James Wallace
@jameswallace.bsky.social
Sublunary microcosm
Sometime actor, director & researcher, now full-time carer
Rose Playhouse Trustee
You can unfollow me on Twitter @jamesthewallace
Sometime actor, director & researcher, now full-time carer
Rose Playhouse Trustee
You can unfollow me on Twitter @jamesthewallace
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Join us online this Monday evening as Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social – President of the Marlowe Society of America, and former President of the Australian & New Zealand Shakespeare Association – uncovers the connections between ale houses and playhouses in early modern London.
Monday 10 November
@ 7.30pm online
PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES
Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for a ramble around the inns, taverns & ale-houses of Elizabethan London, to discover their role in the emergence of playhouse culture.
Book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
@ 7.30pm online
PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES
Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for a ramble around the inns, taverns & ale-houses of Elizabethan London, to discover their role in the emergence of playhouse culture.
Book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
November 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Join us online this Monday evening as Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social – President of the Marlowe Society of America, and former President of the Australian & New Zealand Shakespeare Association – uncovers the connections between ale houses and playhouses in early modern London.
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Monday 10 November
@ 7.30pm online
PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES
Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for a ramble around the inns, taverns & ale-houses of Elizabethan London, to discover their role in the emergence of playhouse culture.
Book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
@ 7.30pm online
PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES
Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for a ramble around the inns, taverns & ale-houses of Elizabethan London, to discover their role in the emergence of playhouse culture.
Book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Monday 10 November
@ 7.30pm online
PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES
Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for a ramble around the inns, taverns & ale-houses of Elizabethan London, to discover their role in the emergence of playhouse culture.
Book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
@ 7.30pm online
PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES
Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for a ramble around the inns, taverns & ale-houses of Elizabethan London, to discover their role in the emergence of playhouse culture.
Book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
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TONIGHT at 6.30pm online
This should be a fascinating talk, so please do join us if you can!
This should be a fascinating talk, so please do join us if you can!
Monday 27 October, at 6.30pm online
INTRODUCING PHILIP HENSLOWE'S ROSE
Join Professor Grace Ioppolo, @profshakespeare.bsky.social, Founder & Director of the Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project, as she examines the business partnerships that built The Rose.
More info & book: bit.ly/4nMtaBv
INTRODUCING PHILIP HENSLOWE'S ROSE
Join Professor Grace Ioppolo, @profshakespeare.bsky.social, Founder & Director of the Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project, as she examines the business partnerships that built The Rose.
More info & book: bit.ly/4nMtaBv
October 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
TONIGHT at 6.30pm online
This should be a fascinating talk, so please do join us if you can!
This should be a fascinating talk, so please do join us if you can!
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Next Monday, the Page of Plymouth online talks in partnership with The Rose Playhouse continue:
INTRODUCING PHILIP HENSLOWE’S ROSE - with PROFESSOR GRACE IOPPOLO
📅 Monday 27th October 2025 🕡 6.30pm 💻 online
🎫 £5 /£8 Book via The Rose: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
INTRODUCING PHILIP HENSLOWE’S ROSE - with PROFESSOR GRACE IOPPOLO
📅 Monday 27th October 2025 🕡 6.30pm 💻 online
🎫 £5 /£8 Book via The Rose: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
October 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Next Monday, the Page of Plymouth online talks in partnership with The Rose Playhouse continue:
INTRODUCING PHILIP HENSLOWE’S ROSE - with PROFESSOR GRACE IOPPOLO
📅 Monday 27th October 2025 🕡 6.30pm 💻 online
🎫 £5 /£8 Book via The Rose: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
INTRODUCING PHILIP HENSLOWE’S ROSE - with PROFESSOR GRACE IOPPOLO
📅 Monday 27th October 2025 🕡 6.30pm 💻 online
🎫 £5 /£8 Book via The Rose: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
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Monday 27 October, at 6.30pm online
INTRODUCING PHILIP HENSLOWE'S ROSE
Join Professor Grace Ioppolo, @profshakespeare.bsky.social, Founder & Director of the Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project, as she examines the business partnerships that built The Rose.
More info & book: bit.ly/4nMtaBv
INTRODUCING PHILIP HENSLOWE'S ROSE
Join Professor Grace Ioppolo, @profshakespeare.bsky.social, Founder & Director of the Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project, as she examines the business partnerships that built The Rose.
More info & book: bit.ly/4nMtaBv
October 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Monday 27 October, at 6.30pm online
INTRODUCING PHILIP HENSLOWE'S ROSE
Join Professor Grace Ioppolo, @profshakespeare.bsky.social, Founder & Director of the Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project, as she examines the business partnerships that built The Rose.
More info & book: bit.ly/4nMtaBv
INTRODUCING PHILIP HENSLOWE'S ROSE
Join Professor Grace Ioppolo, @profshakespeare.bsky.social, Founder & Director of the Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project, as she examines the business partnerships that built The Rose.
More info & book: bit.ly/4nMtaBv
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Our new season of online talks starts this Monday, 13 Oct
Discover the lost domestic tragedy Page of Plymouth, & the new @literatureworks.bsky.social project centred on it, looking at theatre, culture & narratives of ordinary lives in Plymouth then & now
More info & book: bit.ly/3WvdoyH
[thread]👇
Discover the lost domestic tragedy Page of Plymouth, & the new @literatureworks.bsky.social project centred on it, looking at theatre, culture & narratives of ordinary lives in Plymouth then & now
More info & book: bit.ly/3WvdoyH
[thread]👇
October 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Our new season of online talks starts this Monday, 13 Oct
Discover the lost domestic tragedy Page of Plymouth, & the new @literatureworks.bsky.social project centred on it, looking at theatre, culture & narratives of ordinary lives in Plymouth then & now
More info & book: bit.ly/3WvdoyH
[thread]👇
Discover the lost domestic tragedy Page of Plymouth, & the new @literatureworks.bsky.social project centred on it, looking at theatre, culture & narratives of ordinary lives in Plymouth then & now
More info & book: bit.ly/3WvdoyH
[thread]👇
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This work contains the only known bookplate illustrated by artist & author Mervyn Peake. Designed for a surgeon who operated on his family, in lieu of fees. It depicts the 3 little bones of the middle ear
#books #antiquarian #medicine #bookplate #histmed bit.ly/4pSUgbo
#books #antiquarian #medicine #bookplate #histmed bit.ly/4pSUgbo
October 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
This work contains the only known bookplate illustrated by artist & author Mervyn Peake. Designed for a surgeon who operated on his family, in lieu of fees. It depicts the 3 little bones of the middle ear
#books #antiquarian #medicine #bookplate #histmed bit.ly/4pSUgbo
#books #antiquarian #medicine #bookplate #histmed bit.ly/4pSUgbo
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In Bradford for Widescreen Weekend and staying at the grand but somewhat faded Midland Hotel where, I am perversely delighted to discover, in 1905 Sir Henry Irving breathed his last on this staircase. His manager, Bram Stoker, was in attendance.
September 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
In Bradford for Widescreen Weekend and staying at the grand but somewhat faded Midland Hotel where, I am perversely delighted to discover, in 1905 Sir Henry Irving breathed his last on this staircase. His manager, Bram Stoker, was in attendance.
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“BritCard?”
September 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“BritCard?”
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'And that underlying rhythm probably sounds quite familiar: it’s like a heartbeat. Shakespeare loved iambic pentameter because it sounds very close to natural, heart-felt speech': argh, this kind of thing (from Shakespeare's Globe website) drives me mad: someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/10-reasons...
10 Reasons Why the Iambic Pentameter is Not Like the Human Heartbeat
On an idea about poetry that needs to die
someflowerssoon.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
'And that underlying rhythm probably sounds quite familiar: it’s like a heartbeat. Shakespeare loved iambic pentameter because it sounds very close to natural, heart-felt speech': argh, this kind of thing (from Shakespeare's Globe website) drives me mad: someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/10-reasons...
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Sat 20 Sept, 12noon-8.30pm
THE 8th ROSE READATHON
Our hugely popular fund-raiser returns!
Choose to watch or take part, as we gallop through 1hr versions of six plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe & Jonson.
Roles drawn from a hat & scripts provided.
More info & book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
THE 8th ROSE READATHON
Our hugely popular fund-raiser returns!
Choose to watch or take part, as we gallop through 1hr versions of six plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe & Jonson.
Roles drawn from a hat & scripts provided.
More info & book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
September 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Sat 20 Sept, 12noon-8.30pm
THE 8th ROSE READATHON
Our hugely popular fund-raiser returns!
Choose to watch or take part, as we gallop through 1hr versions of six plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe & Jonson.
Roles drawn from a hat & scripts provided.
More info & book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
THE 8th ROSE READATHON
Our hugely popular fund-raiser returns!
Choose to watch or take part, as we gallop through 1hr versions of six plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe & Jonson.
Roles drawn from a hat & scripts provided.
More info & book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
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Linked to yesterday's OTD post, this is terrific - thanks @jameswallace.bsky.social
Have you seen this?
Cantu (the first magician to make doves appear, apparently) eight years earlier, doing part of his act in Politiquerías, the Spanish version of Laurel and Hardy’s Chickens Come Home (1931).
m.youtube.com/watch?v=qIOD...
Cantu (the first magician to make doves appear, apparently) eight years earlier, doing part of his act in Politiquerías, the Spanish version of Laurel and Hardy’s Chickens Come Home (1931).
m.youtube.com/watch?v=qIOD...
Cantu Magician -Politiquerias- Laurel and Hardy 1931
YouTube video by Christian de MIEGEVILLE
m.youtube.com
August 9, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Linked to yesterday's OTD post, this is terrific - thanks @jameswallace.bsky.social
🎵 Shitler
has only got one ball
Don junior
has two but ve-ry small
Ivanka’s
are two great clankers
But poor old Eric
has no tes-tic-les 🎵
has only got one ball
Don junior
has two but ve-ry small
Ivanka’s
are two great clankers
But poor old Eric
has no tes-tic-les 🎵
needs to build some ballroom
August 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🎵 Shitler
has only got one ball
Don junior
has two but ve-ry small
Ivanka’s
are two great clankers
But poor old Eric
has no tes-tic-les 🎵
has only got one ball
Don junior
has two but ve-ry small
Ivanka’s
are two great clankers
But poor old Eric
has no tes-tic-les 🎵
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The Rose was the first theatre on Bankside, but the very first south of the Thames was built a mile away in Elephant & Castle in the mid-1570s.
Henslowe records receipts for 10 performances there in 1594, just before it closed.
Find out about the Newington Butts Playhouse @reedproject.bsky.social
Henslowe records receipts for 10 performances there in 1594, just before it closed.
Find out about the Newington Butts Playhouse @reedproject.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The Rose was the first theatre on Bankside, but the very first south of the Thames was built a mile away in Elephant & Castle in the mid-1570s.
Henslowe records receipts for 10 performances there in 1594, just before it closed.
Find out about the Newington Butts Playhouse @reedproject.bsky.social
Henslowe records receipts for 10 performances there in 1594, just before it closed.
Find out about the Newington Butts Playhouse @reedproject.bsky.social
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We've replaced the rope-lights outlining The Rose's archaeological remains, currently preserved underwater.
The red lights mark the inner & outer walls of the seating galleries.
The blue lights show the front of the stage in 1587, and then pushed back in 1592/3.
Looking south-north, & east-west.
The red lights mark the inner & outer walls of the seating galleries.
The blue lights show the front of the stage in 1587, and then pushed back in 1592/3.
Looking south-north, & east-west.
July 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
We've replaced the rope-lights outlining The Rose's archaeological remains, currently preserved underwater.
The red lights mark the inner & outer walls of the seating galleries.
The blue lights show the front of the stage in 1587, and then pushed back in 1592/3.
Looking south-north, & east-west.
The red lights mark the inner & outer walls of the seating galleries.
The blue lights show the front of the stage in 1587, and then pushed back in 1592/3.
Looking south-north, & east-west.
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I've found a jester! I HAVE FOUND A JESTER 🥸
July 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I've found a jester! I HAVE FOUND A JESTER 🥸
David Lynch’s personal theramin, recently sold at auction for $10,400
June 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
David Lynch’s personal theramin, recently sold at auction for $10,400
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I have just noticed that the clips holding the glass on this London Transport bus look like Homer Simpson
June 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I have just noticed that the clips holding the glass on this London Transport bus look like Homer Simpson
Wow
HERE. SHE. IS.
Our 'stunning', 'jaw-dropping' & 'game-changing' new venue, Soho Theatre Walthamstow
(thanks @walthamforestecho.bsky.social TimeOut & @whatsonstage.bsky.social 💋)
📷️ David Levene
Our 'stunning', 'jaw-dropping' & 'game-changing' new venue, Soho Theatre Walthamstow
(thanks @walthamforestecho.bsky.social TimeOut & @whatsonstage.bsky.social 💋)
📷️ David Levene
May 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Wow
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Brilliant
April 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Brilliant
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OTD in early British television:
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin was born 136 years ago today. To mark his 50th birthday on Sunday 16 April 1939, Alexandra Palace screened an afternoon programme of extracts from his early comedies.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin was born 136 years ago today. To mark his 50th birthday on Sunday 16 April 1939, Alexandra Palace screened an afternoon programme of extracts from his early comedies.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
OTD in early British television: 16 April 1939 - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin was born 136 years ago today. To mark his 50th birthday on Sunday 16 April 1939, when Charlie was working on the script for The Great Dictator (1940), Al...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
April 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
OTD in early British television:
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin was born 136 years ago today. To mark his 50th birthday on Sunday 16 April 1939, Alexandra Palace screened an afternoon programme of extracts from his early comedies.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin was born 136 years ago today. To mark his 50th birthday on Sunday 16 April 1939, Alexandra Palace screened an afternoon programme of extracts from his early comedies.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
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