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🍷Gemma Webb🍷
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Theatre, writing, cats, books, double entendres, double gins & moderately geeky tendencies
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Gene Hackman rewatch continued tonite with The French Connection. Nerve-jangling car chase, grotty NYC, and GH on excellent rumpled, raging form 🖤
Gene Hackman as Popeye Doyle in The French Connection, wearing trademark pork pie hat and trademark frown, giving a wave
March 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Rewatched The Royal Tenenbaums tonight. Top form Gene, stealing every scene. Unique & irreplaceable 🖤
Gene Hackman as Royal Tenenbaum in a go-kart, grinning and having the time of his life, while wearing a suit, heavy-rim glasses and a backwards flat cap (him, not the go-kart)
March 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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A theatre double this weekend!
‘Inside No. 9: Stage/Fright‘, chilling, thrilling and frightfully funny 👻. Genius level entertainment from Mr Pemberton and Mr Sheersmith 🖤
And ‘Churchill in Moscow’ aka ‘When Winston Met Josef’ - a timely dive into diplomacy, leadership and foiling fascism
Theatre programmes for Inside No 9: Stage/Fright and Churchill in Moscow. There is a hare on the Inside No 9 programme, and very little hair on Roger Allam, hidden by the classic Churchillian homberg hat
March 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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“Absolute shower”
The infamous bounder, Terry-Thomas, with his inimitable gap-tooth grin, cigarette holder, and “absolute shower” expression (in black and white)
February 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery
Mizen Head Bridge in southwest Ireland - an elegant white concrete arch spanning a dramatically shadowed rocky gap to the signal station, contrasting with vividly green grass and bright blue sky
January 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Post something orange 🧡
Close up on floofy orange cat’s head, showing off his resplendent white whiskers and cute pink nose
January 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Essential Christmas ritual carried out today: my annual double bill of ‘Victoria Wood With All The Trimmings’ & ‘While You Were Sleeping’
❤️🎄💚🎄❤️🎄💚
#perfectChristmasviewing
Victoria Wood With All The Trimmings promo image, with blonde bobbed VW beaming, with a blue background covered in sparkles Promo image for While You Were Sleeping, showing Sandra Bullock clinging adoringly to Bill Pullman. Well, who wouldn’t?!
December 22, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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For me, Kiss Me Kate was #BestMusical this year – it delivered the complete package: memorable songs, stunning choreography and feelgood fun from the incredible, funny, insanely talented cast. I saw it twice and left buzzing both times! Wunderbar!
Me standing in front of a Kiss Me Kate poster and blocking Stephanie J Block, so it looks like I am co-starring with Adrian Dunbar instead. Mother of God!
December 20, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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Really enjoyed #Conclave last night! Very classy, beautifully filmed, with top notch performances from the lads and scene-stealing, superb Isabella Rossellini. Surprisingly funny too!
Cardinal Biggles, Cardinal Richelieu and Cardinal Fang from the Monty Python’s Flying Circus Spanish Inquisition sketch, resplendent in their red robes
December 4, 2024 at 9:06 AM
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Had a joyful time celebrating the life of the much-missed Neil Innes last night, with an abundance of musical and comic talent from the past 50+ years paying tribute, sharing memories and love. So long, Urban Spaceman 🩷
Promo poster for ‘A Celebration of the Life of Neil Innes’ featuring Neil with a giant yellow rubber duck on his head. Stage filled with dozens of musicians and comedians at the finale of the Neil Innes celebration concert
November 29, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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Still in recovery from the devastating yet outstanding Oedipus from Robert Icke & co. Even though @vickybookerlit.bsky.social and I knew what was going to happen we were still utterly banjaxed 😱. Exceptional performances from Mark Strong and Lesley Manville 👏
#lovetheatre 🎭💕
#loveeyeballs 👀
Photo of theatre programme for Robert Icke’s Oedipus, showing Mark Strong as Oedipus in smart suited modern politician mode, holding a baby aloft, with Lesley Manville as Jocasta looking over his shoulder from behind, and a crowd carrying Oedipus campaign posters in the background.
November 25, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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Saw the highly entertaining The Cabinet Minister at the Menier Chocolate Factory yesterday and very much enjoyed the double entendres and silliness. It would’ve been hard not to! #fnar
Excellent adaptation by multi-talented Nancy Carroll 🎭💕
Gemma standing to the side of a big poster for The Cabinet Minister. Her red scarf matches the background of the poster which shows a 19thC politician having a tantrum with a giant newspaper
November 17, 2024 at 11:32 PM
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At the BFI last night, celebrating the imminent launch of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band’s “Still Barking” limited edition 20 DISC definitive box set!
Music, art and anarchy collide to create joy, mischief and explosions💥!
Standing ovation for the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band at the BFI Promotional postcard showing the Bonzos in their late 1960s’ pomp - there is much facial hair and big collars Promotional postcard for Still Barking box set - available here: https://burningshed.com/store/madfish/related-stores-madfish/bonzo-dog-doo-dah-band
November 15, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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If you see this post, repost with your cat(s)

Pip on a catnip comedown
A floofy ginger cat sitting on sofa cushions, looking sleepy and spaced out
November 15, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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How dare you, I’m not *that* old!
An excellent afternoon exploring the hitherto unheard lives of medieval women of all sorts of backgrounds and experiences at the British Library’s new ‘Medieval Women: In Their Own Words’ exhibition. Truly eye-opening! 👀
Gemma in front of a wall display for the British Library’s Medieval Women: In Their Own Words exhibition
November 10, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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Anyone for a cup of tay? Juno and the Paycock last night. Mark Rylance being as un-Thomas Cromwell as it is possible to be & Geri from Succession! Jaysus!
November 10, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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This was hot on the heels of seeing Michael Palin at Cadogan Hall talk about his new diaries last week… What a one-woman comedy legend appreciation society I am!
October 25, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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Had a great time having my brain dipped in joy last night, listening to Yvonne Innes and Ade Edmondson chat about the great Neil Innes and all things Bonzos, Rutles and music-related. What a lovely, funny, talented gentle soul Neil was 💕
Book cover for Dip My Brain in Joy, the official biography of Neil Innes by Yvonne Innes Yvonne Innes and Ade Edmondson on stage talking about Neil Innes
October 25, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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Another fab trip to Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre for Fiddler on the Roof!
Brilliant performances, imaginative staging & terrific musicians 🎶🎭💕
#lovetheatre
September 8, 2024 at 10:43 AM
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Who wouldn’t want to see a Pythonic nude Terry Jones statue on Colwyn Bay prom?? Donate today!!

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September 5, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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It took nearly four hours waiting in the queue to book #InsideNo9 Stage/Fright last night but it was worth every nail-biting minute! 😅
Prepare yourself @vickybookerlit.bsky.social !!!
May 9, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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#ThrowbackTheatre to Henry IVs I’ve seen - with the following Falstaffs & Hals:

🎭 Michael Gambon/Matthew Macfadyen, National Theatre, 2005

🎭 Roger Allam/Jamie Parker
Shakespeare’s Globe, 2010

🎭 Ian McKellen/Toheeb Jimoh, Noel Coward Theatre, 2024
April 14, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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Mistress Quickly and Doll Tearsheet quaffing some sack before the excellent Player Kings with Sir Ian McKellen as Falstaff - a great time had by all!
#hic #lovetheatre 🎭💕
#playerkingstheplay
April 14, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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Midweek matinee mischief with A Mirror at Trafalgar Theatre - a meta-mindboggling milieu, interrogating censorship, the state and truth 🤯! Superb performances all round, putting the audience on the spot too 😱! And very funny despite dark subject matter. No really…!!! Honestly!
April 3, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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🎶I’m ‘Enery the Eighth, I am!🎶
(I’m not really)
Dressing up larks at the amazing time-bending @ElthamPalace 😍
Brilliant day out - highly recommended 👍
April 2, 2024 at 10:02 PM