Christopher Spring
@springwritenow.bsky.social
Communications/PR for Theatres; producer of OommoO by Lula Mebrahtu (currently booking for tours).
Petition to ban flashback episodes in Netflix series; they are just terrible substitutions for exposition.
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Petition to ban flashback episodes in Netflix series; they are just terrible substitutions for exposition.
This has been a right for literally a thousand years - stop framing underinvestment as somehow a thing we have to lose rights about. What. The. Fudge.:
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This has been a right for literally a thousand years - stop framing underinvestment as somehow a thing we have to lose rights about. What. The. Fudge.:
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Hearing a major CEO telling the business editor of the Today Programme that they have projected they will cut 1/3 of their office workforce on the radio is toe curlingly scary. #r4today
November 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Hearing a major CEO telling the business editor of the Today Programme that they have projected they will cut 1/3 of their office workforce on the radio is toe curlingly scary. #r4today
I cannot be the only person dismayed when you spend 2-3 hours on a draft to then send it to someone and have it returned with a "I've had a re-jig" to only put it through ChatGPT and make it distinctly worse? Unbelievably depressing time.
November 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I cannot be the only person dismayed when you spend 2-3 hours on a draft to then send it to someone and have it returned with a "I've had a re-jig" to only put it through ChatGPT and make it distinctly worse? Unbelievably depressing time.
Some pieces of TV are just pure THEATRE on-screen; a prime example being Peaky Blinders.
Throughout the show the sets, costume and even the cinematography is just pure pure pure theatre in its heightened naturalism. Now I'm out of London, on a mission to find more TV like this - suggestions please!
Throughout the show the sets, costume and even the cinematography is just pure pure pure theatre in its heightened naturalism. Now I'm out of London, on a mission to find more TV like this - suggestions please!
October 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Some pieces of TV are just pure THEATRE on-screen; a prime example being Peaky Blinders.
Throughout the show the sets, costume and even the cinematography is just pure pure pure theatre in its heightened naturalism. Now I'm out of London, on a mission to find more TV like this - suggestions please!
Throughout the show the sets, costume and even the cinematography is just pure pure pure theatre in its heightened naturalism. Now I'm out of London, on a mission to find more TV like this - suggestions please!
Theatre ... Bluesky... is there a play about the moment of the downfall of the Berlin Wall? I am obsessed with it and want to find a way of dramatising that exact moment.
October 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Theatre ... Bluesky... is there a play about the moment of the downfall of the Berlin Wall? I am obsessed with it and want to find a way of dramatising that exact moment.
Dear Mr Starmer - we live on an island. Our borders aren't going to be made safer by digital IDs, just our personal freedoms made more complicated when we (excuse me whilst I laugh - "non-white" people) will be asked to show our IDs at every conceivable opportunity by the police.
September 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Dear Mr Starmer - we live on an island. Our borders aren't going to be made safer by digital IDs, just our personal freedoms made more complicated when we (excuse me whilst I laugh - "non-white" people) will be asked to show our IDs at every conceivable opportunity by the police.
@canongate.co.uk - attacking @thetimes.com for a bad review is just not a good look. There is a remarkable similarity between both endings, and pointing it out is covered under "honest opinion". Goodness me, folks. You're allowed to receive a bad review.
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Len Pennie — Scotland’s worst poet since William McGonagall
Poyums annaw, the latest collection by the TikTok-famous poet Len Pennie, deals with serious issues — but it’s hard to take her poems seriously
www.thetimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
@canongate.co.uk - attacking @thetimes.com for a bad review is just not a good look. There is a remarkable similarity between both endings, and pointing it out is covered under "honest opinion". Goodness me, folks. You're allowed to receive a bad review.
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
As @BBCr4today were interviewing vulnerable people in camps in Northern France, whipping up racism and not pointing out the insanity of people running from conflicts having to apply for asylum with IDs and passports. Have some insight into life on the camps there. #r4today
bit.ly/3VVYxx0
bit.ly/3VVYxx0
A report from the Jungle in Calais - A Hummingbird Project special — Christopher Spring
As I sit back in comfortable Brighton a couple of days after returning from Calais – the “Jungle” is feeling more and more like a bad dream.
bit.ly
September 18, 2025 at 6:14 AM
As @BBCr4today were interviewing vulnerable people in camps in Northern France, whipping up racism and not pointing out the insanity of people running from conflicts having to apply for asylum with IDs and passports. Have some insight into life on the camps there. #r4today
bit.ly/3VVYxx0
bit.ly/3VVYxx0
Reposted by Christopher Spring
#BLOG - Russia’s War On Ukraine’s Culture northwestend.com/russias-war-... @springwritenow.bsky.social
Russia’s War On Ukraine’s Culture - North West End UK
Historically, the last week of August in Ukraine is a time of commemoration, and this year was no exception. The 29th August, ‘A Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of Ukraine’, is a day when the Ukr...
northwestend.com
September 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#BLOG - Russia’s War On Ukraine’s Culture northwestend.com/russias-war-... @springwritenow.bsky.social
Reposted by Christopher Spring
The BBC are seriously entertaining the removal of Human rights to deal with a made up "crisis" that Brexit didn't solve either. The removal of Human rights is vast, and never temporary.
Also, never trust a man who dehumanises people down to "boat people".
#R4today
Also, never trust a man who dehumanises people down to "boat people".
#R4today
August 29, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The BBC are seriously entertaining the removal of Human rights to deal with a made up "crisis" that Brexit didn't solve either. The removal of Human rights is vast, and never temporary.
Also, never trust a man who dehumanises people down to "boat people".
#R4today
Also, never trust a man who dehumanises people down to "boat people".
#R4today
LL COOL J - I'm Bad (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by LLCoolJVEVO
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June 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Great to see that the "enshittification"(™️Ben Plesser) of the world has now bled into the arts.
It's sort of fucking ridiculous that we've decided that human endeavour and creation is just free. Well done:
www.thestage.co.uk/news/cultura...
It's sort of fucking ridiculous that we've decided that human endeavour and creation is just free. Well done:
www.thestage.co.uk/news/cultura...
AI bill passes through parliament without amendment
A controversial data bill, which has garnered opposition from leading industry figures, has passed through parliament without an amendment that would have given creatives more control over their work
www.thestage.co.uk
June 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Great to see that the "enshittification"(™️Ben Plesser) of the world has now bled into the arts.
It's sort of fucking ridiculous that we've decided that human endeavour and creation is just free. Well done:
www.thestage.co.uk/news/cultura...
It's sort of fucking ridiculous that we've decided that human endeavour and creation is just free. Well done:
www.thestage.co.uk/news/cultura...
Do we think Trump just wakes up and thinks: "I wonder what nonsense I'm going to do today - it is Thursday after all."
June 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Do we think Trump just wakes up and thinks: "I wonder what nonsense I'm going to do today - it is Thursday after all."
Dear @googledocs.bsky.social - no: "Chairman" is not the reasonable autocorrection of "Chairwomaen" [Sic]. There's another word much closer to that spelling that makes much more sense....
March 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Dear @googledocs.bsky.social - no: "Chairman" is not the reasonable autocorrection of "Chairwomaen" [Sic]. There's another word much closer to that spelling that makes much more sense....
February 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Imagine going to the theatre and being alienated by LGBTQ+ people? The theatre is one of the most inclusive and safe spaces historically.
This is absurd and, if it didn't need being said again: LGBTQ+ people love the theatre (OBVIOUSLY)
Keep being fab
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
www.thestage.co.uk/news/perform...
This is absurd and, if it didn't need being said again: LGBTQ+ people love the theatre (OBVIOUSLY)
Keep being fab
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
www.thestage.co.uk/news/perform...
Performers' safety in spotlight as further homophobic abuse is reported
Venues and producers are facing pressure to ’ensure performers’ safety’ following a further incidence of homophobia from an audience member during a performance
www.thestage.co.uk
February 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Imagine going to the theatre and being alienated by LGBTQ+ people? The theatre is one of the most inclusive and safe spaces historically.
This is absurd and, if it didn't need being said again: LGBTQ+ people love the theatre (OBVIOUSLY)
Keep being fab
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
www.thestage.co.uk/news/perform...
This is absurd and, if it didn't need being said again: LGBTQ+ people love the theatre (OBVIOUSLY)
Keep being fab
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
www.thestage.co.uk/news/perform...
One of my favourite books and I'm so so glad that it's great version of it.... love love love
★★★★★ THE YEARS #HaroldPinterTheatre - The #Almeida’s all-women hit transfers to the West End - a bravura, joyous feat of storytelling, says Demetrios Matheou theartsdesk.com/theatre/year...
The Years, Harold Pinter Theatre review - a bravura, joyous feat of storytelling
Annie Ernaux’s semi-autobiographical book Les Années charts a woman’s life across time and space, history and memory, through what the author describes as a collective consciousness. Perhaps the most ...
theartsdesk.com
February 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
One of my favourite books and I'm so so glad that it's great version of it.... love love love
Could someone set up a Donald Trump watch where the bot automatically tracks his movements and the insane shit he says so that everyone else can just ignore him?
February 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Could someone set up a Donald Trump watch where the bot automatically tracks his movements and the insane shit he says so that everyone else can just ignore him?
Ok, this FKA Twigs song and the visuals are absolutely a class above. Amazing work:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHVx...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHVx...
FKA twigs - Perfect Stranger
YouTube video by FKA twigs
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January 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Ok, this FKA Twigs song and the visuals are absolutely a class above. Amazing work:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHVx...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHVx...
Lula XYZ ANNOUNCES OommoO episode 1 at The Old Market in Brighton, April 5+6 - We'd love to see you there!
January 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Lula XYZ ANNOUNCES OommoO episode 1 at The Old Market in Brighton, April 5+6 - We'd love to see you there!
Finally saw Cyrano at @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social - what a piece. Sensitive, raucously funny and with an unexpectedly messy and stupidly, ridiculously, fun ending. Cast great, venue great, script great. Lived up to expectations and more - go and catch final tix:
parktheatre.co.uk/event/cyrano/
parktheatre.co.uk/event/cyrano/
Cyrano - Park Theatre
Virginia Gay’s joyous, gender-flipped retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac, packed with music, wit and aching romance, is a love letter to hope; to language and desire; to the irrepressible magic of theatr...
parktheatre.co.uk
January 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Finally saw Cyrano at @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social - what a piece. Sensitive, raucously funny and with an unexpectedly messy and stupidly, ridiculously, fun ending. Cast great, venue great, script great. Lived up to expectations and more - go and catch final tix:
parktheatre.co.uk/event/cyrano/
parktheatre.co.uk/event/cyrano/
£13 Cyrano tickets at the @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social? £5 Projekt Europa tickets at the @newdiorama.bsky.social? Don't mind if I do. Absolutely PSYCHED for these two...!
January 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
£13 Cyrano tickets at the @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social? £5 Projekt Europa tickets at the @newdiorama.bsky.social? Don't mind if I do. Absolutely PSYCHED for these two...!
I know Summerhall's plight is well documented, but its eerie to walk up and see it empty.
In other news though: Scotland is damn fine. Happy New Year everyone.
In other news though: Scotland is damn fine. Happy New Year everyone.
January 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I know Summerhall's plight is well documented, but its eerie to walk up and see it empty.
In other news though: Scotland is damn fine. Happy New Year everyone.
In other news though: Scotland is damn fine. Happy New Year everyone.