I believed in something, and took it to the heart of the industry, and those assembled from that industry voted for it to win the Big Idea Debate at @thestage.co.uk Future of Theatre Conference. It's a big deal. It's only the beginning.

Watch the pitch here: youtu.be/a9xnQl4mC8g?...

This course is going to be so good. Places going fast so if you want to do some derring-do stage combat, sign up!

Last chance to book! Smallsword six day intensive this half term at RCS

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Come learn how to fight in style and stick 'em with the pointy end

SMALLSWORD INTENSIVE APR 7-12

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BOOK TODAY!

Stage combat challenges you physically, technically and emotionally to deliver on the highest stakes moments in storytelling. Smallsword help you to channel aggression with precision, safety and style. Come fight with us!

Smallsword Professional Certification Intensive at RCS, April 7&12.

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With the BASSC, the longest running and most rigorous accrediting body in the UK.

#stagecombat #actors #skills #swords

Taught Lyly’s Galatea today, with support from TSMGO’s superb production @rob-myles.bsky.social & @andykesson.bsky.social research. Gallathea is one of the most fun Elizabethan comedies and a pure joy to discuss with students!

SCOTLAND! Two weeks to go!

THE UNICORN: MAR 2

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Covering a combination of fun and functional training opportunities with multiple weapons styles across both stage & screen. This workshop puts the play in swordplay.

Feels like one of those weeks where it's worth reminding people that Carl Sagan's Cosmos is on archive.org

If you need some comfy viewing start here:

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AI overview actually serving delight today. 🦜

Taken a long while to create boundaries around this, still working on it, and still encountering it regularly. Especially when pitching ideas. That's the craziest part - I share money-making IP then you ask me to discount it because I'm excited about it. Enthusiasm has a cheapening effect.

I know he will be inundated with weirdos trying to contact him but, after listening to Michael Sheen on “Front Row” last night, it feels a shame he and @rob-myles.bsky.social aren’t in touch. It sounds like they are trying to address similar issues from parallel perspectives.

Art should be funded like science. To properly fund art, you fund failure. Funding failure will give you occasional excellence. Creating any art with the aim of it being popular enough to make money, will give you consistent mediocrity. Arists need funding to play and fail because that's the process

Let me tell you about the weird business that delivers art into our lives, and the impact it has on the long-term careers of artists. This is a thread prompted by yet another article on authors' incomes, and the inevitable reactions from the 'people-would-pay-if-it-was-worth-it-to-them' brigade. 1/

First post! Looking for my Shakespeare actors, practitioners, academics! Looking for my stage fighters! Looking for my digital theatre creators! Looking for theatre journalists! Looking for SCOTTISH THEATRE!

Find me here. Hoping for the best now Threads is dead.

#shakespeare #theatre