Craig Baxter
@craignbaxter.bsky.social
BAGA-award-winning playwright, dreamer, fully competent
I’ve dreamed about Margaret Thatcher and George Osborne previously but my subconscious lurched even further to the right last night with the first appearance in my dreams of Nigel Farage. He and I were playing nicely together in a Lego play pit with a bunch of primary school children.
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I’ve dreamed about Margaret Thatcher and George Osborne previously but my subconscious lurched even further to the right last night with the first appearance in my dreams of Nigel Farage. He and I were playing nicely together in a Lego play pit with a bunch of primary school children.
Dreamed someone (can’t remember who) asked me why I wore deodorant. I replied it was just force of habit and I’d been doing it since 1974. My friend Ken defended me saying he thought there was nothing wrong with that
November 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Dreamed someone (can’t remember who) asked me why I wore deodorant. I replied it was just force of habit and I’d been doing it since 1974. My friend Ken defended me saying he thought there was nothing wrong with that
Dreamed I attempted to release a geneticist from our local mental institution (I had been partially responsible years ago for his sectioning). Unfortunately I scraped the car in the institution’s car park and had to abort the operation
October 31, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Dreamed I attempted to release a geneticist from our local mental institution (I had been partially responsible years ago for his sectioning). Unfortunately I scraped the car in the institution’s car park and had to abort the operation
I wrote another one: Henry V part 2 open.substack.com/pub/craigbax...
Henry V Part 2
Enter the two Bishops of Canterbury and Ely.
open.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I wrote another one: Henry V part 2 open.substack.com/pub/craigbax...
I renounce my humanity
October 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I renounce my humanity
I renounce my age (60), generation (X) and my star sign (Taurus the bull)
October 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I renounce my age (60), generation (X) and my star sign (Taurus the bull)
I renounce my introversion and anxiety
October 23, 2025 at 6:57 AM
I renounce my introversion and anxiety
I renounce all my musical tribes and loose affiliations (heavy rockers, proggers, post-punks, New Romantics, fey indie boys, grungers, disco divas, math rockers, art poppers, minimalists, atonalists, etc)
October 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I renounce all my musical tribes and loose affiliations (heavy rockers, proggers, post-punks, New Romantics, fey indie boys, grungers, disco divas, math rockers, art poppers, minimalists, atonalists, etc)
I renounce my nationality. It was an accident of birth and not even my accident
October 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I renounce my nationality. It was an accident of birth and not even my accident
I renounce the football team I supported as a child (who incidentally are winning 4-0 against Athletico Madrid in the Champions League as I type)
October 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I renounce the football team I supported as a child (who incidentally are winning 4-0 against Athletico Madrid in the Champions League as I type)
I renounce my education, including my academic and professional qualifications: degrees, A and O levels, basic Lotus 1-2-3, grade 3 oboe
October 20, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I renounce my education, including my academic and professional qualifications: degrees, A and O levels, basic Lotus 1-2-3, grade 3 oboe
(Alexander Douglas says “Love is the opposite of identity”)
October 19, 2025 at 6:31 AM
(Alexander Douglas says “Love is the opposite of identity”)
I renounce my identity as a heterosexual
October 19, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I renounce my identity as a heterosexual
For a start I renounce my race and “white” ethnicity (both unhelpful social constructs for modern living)
October 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
For a start I renounce my race and “white” ethnicity (both unhelpful social constructs for modern living)
All next week I will be renouncing aspects of my identity
October 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
All next week I will be renouncing aspects of my identity
I dreamed my first golf anxiety dream of repeatedly trying and failing to “tee-off” (technical term). My dream golfing partner (Paul) had green balls. Later, in real life my golfing partner (also Paul) played with a green ball. At one point he thought we’d lost it but he hadn’t. Well played Paul!
October 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I dreamed my first golf anxiety dream of repeatedly trying and failing to “tee-off” (technical term). My dream golfing partner (Paul) had green balls. Later, in real life my golfing partner (also Paul) played with a green ball. At one point he thought we’d lost it but he hadn’t. Well played Paul!
I dreamed about a lovely baby sleeping peacefully on my bed.
October 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I dreamed about a lovely baby sleeping peacefully on my bed.
Dream I attend an acting class and am paired up with Jodie Foster for an exercise in which we are instructed to “giggle like girls”. Jodie is, as you might expect, brilliant, but also a real delight to work with
September 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Dream I attend an acting class and am paired up with Jodie Foster for an exercise in which we are instructed to “giggle like girls”. Jodie is, as you might expect, brilliant, but also a real delight to work with
Exciting news: Substack have been in touch to inform me that 16 people have viewed my post and none of them liked it
September 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Exciting news: Substack have been in touch to inform me that 16 people have viewed my post and none of them liked it
I’ve written a Substack post Henry V Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/craigbax...
Henry V Part 1
Driving around England recently, and witnessing the resurgence of flag-hanging from motorway bridges and lampposts, and the re-facing of mini roundabout hubs in the name of Saint George and Union Jack...
open.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I’ve written a Substack post Henry V Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/craigbax...
Dream I am in Wales and get chatting in the chip shop with someone who turns out to be a holidaying GP. I mention my high blood pressure and he recommends “lying standing” (to manage not necessarily cure it)
September 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Dream I am in Wales and get chatting in the chip shop with someone who turns out to be a holidaying GP. I mention my high blood pressure and he recommends “lying standing” (to manage not necessarily cure it)
I dreamed I git an MA from Cambridge University
September 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I dreamed I git an MA from Cambridge University
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OUT NOW! bulldog-film.com/films/signs-...
September 5, 2025 at 4:26 AM
OUT NOW! bulldog-film.com/films/signs-...
I was complemented on my sadness today
September 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I was complemented on my sadness today
Knows his onions
Great review for Signs Of Life by Mark Kermode (listen at 58.30) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/k...
HONEY, DON’T: a film title that reviews itself? + Sam Riley on ISLANDS
Podcast Episode · Kermode & Mayo’s Take · 04/09/2025 · 1h 5m
podcasts.apple.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Knows his onions