Porl Cooper
porlcooper.bsky.social
Porl Cooper
@porlcooper.bsky.social
. Programming & Live Event Management. Theatre Producer. Half Decent. More at
www.porlcooper.co.uk
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If you place a Black woman, an Irish woman, a Jewish woman & a Traveller woman, all in casual clothing, in a lineup, the Black woman's race would be the only one visually identifiable.
This argument that got Diane Abbott suspended from the Labour Party but it is an undeniable truth

#Istandwithdiane
July 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I'm sick of this crap from @teamlabouruk.bsky.social - for the first time in my entire voting history at 55 years of age they won't be getting my vote next election.
July 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Glastonbury Bound with the Rogues. See you in the T&C fields!
June 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Keep on Keeping On in Crewe & touring -magnificent example of theatre / new writing engagement by stealth. A show about a failing shop and failing high street staged in a vacant shop unit. With the most amazing wraparound projects ever.
www.keeponkeepinonplay.co.uk/make-it-happen
May 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Scooping all the @nunkie.bsky.social swag tonight - Great to do our first Harrogate Theatre gig at West Park URC. And some serious Quatermass vibes going on with that backdrop!
May 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Is it Chocolate day today or Sunday? Is it like Xmas (anytime after Armistice Day)?
Or just bodyweight in flavoured Hot X Buns? Gotta do something. No point going Garden Centre cos I'm still technically homeless. & t's raining. Watching Semana Santa Processions in Andalucia on The Dodgybox Channel..
April 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
All the twilight delights happening in Rochdale tonight thanks to the Town Hall team ! 😍 - looking glorious, another amazing event for the town 🙌💪
April 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Been a great week of Dance, Physical Theatre, Music & Comedy this week in Sheffield Enable US at Performance Venues - thanks @artscouncilengland.bsky.social for supporting the performance programme and our technical trainees now professionally engaged! - still more to come this season :-)
April 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Even after 20 years I've yet to understand the Great Specsavers Mathematical Wizardy and how things jump from £180 to £275 before you can say 'varifocals' :-/
April 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
World Theatre Day! For me this week's all about the next generation of talent. Legally Blonde last night at Rochdale Sixth Form College Drama A Level gang was sheer joy! Arden School of Theatre today for 2ndYr students The Visit, and tomorrow Emergence Dance by MA Students at Salford University 🙌
March 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Had the privilege of a preview of this. It's joyous! As is the book, get the book! (Holding out for the stage adaptation now - venues with deep pockets, cough up! 😜)
We made a film!

SLIDING

it's about our collection of 35mm slides. It's about photography and memory. It is about gathering together to see the world through someone else's eyes.

#analoguephotography #film #filmphotography #grainisgood #collections #35mm #slidefilm #kodachrome
March 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Fab evening for it....
March 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Please don't be contacting me urgently three days before putting your ACE app in to see if you can include me while spaffing off in the same bid about how excellent you are at "managing a project of a similar size"...
March 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Proud Cap-a-Pie Trustee moment at Northern Stage tonight! 😍
March 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Today: At Rochdale 6th Form College's Drama & Art departments hearing about their fantastic facilities, students and courses, Castleton Library & Community Centre for performance & opportunities, then HOME MCR for sharing & erformances.
February 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Id love to see every local authority socmedia account announcing Pride events in the same post remind straight folk Straight Pride is the other 364 days of the year, and the gays aren't excluding knickerwetting straights from their party should they wanna rock up with their wingeing dogshit faces.
February 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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During the last days of Trumps first reign, we made an animation about the horrors that would play out.

It seems some of the predictions were spookily accurate.

Here it is, free to watch.

#animation #politics #trump #elon

youtu.be/cfZIeWO6jw4?...
A DANGEROUS THING
YouTube video by Adam York Gregory
youtu.be
February 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The spirit of The Coliseum thrives! I'm in Oldham tonight for The Wedding Party 🥳
February 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Great stuff from an amazing creative team at Interplay in Leeds today. Take your families along before the week's out if you can!
February 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Whether you're studying it, creating it, seeing and experiencing it or just trying to make sense of it, this from @modernistpunk.com is really worth a purchase!
February 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Mariposa from De Nada dance was awesome tonight. Literally moved to tears. Didn't know a piece of dance could contain this amount of brutality and tenderness. Kudos to Carlos Pons Guerra and DeNada Dance and Spin Arts - catch it in London at The Place or Leeds at Northern Ballet.
February 15, 2025 at 2:08 AM
A busy one for @alphabettitheatre.bsky.social & Chloe Stott's "Tiny Fragments of Beautiful Light" tonight in Sheffield for Enable US
February 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Anyone factcheck'd the paper straws exploding....?
February 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Surely we can evidence the proportionate input of ALL THE OTHER CREATIVES INVOLVED & present a case for NOT SHAFTING THEM or having *their* work and contributions cancelled? This stuff fucks me off. By all means cancel a solo show or "an evening with". But seriously we've gotta stop this bollocks
A stage adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s eerie children’s story Coraline has been cancelled after sexual assault allegations were made against the author 👇 #TheatreSky #TheatreNews
Coraline tour cancelled in light of Neil Gaiman sexual misconduct claims
www.thestage.co.uk
February 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM