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Darren Ross
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Wearsider in London. Insurtech developer by day, writer by night. Also @dazzaross on Mastodon and Pixelfed.

Some of my work: https://linktr.ee/dazzaross

Recommend 'The Hour of Absinthe': https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-hour-of-absinthe/nina-s-studer
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Enjoyed watching the latest Live From Soho podcast at the lovely Underbelly Boulevard this evening. James Bierman of Empire Street Productions interviewing the fabulous Marianne Elliott. The North East's Robert Icke up for the next episode.

#LondonTheatre #Theatre #TheatreSky #WestEnd #Podcast
Stage with two chairs in near darkness, with red-lit background and red neon sign saying LIVE FROM SOHO in front.
November 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Seen at Shoreditch Grind.

#London #StrangerThings
Cinema-hoarding-like cafe frontage saying 'SHOREDITCH GRIND. NOT A GOOD TIME TO BE ON THE STRANGER THINGS PR TEAM'.
November 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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A traditional, northern England Hallowe'en - turnip lantern, candles and reading ghost stories.

#Halloween #Samhain
Carved turnip lantern glowing against black background.
October 31, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Filming v film.

How the scene from The Running Man looked while Edgar Wright was shooting it and how it looks in the latest trailer.

The Barbican - standing in for dystopian futures since the 1970s.

#RunningManMovie #StephenKing
Bridge over a road. Below, gates flanked by fluorescent green panels with three actors in front of them. Various cameras set up for filming. Day. Screenshot from The Running Man trailer. Rear view of man approaching gates under a bridge, flanked by black-armoured security guards. A forbidding cityscape surrounds.
October 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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What are the odds? Roadworks and water leak create little canal in front of house where painter called Little Canal lived.

#ArtHistory #Canaletto #London #Soho #UrbanPhotography
Day. View down street with red barriers along pavement. Centre of road has shallow trench dug in the middle and is filled with water. Romanesque, circular, blue plaque and words stating that Canaletto lived in the house on which it is placed.
October 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Invaders spotted in Soho.

#Invader #London #Soho #StreetArt
Brown, fawn and grey Invader mosaic in bricked up window. Sign for Lexington Street to the left. Day. Two halves of white space invader on either side of a tall window on brick building. Three Invader artworks on side of building - mosaic of Damien Hirst's ink spots, two white invaders above one another on black mosaic, black and white mosaic face. Sign for Lexington Street to the left. Day. Invader artwork of three invaders, jade on black, above blue and red mosaic of roses on side of building. Security camera top left.
October 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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A very friendly robin spotted in the Barbican Wildlife Garden (@barbicanwildlife.bsky.social).

#Birds #London #Nature
Close-up of robin redbreast standing on a log.
September 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Seen in Soho.

#London #StreetArt
Olive door with upper and lower panels, onto which is painted a peacock dressed in a blue robe.
September 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Enjoyed the mini exhibition, Rearview Mirror: Liverpool–London–Paris, at the Gagosian gallery in London, a series of photos and contact sheets taken by Paul McCartney just before The Beatles went global. Catch it before it closes.

#Gagosian #PaulMcCartney #Photography #TheBeatles
Large, plate glass window looking in on a white gallery space. On the window at the bottom are the words Paul McCartney. Rearview Mirror. London - London - Paris.
September 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Hugely enjoyed #AMidsummerNightsDream For One Night Only at Shakespeare's Globe. Terrific atmosphere despite downpours soaking the groundlings. Very funny with an unbelievably talented cast. Every play should have @sarahfinigan.bsky.social as the onstage prompt.

#London #Shakespeare #TheatreSky
Side view of Elizabethan covered stage within circular timbered theatre. Lights shining on stage as cast take their bows. Night.
September 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Yarnbomb at the covered market in Oxford. Shop small!

#Craftivism #Oxford #ShopSmall #StreetArt #UrbanArt #Yarnbombing
Red postbox with red, knitted cover on top, atop of which is a knitted pigeon holding a sign that says 'SHOP SMALL'.
September 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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The Eagle and Child pub undergoing major refurbishment. Hopefully it will soon be open again.

#CSLewis #Oxford #Tolkien
Scaffolding awning with a hand-pencilled drawing of an old pub upon it, with the words The Eagle and Child.
September 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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The fan-vaulted cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral.

#Architecture #Christian #HarryPotter #History
A view down a cloister. Walls of white stone. Ceiling of white stone and with intricate fan vaulting.
August 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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#BornWithTeeth preview at the Wyndhams tonight. Central premise fails to convince but it's witty, intelligent, irreverent, insightful & well-staged, with superb performances from Ncuti Gatwa & Edward Bluemel. A great evening out. Highly recommended.

#London #RoyalShakespeareCompany #TheatreSky
Illuminated hoarding for Born With Teeth showing two lead actors above illuminated sign for same. Night.
August 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Quire carving in Gloucester Cathedral.

#Art #Christian #WoodCarving
Carved wooden angel looks up towards quire lights. Black background.
August 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Final performance of #MrsWarrensProfession at the Garrick Theatre. Pitch-perfect performances and an intelligent, sophisticated play that dives into issues of gender, capitalism, power, hypocrisy and relationships. And funny. Great stuff.

#London #MrsWarrenPlay #TheatreSky #WestEnd
Photo of GARRICK in illuminated, white block capitals top with illuminated poster below, showing Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter. Night.
August 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Street art, Worcester.

#StreetArt
Four electrical junction boxes in street painted with two adult swans left and right, and two cygnets painted on the smaller ones, centre.
August 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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A Man For All Seasons at the Harold Pinter Theatre tonight. Good to see that one of the best plays of the 20th century works as well on the stage as on the page. Good performances all round, led by Martin Shaw and Gary Wilmot. Strongly recommended.

#Culture #London #TheatreSky
Front of Harold Pinter Theatre at night with two illuminated hoardings advertising A Man For All Seasons.
August 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Enjoyed A Role To Die For on Tuesday, followed by an intelligent and interesting post-show Q&A with @terripaddock.bsky.social. A fun evening out with plenty of laughs, and our first visit to the Marylebone Theatre. Recommended.

#Culture #London #TheatreSky
Four people seated on a stage, talking, with a wood-panelled stage set behind them.
July 31, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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1st preview of Goodnight, Oscar at Barbican Centre tonight. Thin plot with no real thesis, but a hugely enjoyable evening with good performances, lots of very funny jokes from Sean Hayes, & good staging. Rosalie Craig is flawless. Hugely recommended.

#GoodNightOscar #London #TheatreSky
Large foyer of Barbican Centre, with brutalist architecture. Square, illuminated concrete blocks above, with two big posters for Goodnight, Oscar on the concrete and glass sides.
July 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Final performance of The Fifth Step at Soho Place. Kept veering away from its premise, and while there was a story there was barely a plot. Nevertheless, it was very funny, with two good performances from Jack Lowden & Martin Freeman, both with superb comic timing.

#London #TheFifthStep #TheatreSky
Illuminated screen showing an advert for The Fifth Step, with Martin Freeman and Jack Lowden looking upwards. It sits on a glass and steel building above a digital, blue hoarding for theatre @ sohoplace. Evening.
July 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Spotted a portrait of Sir Ian McKellen in Soho this week, adapted from a photo taken while he was playing Mother Goose.

#London #PrideMonth #StreetArt #TheatreSky
Spray-painted portrait of Ian McKellen in pantomime makeup, with MOTHER GOOSE in heavy-metal type font below.
July 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Giant at the Harold Pinter Theatre tonight. Could hardly be more relevant. Very funny. Compels the audience to think. What a cracking cast! John Lithgow, Aya Cash, Elliot Levey, Tessa Bonham Jones, Richard Hope, and extra applause for @betheyre.bsky.social. See it, quick!

#GiantThePlay #TheatreSky
Front of theatre with illuminated hoarding and illuminated poster for Giant. Evening.
July 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Poor Clare matinée at @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social. Brilliantly funny, relevant & subversive, exploring a serious, Christian, anti-capitalist thesis. Super cast. Arsema Thomas excellent. Freddy Carter & Anushka Chakravarti a joy to watch. See it!

#Bridgerton #Culture #ShadowAndBone #TheatreSky
Brick wall with OT in big red capitals left, poster for Poor Clare depicting two lead actors in a stained-glass idiom right.
July 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Attended the preview screening of Bookish at the BFI this week. It's unoriginal, the premise doesn't work and there's a lot of exposition, but it's likeable, entertaining, looks great and Buket Kömür is quirkily wonderful.
Cast and production members of Bookish seated on stage, with a screen behind them showing Mark Gatiss in a period suit reading a book, standing within a maze made up of books.
July 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM