Lance Woodman
@lancewoodman.bsky.social
Playwright, tour guide, bicycles. UK Midlands.
www.lancewoodman.co.uk
www.lancewoodman.co.uk
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A powerful piece about the lack of criticism in Welsh culture.
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The Village That Forgot How to Argue: Wales and the Crisis of Critique
When a bad review becomes news, it’s not about the art - it’s about a nation that’s mistaken conformity for care.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
A powerful piece about the lack of criticism in Welsh culture.
llinos.substack.com/p/the-villag...
llinos.substack.com/p/the-villag...
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This weeks post is from the brilliant @deldridgewriter.bsky.social 💓
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An Honest Day In The Life Of A Writer #34
David Eldridge
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November 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This weeks post is from the brilliant @deldridgewriter.bsky.social 💓
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Wise advice www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
November 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Wise advice www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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"There is more realness in Dennis Potter’s weirdness than in the majority of overwrought series striving for authenticity" An excellent @thequietus.com long read by Darran Anderson on one of the greatest writers ever to work in television
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
How Dennis Potter's TV Plays Were Guides to the Purgatory of the Modern Age | The Quietus
Darran Anderson gets to grips with the brilliant body of work created by revolutionary television playwright Dennis Potter
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November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
"There is more realness in Dennis Potter’s weirdness than in the majority of overwrought series striving for authenticity" An excellent @thequietus.com long read by Darran Anderson on one of the greatest writers ever to work in television
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
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Questions about playwriting and theatre? Talk to us! Join us in the #PapatangoStudio for free 1-2-1 online chats between 3.30pm and 5.30pm on Thursday 13 November.
Log in here: 👉https://papatango.co.uk/studio/
#Theatre #Playwriting #Playwrights #TheatreCommunity
Log in here: 👉https://papatango.co.uk/studio/
#Theatre #Playwriting #Playwrights #TheatreCommunity
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Questions about playwriting and theatre? Talk to us! Join us in the #PapatangoStudio for free 1-2-1 online chats between 3.30pm and 5.30pm on Thursday 13 November.
Log in here: 👉https://papatango.co.uk/studio/
#Theatre #Playwriting #Playwrights #TheatreCommunity
Log in here: 👉https://papatango.co.uk/studio/
#Theatre #Playwriting #Playwrights #TheatreCommunity
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MISS PYM’s DAY OUT, on the iPlayer for the next 26 days, is delightful!
A drama doc about Barbara Pym’s trip to London for the Booker Prize ceremony - featuring Patricia Routledge as Pym, various Excellent Women and cameos from Jilly Cooper & Penelope Lively! #BookSky
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
A drama doc about Barbara Pym’s trip to London for the Booker Prize ceremony - featuring Patricia Routledge as Pym, various Excellent Women and cameos from Jilly Cooper & Penelope Lively! #BookSky
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Miss Pym's Day Out: Bookmark
Dramatised documentary about the writer Barbara Pym, depicting one day in her life - 23 November 1977 - when she travelled to London to attend the Booker Prize ceremony.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
MISS PYM’s DAY OUT, on the iPlayer for the next 26 days, is delightful!
A drama doc about Barbara Pym’s trip to London for the Booker Prize ceremony - featuring Patricia Routledge as Pym, various Excellent Women and cameos from Jilly Cooper & Penelope Lively! #BookSky
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
A drama doc about Barbara Pym’s trip to London for the Booker Prize ceremony - featuring Patricia Routledge as Pym, various Excellent Women and cameos from Jilly Cooper & Penelope Lively! #BookSky
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Trying to avoid the metaphors. Everything is going well - honest
November 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Trying to avoid the metaphors. Everything is going well - honest
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Norah's Ark: the play. Research interviews getting testy.
October 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Norah's Ark: the play. Research interviews getting testy.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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We're looking for actors and people who would like to have a go at acting for our 2026 show. You'll be 18+ and from Stratford upon Avon and the surrounding area. Full application details available from www.guildchapel.co.uk/norahs-ark-n... #stratforduponavon
October 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
We're looking for actors and people who would like to have a go at acting for our 2026 show. You'll be 18+ and from Stratford upon Avon and the surrounding area. Full application details available from www.guildchapel.co.uk/norahs-ark-n... #stratforduponavon
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🚨 NEW!🚨
Free to stream, another three-hour exploration of the sounds of the year 2000, this time focussed on sampling, mashup and DJ culture as well as the US election. I feel like this is a particularly good one, so come have a listen!
centuriesofsound.com/2025/10/20/2...
Free to stream, another three-hour exploration of the sounds of the year 2000, this time focussed on sampling, mashup and DJ culture as well as the US election. I feel like this is a particularly good one, so come have a listen!
centuriesofsound.com/2025/10/20/2...
October 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
🚨 NEW!🚨
Free to stream, another three-hour exploration of the sounds of the year 2000, this time focussed on sampling, mashup and DJ culture as well as the US election. I feel like this is a particularly good one, so come have a listen!
centuriesofsound.com/2025/10/20/2...
Free to stream, another three-hour exploration of the sounds of the year 2000, this time focussed on sampling, mashup and DJ culture as well as the US election. I feel like this is a particularly good one, so come have a listen!
centuriesofsound.com/2025/10/20/2...
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Norah's Ark is a play about sea level rise, #ClimateChange and how we will deal with these issues. Playwright @lancewoodman.bsky.social has more information about the play and how you can get involved on his web site:
www.lancewoodman.co.uk/playsdet/nor...
www.lancewoodman.co.uk/playsdet/nor...
Norah's Ark | Lance Woodman
www.lancewoodman.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Norah's Ark is a play about sea level rise, #ClimateChange and how we will deal with these issues. Playwright @lancewoodman.bsky.social has more information about the play and how you can get involved on his web site:
www.lancewoodman.co.uk/playsdet/nor...
www.lancewoodman.co.uk/playsdet/nor...
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Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
#amindofmyown
October 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
#amindofmyown
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If you're teaching playwriting, don't start with monologues. A good monologue is a two-character scene with one of the characters removed.
Thinking that a monologue is easier to write than a two-character scene is like thinking that it's easier to ride a unicycle than a bicycle.
#playwriting
Thinking that a monologue is easier to write than a two-character scene is like thinking that it's easier to ride a unicycle than a bicycle.
#playwriting
September 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
If you're teaching playwriting, don't start with monologues. A good monologue is a two-character scene with one of the characters removed.
Thinking that a monologue is easier to write than a two-character scene is like thinking that it's easier to ride a unicycle than a bicycle.
#playwriting
Thinking that a monologue is easier to write than a two-character scene is like thinking that it's easier to ride a unicycle than a bicycle.
#playwriting
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The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.
That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
August 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.
That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
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Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
August 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
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A new thing wot we're doing.
A resident ensemble of six writers is to be created by the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of a scheme aimed at supporting the selected playwrights to develop new work for the organisation’s stages.
👉 www.thestage.co.uk/news/roy...
👉 www.thestage.co.uk/news/roy...
August 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
A new thing wot we're doing.
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Very few people coming to Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth but I have decided not to worry - I will create different experiments every night- and if there are eight people there , so be it -I will be fully committed
www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...
www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...
Babes in arms policy: Babies are not allowed in the venue
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August 3, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Very few people coming to Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth but I have decided not to worry - I will create different experiments every night- and if there are eight people there , so be it -I will be fully committed
www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...
www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...
Day of the bit off colour #mildhorror
July 31, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Day of the bit off colour #mildhorror
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Also an ex-miner, banned for a year for attempted match fixing, ran a pub and starred in a movie. Someone should make a film about his life.
Born #OTD in 1874 in Chirk: Billy Meredith (cap #161)
Described as the 'football wonder of all time', 'Old Skinny' was selected 60 times to represent Cymru, but club commitments limited him to 48 caps - a Welsh record until 1962. Was 45 when he won his last cap
Instrumental in founding the PFA
Described as the 'football wonder of all time', 'Old Skinny' was selected 60 times to represent Cymru, but club commitments limited him to 48 caps - a Welsh record until 1962. Was 45 when he won his last cap
Instrumental in founding the PFA
July 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Also an ex-miner, banned for a year for attempted match fixing, ran a pub and starred in a movie. Someone should make a film about his life.
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In the Radio Times again this week, thank you Gareth McLean, hope you are enjoying 1950 part 2.
July 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In the Radio Times again this week, thank you Gareth McLean, hope you are enjoying 1950 part 2.
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Please share. We need community now more than ever.
Calling ALL #PLAYWRIGHTS, #SCREENWRITERS and their friends Support Playwrights is holding a SUMMER SOCIAL at Soho Theatre Walthamstow.
Thurs 24th July 7pm-11pm.
Come alone or come with friends. ALL WELCOME.
#SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial
Calling ALL #PLAYWRIGHTS, #SCREENWRITERS and their friends Support Playwrights is holding a SUMMER SOCIAL at Soho Theatre Walthamstow.
Thurs 24th July 7pm-11pm.
Come alone or come with friends. ALL WELCOME.
#SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial
July 17, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Please share. We need community now more than ever.
Calling ALL #PLAYWRIGHTS, #SCREENWRITERS and their friends Support Playwrights is holding a SUMMER SOCIAL at Soho Theatre Walthamstow.
Thurs 24th July 7pm-11pm.
Come alone or come with friends. ALL WELCOME.
#SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial
Calling ALL #PLAYWRIGHTS, #SCREENWRITERS and their friends Support Playwrights is holding a SUMMER SOCIAL at Soho Theatre Walthamstow.
Thurs 24th July 7pm-11pm.
Come alone or come with friends. ALL WELCOME.
#SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial
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Special announcement: 2 Free Workshops at the Fringe!
Aug 9: 10.30am-12pm: Embracing the Fear: A Practical Guide to Navigating Stage Fright with Annika Speer & Bella Merlin
Aug 16: 10.30am-12pm: Stanislavsky's Toolkit: A Practical Workshop for Actors with Bella Merlin
#theatresky #theatre
Aug 9: 10.30am-12pm: Embracing the Fear: A Practical Guide to Navigating Stage Fright with Annika Speer & Bella Merlin
Aug 16: 10.30am-12pm: Stanislavsky's Toolkit: A Practical Workshop for Actors with Bella Merlin
#theatresky #theatre
July 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Special announcement: 2 Free Workshops at the Fringe!
Aug 9: 10.30am-12pm: Embracing the Fear: A Practical Guide to Navigating Stage Fright with Annika Speer & Bella Merlin
Aug 16: 10.30am-12pm: Stanislavsky's Toolkit: A Practical Workshop for Actors with Bella Merlin
#theatresky #theatre
Aug 9: 10.30am-12pm: Embracing the Fear: A Practical Guide to Navigating Stage Fright with Annika Speer & Bella Merlin
Aug 16: 10.30am-12pm: Stanislavsky's Toolkit: A Practical Workshop for Actors with Bella Merlin
#theatresky #theatre