They make a wasteland and call it peace.
“Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant” – never gets old.
October 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
They make a wasteland and call it peace.
Proud to announce this is on in Stratford next spring. The brilliant Mark Gatiss in the title role, and the brilliant Sean Linnen directing. Brecht’s savage satire about how democracy can be eaten alive is unfortunately very timely.
September 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Proud to announce this is on in Stratford next spring. The brilliant Mark Gatiss in the title role, and the brilliant Sean Linnen directing. Brecht’s savage satire about how democracy can be eaten alive is unfortunately very timely.
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The Haunted Paper exhibition is now open at Dorothy, Jamaica Street in the Baltic Triangle Liverpool. Thanks to everyone who came last night to the opening. Lots of you! And some great conversations. The exhibition is on until September 19th, weekdays. I would love you to see it.
August 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The Haunted Paper exhibition is now open at Dorothy, Jamaica Street in the Baltic Triangle Liverpool. Thanks to everyone who came last night to the opening. Lots of you! And some great conversations. The exhibition is on until September 19th, weekdays. I would love you to see it.
Wishing the cast and crew of RED OR DEAD at @royalcourtliv.bsky.social a lovely last night. And congrats to adaptor-director Philip Breen. It’s a wonderful show, full of passion and poetry. Love the community chorus too. And this is from a Blue!
April 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Wishing the cast and crew of RED OR DEAD at @royalcourtliv.bsky.social a lovely last night. And congrats to adaptor-director Philip Breen. It’s a wonderful show, full of passion and poetry. Love the community chorus too. And this is from a Blue!
The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.
March 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.
Just starting to look at Iphigenia At Aulis, realised my copy is the same I used when making a translation of Trojan Women in *1992* for the Courtyard drama school in London
March 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Just starting to look at Iphigenia At Aulis, realised my copy is the same I used when making a translation of Trojan Women in *1992* for the Courtyard drama school in London
Met @thewhitepube.bsky.social !Aka Gabrielle and Zarina. Their book is excellent. Buy it. Also, their friend made them cupcakes which we sampled and were also excellent.
March 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Met @thewhitepube.bsky.social !Aka Gabrielle and Zarina. Their book is excellent. Buy it. Also, their friend made them cupcakes which we sampled and were also excellent.
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A Trump shill on Newsnight claims there are more people in prison in UK jails for freedom of speech violations than in Putin’s Russia.
These people are radicalised, insane, plain stupid or some combination of all three.
These people are radicalised, insane, plain stupid or some combination of all three.
February 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A Trump shill on Newsnight claims there are more people in prison in UK jails for freedom of speech violations than in Putin’s Russia.
These people are radicalised, insane, plain stupid or some combination of all three.
These people are radicalised, insane, plain stupid or some combination of all three.
I binged #theNightAgent while recovering from a gastric infection. Loved it. Is season 2 more of the same? Engaging batshit schlock? Do I need to be semi-comatose to enjoy?
February 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I binged #theNightAgent while recovering from a gastric infection. Loved it. Is season 2 more of the same? Engaging batshit schlock? Do I need to be semi-comatose to enjoy?
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Almodovar's first feature film in English is an amusing and enlightening meditation on cancer and suicide, and a lot less melodramatic than his Spanish movies
Golden Lion winner is on all major VoD platforms:
dmovies.org/2024/09/02/t...
Golden Lion winner is on all major VoD platforms:
dmovies.org/2024/09/02/t...
The Room Next Door
Almodovar's first feature film in English is an amusing and enlightening meditation on cancer and suicide, and a lot less melodramatic than his Spanish movies
dmovies.org
February 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Almodovar's first feature film in English is an amusing and enlightening meditation on cancer and suicide, and a lot less melodramatic than his Spanish movies
Golden Lion winner is on all major VoD platforms:
dmovies.org/2024/09/02/t...
Golden Lion winner is on all major VoD platforms:
dmovies.org/2024/09/02/t...
This is seriously seductive writing. Mesmerising. Shocking and unflinching, humane and wry. All the good adjectives. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/j...
January 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This is seriously seductive writing. Mesmerising. Shocking and unflinching, humane and wry. All the good adjectives. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/j...
January 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Train journey from Liverpool to Oxford today, changing at Birmingham New Street - my journey from home to university in the 80s, breathing in the diesel fumes and tobacco smoke.
November 20, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Train journey from Liverpool to Oxford today, changing at Birmingham New Street - my journey from home to university in the 80s, breathing in the diesel fumes and tobacco smoke.
Started this just before the election. Powerful, unnerving.
November 16, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Started this just before the election. Powerful, unnerving.
Good day to you all.
November 14, 2024 at 10:37 AM
Good day to you all.