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Tommo Fowler
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Dramaturg and director.
New Works Associate @liveveryplay.bsky.social.
Previously Women’s Prize for Playwriting.
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You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out thatwhat a country values can change overtime. Sometimes, though, there's a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you've actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word - but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass - and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island - even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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with the grey it’s also a bit Oliver Bonas circa 2019

I feel… not all that inspired tbh
March 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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gonna start sending cease and desist letters whenever i work on something that gets a bad review
January 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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a TRAVESTY!
January 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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i love this story so much.
She’s an ICON
January 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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yeah i’ve apparently trained mine to only see cats, as a result of liking your cat

which to be fair is better than endless fascists in the other place but still
January 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM