Catriona MacLeod

Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.

Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large

Emerging artists networking at Framework Festival 2025 in a green filter. There are two banners to create the appearance of an Instagram post. The text “deadline: 2 weeks today for Framework’s Fringe Takeover 2025!”

Would your #edfringe show benefit from a wee bit extra marketing support? If you’re an emerging artist/company permanently based in Scotland - you should absolutely apply to our Fringe Takeover! 📲

🔗 For more info & to apply: www.frameworktheatre.com/fringetakeover

An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" The practice, an expert warns, could lead to "reprisals and retribution by the police for your politics.”

An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house."

The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.

Lung Ha Theatre Company Launches Groundbreaking Access and Creative Principles Toolkit - Lung Ha Theatre Company We have distilled over 40 years of experience in making theatre performances with learning disabled actors into the first edition of our Access and Creative Principles Toolkit, filled with insights, p...

We are delighted to announce the launch of our Access and Creative Principles Toolkit! We've distilled over 40 years of experience in making theatre performances with learning disabled actors into this new publication filled with insights, practical tips and examples:
www.lungha.com/2025/06/lung...

Hospital director says 24 killed by Israeli fire while waiting for aid in Rafah - live updates The Israeli military says it fired shots near an aid distribution complex after identifying

“Nasser Hospital says 24 people have been killed & dozens injured by Israeli fire while waiting for aid distribution in Rafah…
roughly the same location where…Israeli forces killed 31 people on Sunday”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

Panel discussion from Framework Festival 2025.

We’ll search for the perfect opportunities so you don’t have to 🙏

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Microsoft-backed Builder.ai collapsed after finding potentially bogus sales Failed UK start-up revised down revenues to just a quarter of prior estimates

What we should do is throw long-standing copyright law that underpins the socially valuable and fiscally over-performing cultural industries on a bonfire, in unflinching service of companies exactly like this one. I am extremely clever and I am also the British government. www.ft.com/content/926f...

How the George Floyd Protests Prepared Us for This Moment of State Violence Our collective actions are part of an ongoing struggle and resistance, not a final resting place.

"It's important to reflect, not just on our collective actions, but the state’s violent response to them...There will always be a response. But so many of the people protesting for the first time in 2020 didn’t know that."

Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/george...

“I’ve studied McCarthyism’s impact on higher education for 50 years. What’s happening now is worse.” -Ellen Schrecker, historian

Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

Paisley for Palestine seeks a director for a rehearsed reading of a short play, No Lessons Learned by Alex Cathcart, this Autumn. Role is unpaid, as all funds are going to Medical Aid for Palestine, but Paisley for Palestine will provide admin and tech support. Details from cathcart.aw81@gmail.com.

Fuck Eurovision man. So we narrowly avoided a blatantly astroturfed PR victory for Israel on the platform that has chosen to normalise its genocide? Fantastic. Over 100 more dead in Gaza since the start of last night's programme.

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Background image from Framework Festival 2024 in an orange filter. Three professional headshots of panellists Catriona, Alex & Eve.

MEET THE INDUSTRY PANEL for Framework Festival 2025! 🎪

🧡 Catriona MacLeod
🧡 Alex Bird
🧡 Eve Nicol

Register for your free ticket here: www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/eve...

Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X Elon Musk’s AI bot is undressing women on X.

Things are going well on the everything app: www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...

Image of Liz Strange sitting on a staircase, hands clasped, looking at the camera. She is a white woman with dark brown cropped hair. She is wearing a grey top, jeans and glasses.

📣 Introducing the Nosferatu team...

@mslizstrange.bsky.social - Social Media Support

Liz is an Edinburgh based actor, physical theatre maker and facilitator. Her experience and interest in visual, participatory and interactive theatre has lead her to channel her skills into social media support...

Blurry image from Framework Festival 2024 with orange filter. Text contains information about the casting call featured in caption.

We’re so excited to have ‘Witchy Slag Gals’ performed at our Framework Festival 2025 scratch! 🎪

Set in the kitchen of a fourth-floor tenement flat in Edinburgh, ‘Witchy Slag Gals’ is a thrilling comedy-horror written by Rose Murray.

A group picture of the creative team The Brown Doll.

Well done to The Brown Doll team for opening today!

Want a bit more? Join us on Wed, 30 April for a free post show-discussion💬

Hosted by Brian Logan, our Artistic Director, this panel features writer Cilla Silvia, along with cast members Sharan Atwal and Rachel Ogilvy.

➡️ bit.ly/PPPTheBrownD...

Kinda fascinating seeing everyone lose their shit over Kneecap. Calls from on high to ban them, debates over whether they mean what they say, heads exploding over how they could be so provocative. People. May I introduce you to something called 'rap music'

I can’t go to this wonderful show this week, but I wanted to support the team bringing this important story to the stage. _and friends will buy two tickets and give them away.

Shoot us a message with the date of your choice and your email address. We’ll get your ticket + email you the confirmation.

Headshots of the two writers (Erin and Rose) with a picture from Framework Festival 2024 in the background, with an orange filter.

Introducing the writers for our Framework Festival scratch event - Erin Boulter & Rose Murray! 🎪

⏰ If you fancy directing one of the script excerpts - the deadline to apply is tomorrow @ 10am! Be sure to visit our website for more info: www.frameworktheatre.com/work-with-us

'Stop Sending These Stained Clothes': Fast Fashion Is Destroying These Cities— and Lives See fashion's last stop, the places where your used clothing is harming ecosystems, polluting the environment, and driving often-dangerous markets.

This Earth Day, we're looking back at what really happens to your used clothing.

This is fashion's last stop, where your used clothing harms ecosystems, pollutes the environment, and drives often dangerous markets. Read more here ⤵️

Remember when I quit the Labour Party years ago and said it was institutionally transphobic and people told me that it wasn’t, the problem was just Rosie Duffield, and that I should stay and fight? Well, well, well.

It's been 51 days since ANY humanitarian aid has entered Gaza. Israeli Minister of Defense Katz has said: "Israel’s policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza."
 
This is a war crime.
 
We must end our complicity. NO more military aid for Netanyahu's war machine.

Beacon Arts Centre: Beacon Young Company Create - Writer - YTAS Beacon Art Centre's Young Company, invite writers to get in touch to pitch their portfolio, to create new work in 2025 with their Young People.

Greenock's @thebeaconarts.bsky.social Young Company are looking for a writer to collaborate with them and create a new work in 2025 ytas.org.uk/opportunitie... (deadline - 28 Apr 2025)

Supreme Court rules sex is biological in victory for gender critical feminists THE Supreme Court has ruled that women are defined by biology in a landmark judgment which deals a blow to transgender campaigners.

After everything feminists fought so hard for, we are now legally reduced to and defined by biology. A win for project 2025 and MAGA fascism www.thenational.scot/news/2509385...

We had another absolutely jam packed _and friends scratch night on Sunday, curated by Hacks and featuring some brilliant artists. Thank you to our community for showing up consistently and generously - we paid our artists a fair wage thanks to ticket sales & will be announcing our next event soon!

Shout out to ambitious plays that deserve a running time of 2.5 hours but are forced into 55 minutes because that’s the only format available.

Theatre reviews: Ivor | Alas Poor Yorick Climate change, the ethics of activism and empty nest syndrome make for a potent mix in Ivor, writes Joyce McMillan

Review at Scotsman Arts of Jennifer Adam's Ivor, opening at the Traverse Theatre today - the last of this season's A Play, A Pie and A Pint dramas to transfer to Edinburgh. Also an unexpected evening at The Studio last week, revisiting Hamlet with Ridiculusmus Theatre & Lung Ha's Theatre Company.

Jocasta, dressed in blue greek-style rope, is on stage. She looks she is telling a story with a painful facial expression on her face.

Jocasta is here, ready to tell her story...

🏛️Jocasta, Oedipus's mother, now stands at the gates of the Underworld, seeking safe passage from the Gods. But the fee? Her version of the Greek tragedy we all think we know.

See this darkly funny drama until this Sat 19 Apr at Òran Mór.

📸 Tommy GKW

Bright, colourful graphic promoting Deaf Youth Theatre (DYT) as part of 'Positive Stories for Negative Times' Season 4 (2024/25). The large text reads 'DYT - Deaf Youth Theatre' in bold pink, yellow and blue. Below, there are playful red illustrations of a cat playing electric guitar and a frog holding a clapperboard, surrounded by creative equipment like a microphone, laptop, camera and lighting. Logos for Wonder Fools (the producers) and Traverse Theatre (in association) appear in the corner.

✨ We are SO excited that our INCREDIBLE Deaf Youth Theatre will be performing at @traversetheatre.bsky.social as part of Positive Stories for Negative Times — produced by our friends @wonderfools.org 🎭💥