Lucy C M M Jackson
@lucycmmjackson.bsky.social
Academic and theatre fan. Living in Newcastle, working in Durham, Londoner for life.
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Hit and myth: Bacchae brings into view the National’s history of revamping Greek tragedies | Theatre | The Guardian
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Hit and myth: Bacchae brings into view the National’s history of revamping Greek tragedies
Following in the footsteps of Peter Hall and Katie Mitchell, Indhu Rubasingham directs an ancient epic at the National Theatre. Bacchae reveals the virtues and vices of creating a new play from old
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September 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Hit and myth: Bacchae brings into view the National’s history of revamping Greek tragedies | Theatre | The Guardian
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Dr Lucy Jackson (@lucycmmjackson.bsky.social) writes about the new exhibition "The Greeks: Radical Reinvention" at the National Theatre which she worked on with the Head of Archive at the National Theatre, Erin Lee:
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The Greeks: Radical Reinvention
Written by Dr Lucy Jackson, Associate Professor in Ancient Greek Literature, Durham University. This month sees the launch of a new exhibition – ‘The Greeks: Radical Reinvention’ – which Erin Lee …
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September 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Dr Lucy Jackson (@lucycmmjackson.bsky.social) writes about the new exhibition "The Greeks: Radical Reinvention" at the National Theatre which she worked on with the Head of Archive at the National Theatre, Erin Lee:
classicalreception.org?p=3903&previ...
classicalreception.org?p=3903&previ...
“Eurovision has never been about politics, says BBC boss Tim Davie”
**Screams in Riverdance**
**Screams in Riverdance**
September 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
“Eurovision has never been about politics, says BBC boss Tim Davie”
**Screams in Riverdance**
**Screams in Riverdance**
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🎭 Congratulations to Dr Lucy Jackson, whose exhibition '‘The Greeks: Radical Reinvention’ has opened at the National Theatre’s Wolfson Gallery!
👉 The exhibition tells the story of how the NT has reimagined Greek drama across six decades
📅 Open until early spring
🔗 buff.ly/dWh0FLz
👉 The exhibition tells the story of how the NT has reimagined Greek drama across six decades
📅 Open until early spring
🔗 buff.ly/dWh0FLz
September 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🎭 Congratulations to Dr Lucy Jackson, whose exhibition '‘The Greeks: Radical Reinvention’ has opened at the National Theatre’s Wolfson Gallery!
👉 The exhibition tells the story of how the NT has reimagined Greek drama across six decades
📅 Open until early spring
🔗 buff.ly/dWh0FLz
👉 The exhibition tells the story of how the NT has reimagined Greek drama across six decades
📅 Open until early spring
🔗 buff.ly/dWh0FLz
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Gary Owen’s unforgettable ‘Iphigenia in Splott’ is released as a Student Edition this month from @methuendrama.bsky.social, with a fascinating intro by @lucycmmjackson.bsky.social. It’s extra special to have this play - a blistering aria against austerity on a mythic scale - as part of the series.
September 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Gary Owen’s unforgettable ‘Iphigenia in Splott’ is released as a Student Edition this month from @methuendrama.bsky.social, with a fascinating intro by @lucycmmjackson.bsky.social. It’s extra special to have this play - a blistering aria against austerity on a mythic scale - as part of the series.
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If you're in Los Angeles, get thee to the Troubies at the Getty!
If I could move any group to Broadway, it would be a Troubie show.
#theatresky
If I could move any group to Broadway, it would be a Troubie show.
#theatresky
Oedipus is entering his Elvis era. 🎙️✨
What happens when you take Sophocles’s most famous tragedy & mash it up with Elvis Presley hits, complete with a live band & sequined jumpsuits? 🎸🕺
What happens when you take Sophocles’s most famous tragedy & mash it up with Elvis Presley hits, complete with a live band & sequined jumpsuits? 🎸🕺
September 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
If you're in Los Angeles, get thee to the Troubies at the Getty!
If I could move any group to Broadway, it would be a Troubie show.
#theatresky
If I could move any group to Broadway, it would be a Troubie show.
#theatresky
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Now up on the CRSN site! Antonio Papapicco and Valeria Spacciante - the organisers of the CRSN/ICS 2025 Summer Series - reflect on the theme of ancient violence and its reception in the modern world. Read more here:
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Modern Reflections on Ancient Violence – 2025 CRSN Summer Series
We, Antonio Papapicco (Scuola Normale Superiore) and Valeria Spacciante (Columbia University) are the organisers of the Classical Reception Studies Network’s 2025 Classical Reception Summer Speaker…
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September 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Now up on the CRSN site! Antonio Papapicco and Valeria Spacciante - the organisers of the CRSN/ICS 2025 Summer Series - reflect on the theme of ancient violence and its reception in the modern world. Read more here:
classicalreception.org/modern-refle...
classicalreception.org/modern-refle...
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We're supporting a new National Theatre exhibition exploring how ancient Greek tragedies continue to inspire modern theatre.🎭
Our expert in ancient Greek literature, @lucycmmjackson.bsky.social curated the exhibition.
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Read more: 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
Our expert in ancient Greek literature, @lucycmmjackson.bsky.social curated the exhibition.
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Read more: 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
August 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
We're supporting a new National Theatre exhibition exploring how ancient Greek tragedies continue to inspire modern theatre.🎭
Our expert in ancient Greek literature, @lucycmmjackson.bsky.social curated the exhibition.
bsky.app/profile/nati...
Read more: 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
Our expert in ancient Greek literature, @lucycmmjackson.bsky.social curated the exhibition.
bsky.app/profile/nati...
Read more: 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
I am enjoying watching ‘Too Much’, but I do just keep thinking wistfully of ‘I May Destroy You’.
He locked. Her out. When she went. To get. Pizza.
THAT’S how you do it.
He locked. Her out. When she went. To get. Pizza.
THAT’S how you do it.
July 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I am enjoying watching ‘Too Much’, but I do just keep thinking wistfully of ‘I May Destroy You’.
He locked. Her out. When she went. To get. Pizza.
THAT’S how you do it.
He locked. Her out. When she went. To get. Pizza.
THAT’S how you do it.
Just want three or four other ways of saying ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’, is that too much to ask…?
July 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Just want three or four other ways of saying ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’, is that too much to ask…?
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“I asked Chat GPT” “I asked Grok”
Ok well I asked Sappho and she said
…….
…….
..[b]osom
Ok well I asked Sappho and she said
…….
…….
..[b]osom
July 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“I asked Chat GPT” “I asked Grok”
Ok well I asked Sappho and she said
…….
…….
..[b]osom
Ok well I asked Sappho and she said
…….
…….
..[b]osom
When people say “You’re not tired, you’re just dehydrated” it makes me want to decapitate them with a Barbie doll. I can be both, fool. I contain multitudes.
June 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
When people say “You’re not tired, you’re just dehydrated” it makes me want to decapitate them with a Barbie doll. I can be both, fool. I contain multitudes.
Andor is great and I don’t mind a bit all the Andor content being pushed to me on Facebook. They really had the ma(a)rvellous Fiona Shaw saying ‘Fuck the Empire’ and it’s not everything but it’s not nothing
June 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Andor is great and I don’t mind a bit all the Andor content being pushed to me on Facebook. They really had the ma(a)rvellous Fiona Shaw saying ‘Fuck the Empire’ and it’s not everything but it’s not nothing
Why do packing cubes, and the people who advertise them, have such a hold on me?
May 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Why do packing cubes, and the people who advertise them, have such a hold on me?
We’re at the Mahler 9 stage of marking season
May 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We’re at the Mahler 9 stage of marking season
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This is happening in the UK, not the US.
Fascism, misogyny & the desire to control women’s bodies is on the rise everywhere.
Stop using period tracker apps. Consider a permanent form of birth control if you’re sure you don’t want kids. Be discrete with your reproductive health.
Fascism, misogyny & the desire to control women’s bodies is on the rise everywhere.
Stop using period tracker apps. Consider a permanent form of birth control if you’re sure you don’t want kids. Be discrete with your reproductive health.
"Police have been issued guidance on how to search women’s homes for abortion drugs and check their phones for menstrual cycle tracking apps after unexpected pregnancy loss"
"...police could bypass legal requirements for a court order to obtain medical records..."
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"...police could bypass legal requirements for a court order to obtain medical records..."
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Police could search homes and phones after pregnancy loss | The Observer
New national guidance suggests officers look for menstrual tracking apps or abortion drugs
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May 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
This is happening in the UK, not the US.
Fascism, misogyny & the desire to control women’s bodies is on the rise everywhere.
Stop using period tracker apps. Consider a permanent form of birth control if you’re sure you don’t want kids. Be discrete with your reproductive health.
Fascism, misogyny & the desire to control women’s bodies is on the rise everywhere.
Stop using period tracker apps. Consider a permanent form of birth control if you’re sure you don’t want kids. Be discrete with your reproductive health.
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It's here! Know your rights. A resource for trans people in the UK following the Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act. It has been reviewed by a team of lawyers to help you (and us) feel confident in knowing your rights.
You'll find it at transactual.org.uk/know-your-ri...
#Trans #Nonbinary
You'll find it at transactual.org.uk/know-your-ri...
#Trans #Nonbinary
May 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
It's here! Know your rights. A resource for trans people in the UK following the Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act. It has been reviewed by a team of lawyers to help you (and us) feel confident in knowing your rights.
You'll find it at transactual.org.uk/know-your-ri...
#Trans #Nonbinary
You'll find it at transactual.org.uk/know-your-ri...
#Trans #Nonbinary
#TheatreSky what are your favourite seismic pieces of literary criticism on Midsummer Night’s Dream? Marxist, feminist, anarchist?
May 13, 2025 at 6:48 AM
#TheatreSky what are your favourite seismic pieces of literary criticism on Midsummer Night’s Dream? Marxist, feminist, anarchist?
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Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29
April 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29
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Day four! Striking for our jobs! We are not a drain on the university! We ARE the university!
May 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Day four! Striking for our jobs! We are not a drain on the university! We ARE the university!
FAB to stand with dedicated picketers today on Day 3 of our local branch STRIKE! Best of all was the support (honk honk!) from the Durham town community. This callous threat of forced redundancies by Management impacts our whole community - brothers and aunts, sisters and sons, colleagues and pals!
April 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
FAB to stand with dedicated picketers today on Day 3 of our local branch STRIKE! Best of all was the support (honk honk!) from the Durham town community. This callous threat of forced redundancies by Management impacts our whole community - brothers and aunts, sisters and sons, colleagues and pals!
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Day two of the strike, and we've ben getting a lot of questions from students about the action. What's it for, why are we doing it now, and how can they help.
So let's run through some Strike Questions! 🧵
So let's run through some Strike Questions! 🧵
April 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Day two of the strike, and we've ben getting a lot of questions from students about the action. What's it for, why are we doing it now, and how can they help.
So let's run through some Strike Questions! 🧵
So let's run through some Strike Questions! 🧵
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Great turnout today on @ducu.bsky.social pickets. On strike to protect professional services staff jobs.
An attack on one is an attack on all!
Management tried to pit academics against professional services staff - they've failed!
We are *all* the university!
An attack on one is an attack on all!
Management tried to pit academics against professional services staff - they've failed!
We are *all* the university!
April 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Great turnout today on @ducu.bsky.social pickets. On strike to protect professional services staff jobs.
An attack on one is an attack on all!
Management tried to pit academics against professional services staff - they've failed!
We are *all* the university!
An attack on one is an attack on all!
Management tried to pit academics against professional services staff - they've failed!
We are *all* the university!
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New picket day, new sign. As cuts go up, services go down. Upset by the cut in library hours? Just you wait until cuts take effect!
Anise pine nut cookies ready to go for the morning!
@ducu.bsky.social #veganpickets
#NoCuts
#SaveOurStaff
Anise pine nut cookies ready to go for the morning!
@ducu.bsky.social #veganpickets
#NoCuts
#SaveOurStaff
April 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
New picket day, new sign. As cuts go up, services go down. Upset by the cut in library hours? Just you wait until cuts take effect!
Anise pine nut cookies ready to go for the morning!
@ducu.bsky.social #veganpickets
#NoCuts
#SaveOurStaff
Anise pine nut cookies ready to go for the morning!
@ducu.bsky.social #veganpickets
#NoCuts
#SaveOurStaff
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Job cuts are a choice, not a necessity.
@ducu.bsky.social is on strike today to protect our colleagues and our university.
@ducu.bsky.social is on strike today to protect our colleagues and our university.
April 28, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Job cuts are a choice, not a necessity.
@ducu.bsky.social is on strike today to protect our colleagues and our university.
@ducu.bsky.social is on strike today to protect our colleagues and our university.