Nastazja Domaradzka

Watching the verdicts in the Gisèle Pelicot trial come in live on the BBC News page is sobering. So many names. Guilty all.

Important 🧵👇🏻

I’ve kept kinda quiet on this quite deliberately, I was waiting to see what the theatre/performance arts response to this would be. I honestly can’t hold my tongue any longer…

WAKE UP FFS, THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW AND NO ONE IS COMMENTING ON IT.

Fuuuck… we are sleep walking. AGAIN!👇🏾

READ IT!!

I say this to all my male followers with love in the same way I do with my family and friends - have those uncomfortable conversations with the men in your life. Don’t allow the casual misogyny in conversations. Challenge abusive behaviour. Do the work. It’s on you. It always has been.

Saw it twice !

For what it’s worth my show of the year was undoubtably Nowhere by Khalid Abdalla. Still thinking about it. Always will.

Fuck
What a day
Freedom Studios
Coney
National Theatre Wales
Hang on to each other
The storm is starting

Freedom Studios Closing Statement - Freedom Studios With great sadness, the board of trustees announces the closure of Freedom Studios. Freedom Studios was established in 2007 as a new writing theatre company based in Bradford and became known for cele...

Some sad news out of Bradford today. How much longer can we keep shouting about the state of arts funding in this country?

…And now National Theatre of Wales! My god. Their production of The Passion with Michael Sheen remains the blueprint for me in terms of community engagement work and galvanising a whole town around an artistic endeavour. Gutting.

fuckin hell

Both Coney and Freedom Studios announcing they’re closing in the space of 24 hours. One organisation where I am a former board member and the other where I worked alongside force of nature Madani Younis. Both very close to my heart and helped shape me and my work. Gutting end to the year.

I know this will seem obvious to anyone who works in the arts or loves the arts but I genuinely think it needs saying again and again - I watched my son's secondary school xmas show last night and saw kids I've known for years shed all shyness and self consciousness to perform and it was beautiful

This morning two theatre companies (Freedom Studios and Coney) have announced their permanent closure. Both 'left' the National Portfolio in 2023 and have found the climate impossible since. Their statements are heartbreakingly similar. Without massive funding reform many more will follow in 2025.

The slick and ‘ sexy’ British aesthetic…so predictable.

Such a surprising and lovely photo!

or they start with one and there vision and mission drift as their own continued survival becomes the primary concern.

I really wanted to love intermezzo but lack of any character in these people, cultural nuance ( throwing a bit of Eastern European diversity but being too comfortable to actually interrogate it properly ) and just again writing about rich people’s problems , makes it so boring

Theatre has a vision problem.

When I say vision, I mean an articulation of why a building or organisation exists. A purpose. A statement of how you want to change the world.

A coherent, inspiring vision was essential to everything we did at Company Three.

But so many theatres don’t have one.

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Proud of our community ensemble presenting a short performance inspired by "Home, Mother Tongues and what unites us" at The Engine Room in #tottenham

#migranttheatre
#refugeeswelcome
#noborders
#migration
#theatre

It’s only a matter of time until they make that MUSICAL about LUIGI 🙃

The world is a cruel fucking place. It’s difficult to take. On one hand Dick Van Dyke is still working and dancing aged 99. On the other he’s doing it for Coldplay 😔

Another tone-deaf increase in a cost of living crisis, the NT are putting their most accessible membership up to £60 from £25 as well... sorry lads, but you've lost me there.

Interview with Louise Bourgeois

Luigi Mangione, the CEO killing, and social murder The killing of Brian Thompson - the late UnitedHealthcare CEO - raises the question of which killings are seen as tolerable, and which are not.

Luigi Mangione exposes the difference between individual murder and social murder.

New post 👇

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We need to talk about theatre’s silence on Palestine Is it sensitivity, or censorship, that’s behind the lack of response on British stages?

In today's piece, @hollyomahony.bsky.social explores why so many British theatres have been silent on the conflict - and attends a workshop on how to talk about Palestine ‘in a way that’s meaningful and not defensive’

What can (many) big arts organisations learn from (many) small, community ones?

I’ll start - kind, thoughtful, human communication with freelancers.

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