Vinay Patel
@vinaypatel.bsky.social
Writes scripts, feeds cats, tries to not fuck up that thing you love | Murdered By My Father, Doctor Who, One Day | Associate Playwright, Royal Court Theatre
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We asked d/Deaf actors and BSL interpreters to tell us all about how they use sign language on stage.
What’s it like, translating written English to BSL? Or trying to sign for multiple characters at once? Or interpreting the dense poetry of Shakespeare, or how a song is being sung in a musical?
What’s it like, translating written English to BSL? Or trying to sign for multiple characters at once? Or interpreting the dense poetry of Shakespeare, or how a song is being sung in a musical?
BSL on stage: 'It gives me the ability to express so many more things'
From signing Shakespeare to rapping in a musical: how sign language can light up our stages
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September 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
We asked d/Deaf actors and BSL interpreters to tell us all about how they use sign language on stage.
What’s it like, translating written English to BSL? Or trying to sign for multiple characters at once? Or interpreting the dense poetry of Shakespeare, or how a song is being sung in a musical?
What’s it like, translating written English to BSL? Or trying to sign for multiple characters at once? Or interpreting the dense poetry of Shakespeare, or how a song is being sung in a musical?
The Spirit of Cricket isn’t found on the field - it’s found on a random square outside a pub after a game finishes early where disappointed fans - strangers all - join together to bowl a few overs at a lad clutching a thermos as a bat
August 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The Spirit of Cricket isn’t found on the field - it’s found on a random square outside a pub after a game finishes early where disappointed fans - strangers all - join together to bowl a few overs at a lad clutching a thermos as a bat
Because I’ve misheard the lyrics since childhood I’ve only now realised that Tina Turner’s “We Don’t Need Another Hero” is about escaping the Thunderdome from Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome
July 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Because I’ve misheard the lyrics since childhood I’ve only now realised that Tina Turner’s “We Don’t Need Another Hero” is about escaping the Thunderdome from Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome
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Playwrights! Screenwriters! Friends of playwrights and screenwriters! If you're in London on the 24th July PLEASE join us for a #SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial at Soho Theatre Walthamstow. Pls share.
July 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Playwrights! Screenwriters! Friends of playwrights and screenwriters! If you're in London on the 24th July PLEASE join us for a #SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial at Soho Theatre Walthamstow. Pls share.
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the Fantastic Four cast get asked about their own personal fantastic four, which leads to some canned niceties from pascal, kirby and quinn, and an insanely he knows ball answer from ebon.
July 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
the Fantastic Four cast get asked about their own personal fantastic four, which leads to some canned niceties from pascal, kirby and quinn, and an insanely he knows ball answer from ebon.
Watched The Phoenician Scheme (at a dog friendly screening, yes) and then for some reason came home and double-biller it with The French Connection and boy was that some tonal whiplash
May 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Watched The Phoenician Scheme (at a dog friendly screening, yes) and then for some reason came home and double-biller it with The French Connection and boy was that some tonal whiplash
Oh wow! Finally getting Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo over here (and directed by Omar Elerian which is A Good Call)
May 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Oh wow! Finally getting Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo over here (and directed by Omar Elerian which is A Good Call)
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For the late night crowd, stayed up to finish recaps on THE FINAL ANDOR EPISODES - and holy cow, what a poetic, spy-filled, thoughtful, measured, exciting and emotionally poignant series. I am stunned (and can't wait to watch Rogue One in context, that'll come soon) www.patreon.com/posts/128920...
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May 14, 2025 at 8:37 AM
For the late night crowd, stayed up to finish recaps on THE FINAL ANDOR EPISODES - and holy cow, what a poetic, spy-filled, thoughtful, measured, exciting and emotionally poignant series. I am stunned (and can't wait to watch Rogue One in context, that'll come soon) www.patreon.com/posts/128920...
Happy Andor finale day! Revisiting my old piece about Rogue One again and the me from 9 years ago would've been delighted with how that film lead to such terrific television
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ROGUE ONE OR: THE WAR DOESN’T CARE ABOUT YOUR GODDAMN HERO NARRATIVE CHARACTER ARC, SOLDIER
CAVEATS #1 – What Rogue One attempts to do is almost certainly more interesting if you’re a Star Wars fan and there’s no denying that there is a huge amount of fan service going on in this mo…
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May 14, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Happy Andor finale day! Revisiting my old piece about Rogue One again and the me from 9 years ago would've been delighted with how that film lead to such terrific television
vinayskpatel.wordpress.com/2016/12/28/r...
vinayskpatel.wordpress.com/2016/12/28/r...
I say this not as a slam, but as idle thought: I wonder if I am emotionally (if not professionally) sanguine about AI in the scriptwriting world because I don’t know how it feels materially different to a few people writing what seems like everything?
May 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I say this not as a slam, but as idle thought: I wonder if I am emotionally (if not professionally) sanguine about AI in the scriptwriting world because I don’t know how it feels materially different to a few people writing what seems like everything?
Would love to do this white smoke business for when I finish a script instead of having a deadline
May 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Would love to do this white smoke business for when I finish a script instead of having a deadline
Think “rebooting” Threads is somehow bleaker than Threads itself
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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‘The time is right for it’: Adolescence team to reboot nuclear war drama Threads
UK producers share excitement for ‘bold’ remake of controversial 1980s film set in post-apocalyptic Sheffield
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Think “rebooting” Threads is somehow bleaker than Threads itself
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Nothing dates Glengarry Glen Ross more than the apparent reluctance of Patels to buy property
March 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Nothing dates Glengarry Glen Ross more than the apparent reluctance of Patels to buy property
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Netanyahu is a war criminal
Israel will cut the flow of electricity into Gaza immediately, a week after blocking all aid into the territory: cnn.it/4kBAmiz
Israel to cut Gaza electricity immediately, energy minister says | CNN
Israel will cut the flow of electricity in the Gaza Strip immediately, Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen said in a statement Sunday.
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March 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Netanyahu is a war criminal
Fellas, is it a Supporting Actor role if you’re one of two people on the poster?
March 3, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Fellas, is it a Supporting Actor role if you’re one of two people on the poster?
Niche politics/theatre fact for you…
Keir Starmer met Steve Reed in the Royal Court bar in July 2019 to talk leadership bid. Jack Thorne’s “The End of History” was playing then. Its blurb? “When you’ve named each of your offspring after your socialist heroes, you’ve given them a lot to live up to”
Keir Starmer met Steve Reed in the Royal Court bar in July 2019 to talk leadership bid. Jack Thorne’s “The End of History” was playing then. Its blurb? “When you’ve named each of your offspring after your socialist heroes, you’ve given them a lot to live up to”
February 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Niche politics/theatre fact for you…
Keir Starmer met Steve Reed in the Royal Court bar in July 2019 to talk leadership bid. Jack Thorne’s “The End of History” was playing then. Its blurb? “When you’ve named each of your offspring after your socialist heroes, you’ve given them a lot to live up to”
Keir Starmer met Steve Reed in the Royal Court bar in July 2019 to talk leadership bid. Jack Thorne’s “The End of History” was playing then. Its blurb? “When you’ve named each of your offspring after your socialist heroes, you’ve given them a lot to live up to”
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Thesis Antithesis Synthesis
January 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Thesis Antithesis Synthesis
(I feel very old)
Happy 5th anniversary of Jo Martin as The Fugitive Doctor and of the episode, Fugitive Of The Judoon.
#JoMartin @vinaypatel.bsky.social #ChrisChibnall
#JoMartin @vinaypatel.bsky.social #ChrisChibnall
January 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
(I feel very old)