartney.

I really like wordplay because sometimes words need to have fun too

Spuggy and Blue Flash! Core memories of the big TV being wheeled in. Loved a Friday afternoon TV lesson.

Headline quoting Judi dench saying everyone should have a parrot

Not even going to read the article, headline alone is just perfect