Katherine Mendelsohn
@katherinemend.bsky.social
Theatre dramaturg and stage-play translator (french-english). Mum. Word-lover. Reader.
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IN LIEU OF FLOWERS by Shawna Lemay
November 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS by Shawna Lemay
@sarasheridan.bsky.social I meant to tell you sooner (there’s been a lot of LIFE things, sorry) but I read The Fair Botanists during our son’s October week (in the sun by the pomegranate trees below) and absolutely loved it. Edinburgh history and suffragette-seeds writ large and beautifully. 👏👏👏👏👏💐🫶
November 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
@sarasheridan.bsky.social I meant to tell you sooner (there’s been a lot of LIFE things, sorry) but I read The Fair Botanists during our son’s October week (in the sun by the pomegranate trees below) and absolutely loved it. Edinburgh history and suffragette-seeds writ large and beautifully. 👏👏👏👏👏💐🫶
Fantastic seeing Ramallah-based Penny Johnson and Raja Shehadeh taking part in #AyeWrite #Glasgow just now, talking about their brilliant book #Forgotten: Exploring Palestine's Hidden Memorials and Lost Histories
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Fantastic seeing Ramallah-based Penny Johnson and Raja Shehadeh taking part in #AyeWrite #Glasgow just now, talking about their brilliant book #Forgotten: Exploring Palestine's Hidden Memorials and Lost Histories
Thank you Artcena, Institut Francais London, & @sacdparis.bsky.social - for making over 20 years of theatre translations of contemporary Francophone plays into English possible. So proud to see extracts of 2 of my recent translations, LUNE and LEVIATHAN, in there.
🎉 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
🎉 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Thank you Artcena, Institut Francais London, & @sacdparis.bsky.social - for making over 20 years of theatre translations of contemporary Francophone plays into English possible. So proud to see extracts of 2 of my recent translations, LUNE and LEVIATHAN, in there.
🎉 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
🎉 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Long ago I got Enda to lead a public playwriting w/shop @traversetheatre.bsky.social - he insisted I ran it with him & picked an image of Le Corbusier's zone d'habitation as a prompt for the writers to write lives in one (or several) of the flats. ARLINGTON felt the beautiful dark flip side of this.
October 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Long ago I got Enda to lead a public playwriting w/shop @traversetheatre.bsky.social - he insisted I ran it with him & picked an image of Le Corbusier's zone d'habitation as a prompt for the writers to write lives in one (or several) of the flats. ARLINGTON felt the beautiful dark flip side of this.
Still revelling in The Divine Comedy at Glasgow Concert Hall yesterday night. #Magnificent
(Last saw them live at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh in 2004.)
(Last saw them live at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh in 2004.)
October 21, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Still revelling in The Divine Comedy at Glasgow Concert Hall yesterday night. #Magnificent
(Last saw them live at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh in 2004.)
(Last saw them live at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh in 2004.)
Important - #GlobalSumudFlotilla #SumudFlotilla @freedomflotilla.bsky.social @aljazeera.com
Screenshot from another site, but worth it!
Screenshot from another site, but worth it!
October 2, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Important - #GlobalSumudFlotilla #SumudFlotilla @freedomflotilla.bsky.social @aljazeera.com
Screenshot from another site, but worth it!
Screenshot from another site, but worth it!
#GlasgowSeptemberWeekend Sunday in Troon
September 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
#GlasgowSeptemberWeekend Sunday in Troon
many diplomats walked out of UN general assembly hall as #Netanyahu took the stage.
#Palestine 🌿🇸🇩
Photo from @bbcnews.bsky.social live feed.
#Palestine 🌿🇸🇩
Photo from @bbcnews.bsky.social live feed.
September 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
many diplomats walked out of UN general assembly hall as #Netanyahu took the stage.
#Palestine 🌿🇸🇩
Photo from @bbcnews.bsky.social live feed.
#Palestine 🌿🇸🇩
Photo from @bbcnews.bsky.social live feed.
A watercolour by a talented old school-friend. Love her use of Pina Bausch’s quote “es ist ja alles erst einmal nichts...es beginnt ganz klein und wird dan grosser” ✨
September 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
A watercolour by a talented old school-friend. Love her use of Pina Bausch’s quote “es ist ja alles erst einmal nichts...es beginnt ganz klein und wird dan grosser” ✨
I don’t know this child, but I know they deserve to live in safety & with dignity. Mayan is one of the 2.38 million Palestinian children who have the right to a future.
Please sign up at letchildrenlive.com & share their name on social media to make sure every child is represented.
#letchildrenlive
Please sign up at letchildrenlive.com & share their name on social media to make sure every child is represented.
#letchildrenlive
September 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I don’t know this child, but I know they deserve to live in safety & with dignity. Mayan is one of the 2.38 million Palestinian children who have the right to a future.
Please sign up at letchildrenlive.com & share their name on social media to make sure every child is represented.
#letchildrenlive
Please sign up at letchildrenlive.com & share their name on social media to make sure every child is represented.
#letchildrenlive
September 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
September haiku…autumn rain
September 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
September haiku…autumn rain
I know the Edinburgh Festival is always a bit of a bubble.
But oh for the guts of dancer Danni Perry 🔥💥🇸🇩
@royaloperahouse.bsky.social
Wins my personal ‘Freedom of Expression’ and ‘Risk Taking above career concerns’ awards for 2025.
#UseYourCurtainCalls
#PoliticalArtist #Gaza
But oh for the guts of dancer Danni Perry 🔥💥🇸🇩
@royaloperahouse.bsky.social
Wins my personal ‘Freedom of Expression’ and ‘Risk Taking above career concerns’ awards for 2025.
#UseYourCurtainCalls
#PoliticalArtist #Gaza
August 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I know the Edinburgh Festival is always a bit of a bubble.
But oh for the guts of dancer Danni Perry 🔥💥🇸🇩
@royaloperahouse.bsky.social
Wins my personal ‘Freedom of Expression’ and ‘Risk Taking above career concerns’ awards for 2025.
#UseYourCurtainCalls
#PoliticalArtist #Gaza
But oh for the guts of dancer Danni Perry 🔥💥🇸🇩
@royaloperahouse.bsky.social
Wins my personal ‘Freedom of Expression’ and ‘Risk Taking above career concerns’ awards for 2025.
#UseYourCurtainCalls
#PoliticalArtist #Gaza
RIP Robert Wilson, visceral brilliant influence on my theatrical life.
Seeing Wilson’s production of Gertrude Stein’s DR FAUSTUS LIGHTS THE LIGHTS
@edintfest.bsky.social in 1993 (
@lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social )
) was the most electrifying theatre I’ve ever seen.
To this day it remains so.
Seeing Wilson’s production of Gertrude Stein’s DR FAUSTUS LIGHTS THE LIGHTS
@edintfest.bsky.social in 1993 (
@lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social )
) was the most electrifying theatre I’ve ever seen.
To this day it remains so.
July 31, 2025 at 9:22 PM
RIP Robert Wilson, visceral brilliant influence on my theatrical life.
Seeing Wilson’s production of Gertrude Stein’s DR FAUSTUS LIGHTS THE LIGHTS
@edintfest.bsky.social in 1993 (
@lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social )
) was the most electrifying theatre I’ve ever seen.
To this day it remains so.
Seeing Wilson’s production of Gertrude Stein’s DR FAUSTUS LIGHTS THE LIGHTS
@edintfest.bsky.social in 1993 (
@lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social )
) was the most electrifying theatre I’ve ever seen.
To this day it remains so.
Happy happy to my OH
July 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Happy happy to my OH
July 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Just been on holiday in northern Italy, and in verona went to A museum where I discovered this atypical de Chirico. Beautiful. We could hang it in the brutalist house (on loan) 🤷♀️🤗
July 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Just been on holiday in northern Italy, and in verona went to A museum where I discovered this atypical de Chirico. Beautiful. We could hang it in the brutalist house (on loan) 🤷♀️🤗
Never forgotten seeing this @edintfest.bsky.social in 1996. Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal staging Gluck’s IPHIGENIA AUF TAURIS. The singers in the audience boxes (and chorus in the orchestra pit) as we watched the dancers interpreting those roles on stage. Mindblowingly brilliant.
July 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Never forgotten seeing this @edintfest.bsky.social in 1996. Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal staging Gluck’s IPHIGENIA AUF TAURIS. The singers in the audience boxes (and chorus in the orchestra pit) as we watched the dancers interpreting those roles on stage. Mindblowingly brilliant.