Sam Critchlow

He/They | Theatre Maker | Training at Lecoq | MA Directing @rosebruford | Recent: PROJECT DICTATOR

[Tabby @TabithaDetroit]

she did something 💥💥💥💥💥@LillyDriscoll and what a beautiful thing it is, the whole @DemystifyTI cohort just bouncing off each other + lifting each other up

[Sam Critchlow @critchlow_sam]

@linuskarp I’m so sorry this happened Linus, sending all the love and solidarity ❤️

[Sam Critchlow @critchlow_sam]

@omar_elerian @UnseenJim any ideas?

[Sam Critchlow @critchlow_sam]

Rarely post on here but I can’t express how blessed I feel to be learning and playing at Lecoq every day! Here’s to one more term!

Photos:
1 - Le Bureau (comedie humaine)
2 - Le Debarquement (melodrama/langage des gestes)
3 - The Magdalene Laundries (melodrama)

@DrumRemix

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

I just want to say 'happy new year' and give a very special thanks to everyone who has watched and engaged with my content.

For the past 12 weeks, my focus has been on the Israeli assault on Gaza.

This is, I firmly believe, one of the great crimes of our time.

Tens of thousands are being slaughtered, many of them children, a quarter of the population is projected to die from disease, 70% of buildings have been damaged or destroyed, the vast majority have been driven from their homes, food and fresh water is being denied, the medical system has all but collapsed. The horrors are endless - the apocalypse has come to Gaza.

While foreign journalists have been prevented from entering, the witnesses to this bloodbath have been the lions of the world's press pack - the Palestinian journalists of Gaza, without whom the world would have little real idea of the crimes committed by the Israeli state. Yet almost every day, these eyes and ears are snuffed out: the greatest massacre of journalists ever recorded, and in such a short space of time.

Every day, we read of reports of entire bloodlines being wiped from the face of the earth. An aid worker, a journalist, a medic, a lecturer has been killed by an Israeli air strike, along with several members of their family. Announcements such as this are to be read every day on Twitter. History may well ask how that could be so and yet there was no overwhelming pressure for this entirely manufactured human catastrophe to end. The best answer is that the Palestinian people have been completely dehumanised, and there hasn't even been a pretence that Palestinian life has any meaningful value at all.

The Israeli state, meanwhile, makes no effort to disguise its intentions, employing genocidal rhetoric on a daily basis, while Israeli society is in the grip of what can only be described as genocidal mania.

Yet this crime of historic proportions has been aided and abetted by Western powers. This is an understatement. Israel would not have been able to unleash this unimaginable horror without the weapons and diplomatic and political cover provided by the US, cheered on by states such as Britain.

Meanwhile, most of the Western media has either cheered on this atrocity, or refused to describe what are clear, unapologetic war crimes which the Israeli state isn't even making an effort to cover up, instead - at best - leaving the question of whether this is a 'proportionate' response to a matter of debate, where we can all agree to disagree.

This has nothing to do with a 'proportionate' response. It is one of the great massacres of our age, inflicted by a state which has made it clear it wishes to rid Gaza of its Palestinian population.

At the same time, dissenting voices have been vilified, harassed and silenced. There has been a deliberate campaign to portray the real hateful dangerous extremists as not those who cheer on this slaughter, but those who oppose it.

That's why my focus has been on this moral obscenity, and that's where it will stay for the foreseeable future.

I'm delighted to say that this content has been reaching an audience of many millions each month. I'm particularly proud of work to elevate the voices we need to hear - Palestinian voices above all else, of course, as well as Israeli peace activists and scholars of war and genocide. It's important that those of us using our platforms to speak the truth aren't acting as 'white knights' - it's the Palestinian people who need the biggest loudspeakers.

There will be much more of that to come. We all have a responsibility to speak out, however big or small our platform, or we become complicit. And while that may mean being harassed, intimidated and vilified, we have to remember that this is nothing compared to the horrors suffered by the Palestinian journalists of Gaza - and if they still have the courage and determination to speak the truth, then the least we can all do under infinitely less horrendous circumstances is to do the same.

Happy New Year and thanks again.

xxxx

[Sam Critchlow @critchlow_sam]

@OwenJones84 La Gare/ La Gore - best live music in the city

[The REcreate Agency @REcreate_agency]

⚠️ URGENT HELP NEEDED ⚠️

We have been left without accommodation for one of our shows at the @edfringe due to a burst pipe that the landlord failed to tell us about until today.

PLEASE message us if you have any leads or donate via this link: https://t.co/xHP0pfh3kK

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[Sam Critchlow @critchlow_sam]

What an exciting and perfect appointment!!! Congratulations @mrdavebyrne

[Royal Court @royalcourt]

We are thrilled to announce the appointment of the Royal Court Theatre’s next Artistic Director, David Byrne.

David is the founding Artistic Director and CEO of New Diorama, one of London’s most vibrant new work theatres.

Read more: https://t.co/xOs9oHGP8N

📷 Tom Jamieson

[Adam Jefferys @adamjefferys]

✨Theatre Twitter ✨ Looking to share a van from London to Edinburgh on the 28th July. Would need roughly quarter to half of the van available. Please share! #edfringe #EdFringe2023 #theatre

[Peace & Justice Project @corbyn_project]

The arrest of anti-monarchy protestors in London this morning is an abuse of power enabled by the authoritarian and unlawful Public Order Bill, passed by this disgraceful government.

The right to peaceful protest must be respected and this demonstration allowed to continue.

[Sam Critchlow @critchlow_sam]

@niamh_forster14 Hi Naimh, I would love to know some more info on this!

[Reverend&TheMakers @Reverend_Makers]

Left the Labour Party last night

Adam Curtis is correct. We are approaching the end of something as a country. USSR 80-89.

Its fucked. Everybody knows it’s fucked. Nobody at all knows how to fix it

It makes zero difference if Sunak or Starmer wins.

Murdoch etc rule anyway

[Sam Critchlow @critchlow_sam]

@hettyhodgson @adamjefferys is fantastic

[Sam Critchlow @critchlow_sam]

There’s no take to be had on this other than this is just really really shit. Sending love to all the workers at the Coliseum and the wider community of audiences, freelancers and artists who’ve put on amazing work over the years x

[Chris Lawson @chris_lawson_85]

I'm so sorry everyone x

[Sam Critchlow @critchlow_sam]

@Outside1791 @IndiaWilloughby Grow up

[Sam Critchlow @critchlow_sam]

Solidarity with @IndiaWilloughby, that was such a bigoted transphobic audience but it doesn’t surprise me since it was curated by the BBC. India is made of steel for withstanding that onslaught. Absolutely appalling to watch #bbcqt

[Sam Critchlow @critchlow_sam]

@LjpManagement @TabithaDetroit Congrats Tabby!!!!!!

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@LRees96 @Complicite We were wondering where he was this week you stole him!!!!! 😭😭😭

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@hallambreen_ @NBroadsides Thank you Hal for all you did for the young writers Forge!

[Sam Critchlow @critchlow_sam]

@bencsmoke @BeckettHGray 5 minutes!!