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Writer for Performance. 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. Plays: Red Bike, 12 Ophelias, Iphigenia Crash Land Falls.... Film: Fugitive Dreams. Artistic Director of New Play Development at Lortel Theater/NY. Editor at Contemporary Theatre Review/UK. Views mine.
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This clip of the Korean production of Chicago is several years old, but it features Choi Jae-rim, the actor playing Billy Flynn, doing **actual ventriloquism**: youtu.be/kCWBWXyUh2Q?...
dear theatre, a journey across
film tip: slightly late to the party but what crackling, fascinating, complex fun is Spike Lee's HIGHEST 2 LOWEST. anchored by an equally complex performance by Denzel Washington. with a beautiful tribute to Eddie Palmieri and his band to boot!
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y los 🐈🐈🐈 today?
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YOU GUYS. DAVID BOWIE WAS WRITING AN 18thc MUSICAL CALLED THE SPECTATOR WHEN HE DIED. Between this and Hilary Mantel’s unfinished rewriting of Pride & Prejudice… I cannot. David Bowie’s secret final project discovered locked in his study www.bbc.com/news/article...
@ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social Clean air is a human right as defined by the United Nations. Children and adults go to work and school in air that is contaminated by #SARSCoV2 this should be redesignated a level 3 biohazard.
Medea is 2000 years old & a really dangerous play still. It's something to hold it in your hand, recognise the tools you use every day & think this is 2000 years old & people are scared of it.
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saw The Goat on Broadway. audience didnt know what him them. wild play. was thinking abt what a great play of his and yet one not as frequently revisited
dear theatre, por que
mourning the passing of writer and visual artist Rosalyn Drexler. a unique, adventurous spirit.
dear theatre, lost
A great series of arts focussed articles on the environment via @ArtsPro... linktr.ee/artsprofessi... #GreenTheatre #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork
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happy birthday to Caryl Churchill. thanks for changing theatre. we are still trying to catch up.
dear theatre, the long game
soooo close to end of play
dear theatre, circling
295 human beings dead this week in the US. 133,057 new cvd cases. while leaders and enablers continue to do nothing.
"even now, in these end times, many in the industry are asking questions abt whether a piece is viable, marketable, etc. have you looked around? do you see what is happening? is the denialism so strong..."
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I really enjoyed Kelefa Sennah’s piece on pop music criticism, but this graf perhaps inadvertently puts into words my deep frustration with so much pop and rock criticism: that too little of it is about the music at all but is instead about these bogus debates… www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
it does! the collaboration begins there! if its text driven
today in pocket theatre, i write abt being in theatre's wilderness. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...
I think this is good and important AND I've also really appreciated the extended thoughts from the playwright in another script I've been reading. Worth saying that I didn't ready any of their thoughts until after I'd read the play. Do others enjoy an insight from the playwright?
i go back and forth on this but i have been circling round abt how Churchill (abd others) ask you to figure the play out. there is a trust there. tightrope. ... extended notes can be illuminating of course. like a composer giving notes before the score.
which is why i wrote Iphigenia Crash Land Falls...
thinking abt how not a single US Latinx theatre yet in the play's production history has done IPHIGENIA CRASH LAND FALLS... (which, if you know the play, is glaring)
over and over
Trouble is - as Stuart Hall so memorably said - as soon as you show scientific racism the door, it creeps around the verandah and back in through the pantry window. The idea of race is of fundamental difference. It will continually reattach itself to whatever is considered fundamental.
lovely to see my play GUAPA on the recommended lost of Transcultural Plays curated by Saviana Stanescu on @newplayexchange.bsky.social today. if you know this play, its big piece of my ⚽ heart.
The air is poisoned. The oceans are collapsing. The virus never left. But go ahead—post your smoothie bowl and pretend that’s wellness.
"The hidden costs that disabled theatremakers are being forced to swallow and the barriers to even just being part of a wider team are stopping us from producing and participating in work.” - Actor, Mark Beer. www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/hidd... #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #ArtsAccess
Climate change experts have warned that theatre buildings are not prepared for "hotter, wetter and wilder" conditions in the coming years, with older venues and buildings in large cities deemed particularly vulnerable. - Via @TheStage 👉 www.thestage.co.uk/news/theatre...
In the third and final instalment of his global study into Covid and the cultural and creative sector, Anthony Sargent argues that we must shape our institutions to be ready to withstand the future in all its unpredictability. www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...
aw thanks
dear playwrights, worth 👀 that Caryl Churchill rarely gives notes on style/tone in front matter of her plays.
dear theatre, caught
its silly. i know. given *looks around* everything. but i still dream of the big drama prize
y los 🐈🐈🐈 hoy?
oh drats!
dear theatre, the waves
where did all the Luigi energy go?
souch of all this bc ppl refuse to clean the air
"[The] majority of texts in the world are either not yet translated or have already been mistranslated." -- Yoko Tawada (tr Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda)
i agree!
dear theatre, lessons are to guide us through. remember. TOWARD A FUTURE THEATRE. @methuendrama.bsky.social
we are living in TRUTH IS A DOG world. @thistimcrouch.bsky.social warned us
dear ppl in reality 2.0, reality 1.0 needs you
here virtually in an open panel at Warwick University on performance and new technologies with @heidilulie.bsky.social at the invitation of @drjdunnehowrie.bsky.social for TaPRA 2025
all, All, all this bc the absent leaders chose to do nothing for four years
another mass shooting in the US. how many years will pass, how many deaths and gow much trauma before something is done
"im sorry. i cant risk my life to see your show."
"how are we surviving in this kind of survival, and who are we willing to delete from our language and lives in order to pretend this is a life."
i wrote THE BRICK and we are living it
when major theatre owner and commercial producer have openly endorsed the current administration you know theatre wont rlly say anything abt anything
“Current artistic director Dominic Hill said it was “all the more poignant” that Havergal died “on the same day we reopened the Citizens Theatre after 7yrs – a theatre that he worked tirelessly over more than 30yrs to make internationally renowned”… 1/2 www.thestage.co.uk/news/glasgow...
dear theatre, maybe
today in pocket theatre, i write abt when theatre redacts itself. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...
“We have long sold artists the idea that the fringe is a crucial marketplace…But that requires a robust touring circuit…Maxwell’s salutary tale points to a broken pipeline, Edinburgh as no shortcut & how making a career as an artist is a greater struggle than…ever” www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/do-w...
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His success underwrote cheap seats. He made Brecht into a draw - Glasgow lends itself to that - & did a four-hour adaptation of Proust called Wasted Time. There is a huge tree of fascinating actors who worked at the Citz, because it constantly forced you to be an entertainer & an artist.
Running a building kills many directors & turns others into hopeless bores. Giles H ran the Citz for 34 years because he cracked the code: do huge, cracking, popular productions worthy of a Victorian theatre so you can then afford to do what you want. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/a...
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when theatre begins scrubbing words from their portals in order to appease hard fash
New post just out: "The financial crisis theory of everything" Why the 2008 crash was the WW1 of our generation that led to nearly all of the problems we have today - from the rise of the radical right to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
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understood!
oh my! Paris? happy birthday! 🎉🎂🍾Snoops must wear his new outfit!
aw Daniel. i hear the 💔
If you haven't listened to it yet, do yourself a favour. Interview with the team bringing to you the English translation of Schattenfroh. open.spotify.com/episode/77Zj...
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Birthday of the great Robert Holman. According to his agent, 'The playwright who is most admired by other playwrights.' (It's true.) I was privileged to know him a little. My essay about him & his work - playfortoday.substack.com/p/robert-hol...
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We won’t see his like again R.I.P. Giles Havergal www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/a...
he was amazing. a real force in theatre
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dear theatre, aways away
its truly 🤦♀️
woot!
the era of utter disregard for everything
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in case you were wondering who a24 is in bed with... (younger K*shner runs Thrive and sits on a24s board)... www.theinformation.com/articles/wha...
goooo lads! ❤️❤️⚽
dear theatre, there's plenty
helooo Snoops! so many 🐾🐾
"many in the precariat class spend an inordinate amount of time trying desperately to prove their worth because they know they have been categorized as surplus even before they set foot in a theatre."
250 human beings dead. 115,671 new cvd cases this week in the US. while leaders and all enablers choose to do nothing.
today in pocket theatre, i write abt theatre and capitalism, or the beds we make. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...
UN data shows that in the US/Canada/Europe, about 8% of the population suffers moderate or severe food insecurity. That's 95 million people. Even in the richest countries in the world, capitalism fails to deliver something as basic as secure access to food.
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