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@deviousmeans.bsky.social
York-based theatre maker/bricoleur/academic. Mystery Plays, medieval theatre, community performance. Makes a mess.
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This orangutan can't be beaten at climbing up a tree. Imagine its skill and poise as our next secretary of education.
November 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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These two make great friends.
Released a day apart, they’re almost twins.
Maybe putting both on reading lists and in libraries might be a good thing to do.
Maybe.
October 8, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
R.I.P. Harrison's translation of the Mysteries remains potent, a reminder of the deep poetic voice of Northern England even now.
"Tony Harrison (30 April 1937 – 26 September 2025) was an English poet, translator and playwright. He was born in Beeston, Leeds and he received his education in Classics from Leeds Grammar School and Leeds University."
R.I.P.
September 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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A poem from this morning.
August 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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A very good interview on the reading crisis in the UK. Heartily endorse bringing back sure start or some version of it.
August 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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golf is a very strange game because basically you're taking a huge amount of land and making it a weirdass obstacle course for a tiny ball. imagine holding a golf ball up to see the ~200 acres you have reshaped and whispering to it "this is for you. this is all for you"
June 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Mystery Plays are well underway in Toronto! Some beautiful moments and expressions... #yorkplays2025
June 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Wander by to check out what’s going on. Stay for one short play or stay for all 18 hours! Come and go as you please.
June 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Check out the listing for full details on the. #free #familyfriendly event!

yorkplays2025.eventbrite.ca
York Plays 2025
Step Into Medieval York: A Spectacular Day of Family-Friendly Theatre!
yorkplays2025.eventbrite.ca
June 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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We roll at dawn! The day has finally come. It’s been 27 years since we mounted the full York Corpus Christi plays in 1998. We lost our original wagons to fire but we have shiny new ones built using new research. #yorkplays2025 #torontoevents #medieval #medievaldrama
June 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Excitement building in Toronto... #yorkplays2025
June 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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🚨 The wait is almost over! 🚨
🎭 June 7 (June 8 if it rains): the full York Cycle is back for the 1st time in 27 years!
🌅 From sunrise "Creation" to midnight "Last Judgment"
🎟️FREE & open to all!
👟 Come for an hour or the whole epic!
🔗 yorkplays.ca
#YorkPlays2025 #FreeEventsTO #MustSeeTO
May 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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WE WON!

The Supreme Court has upheld the right to wild camp on Dartmoor. This is a huge win for access to nature.

But we're just getting started.

It was never just about Dartmoor.

We’re fighting to extend the right to roam, swim, and sleep under the stars - across all of England.
May 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
April 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Feels like a good day to share my favourite Columbus shade, thrown by seventeenth-century wife guy the Duke of Newcastle in a poem written for his wife - Margaret Cavendish - and her incredible work The Blazing World

"That Columbus guy just stumbled upon a continued but you MADE a WORLD, babe"
April 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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If you'd like to write to the Prime Minister's office about the Supreme Court ruling, you can do so here - contact.no10.gov.uk - 1000 character limit. I have just done so!
Contact Number 10 GOV.UK - The best place to find government services and information
contact.no10.gov.uk
April 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Since we are back at work in the UK today - it's a GREAT time to email your MP about the Supreme Court ruling and the threats to trans people as a result. I used this helpful guide to write to my MP. You should too.
www.translegalproject.org/post/urgent-...
URGENT ACTION: Write to your MP to protest the Supreme Court ruling and the EHRC's proposals to impose draconian bans on trans people from single-sex spaces.
The trans community is facing a major crisis in the UK after the Supreme Court ruled last week that for the purposes of The Equality Act 2010 sex should be classified as biological (i.e. as recorded a...
www.translegalproject.org
April 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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I worked on an open letter with some fab playwrights in support of the trans community in the wake of the UK Supreme Court ruling last week. We have a whopping 1426 signatures and counting. If you're a UK-based writer & you'd like to add your name, click here:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
April 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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I doubt that I would have given this missive from Pope Francis my attention were it not for a steer from @bcdreyer.social, but I really can’t recommend it enough.
www.vatican.va/content/fran...
Letter of the Holy Father on the Role of Literature in Formation (17 July 2024) | Francis
Letter of His Holiness Pope Francis on the Role of Literature in Formation, 17 July 2024
www.vatican.va
April 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I wrote to my MP a few days ago on similar (if less eloquent) lines; will have to send a further one here, clearly.
I have just sent the attached to the Chair of the EHRC, cc'ing my MP. Please feel free to use these arguments (put into your own words - there is little value in template or identical letters as they are all treated essentially as bulk correspondence) to help shape your own complaints, if helpful.
April 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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An important reminder as the Supreme Court makes its judgement - not a single trans person was heard from at any point during this case before them, even a trans judge who applied was refused.

This is, as usual, the British state acting as cis people to impose their will on trans people.
April 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM