Dawn Draper

Lover of art, culture, opera, comedy, the great outdoors and of course the Archers. Lesbian not Queer 🏳️‍🌈

[Dawn Draper @dawndraper54]

@ahistoryinart Such a sad loss, joyful, accessible art and such a broad range of mediums across his life. So lucky to have got to see his retrospective in Paris last year and his immersion one in the Lightbox ( I’ve seen others of course) 😕

[Brighton Open Air Theatre @BOATheatre]

📖 Brighton Little Theatre's award-winning show Jane Eyre starts tonight! 📖

Visually arresting and emotionally charged, this adaptation breathes raw, urgent life into one of literature’s most enduring heroines.

Running from 10th-13th June!
Tickets 👉 https://t.co/ZWJokAKNPZ

[Brighton Little Theatre @brighton_little]

✨ We are very proud to announce that our production of JANE EYRE has won the Outstanding Theatre Award at the Brighton Fringe!
If you missed this fantastic show at BLT we are coming to @BOATheatre 10 - 13 June at 7pm, Matinee 13 June at 2pm Book soon at https://t.co/R70ViFuWzw

[Brighton Little Theatre @brighton_little]

🌟 JANE EYRE - From the shadows into the light. Mr Rochester's ward Adele is jumping for joy to tell you that all audience members will get a free drink at the BLT performances in honour of it being our 800th Production! So book soon at https://t.co/BCU52FUTG9

[Brighton Little Theatre @brighton_little]

💫 JANE EYRE - A journey from shadows into light.
BLT: 9 & 12 - 16 May at 7.30pm, Matinees 9, 10 and 16 May at 2.30pm.
BOAT: 10 - 13 June at 7pm, Matinee 13 June at 2pm
Tickets already selling well for both runs so book soon at https://t.co/BCU52FUTG9

[Brighton Little Theatre @brighton_little]

🌹 JANE EYRE - A heroine torn between love and liberation.
BLT: 9 & 12 - 16 May at 7.30pm, Matinees 9, 10 and 16 May at 2.30pm.
BOAT: 10 - 13 June at 7pm, Matinee 13 June at 2pm
Tickets already selling well for both runs so book soon at https://t.co/BCU52FUTG9

[Brighton Little Theatre @brighton_little]

"I don’t suppose it will matter so much then as I am the only one who really minds about the tidying and I won’t, well I will be, but it will be different."
16-18 April 7.30pm, matinee 18 April 2.30pm. Book soon at https://t.co/BCU52FUTG9

[Brighton Little Theatre @brighton_little]

A woman is interviewed about a personal tragedy and the effect on her and her public serving husband.
WHITE THING by Simon Jenner and performed by Caroline Marchant. 16-18 April at 7.30pm, matinee 18 April at 2.30pm. Book soon at https://t.co/BCU52FUTG9

[Brighton Little Theatre @brighton_little]

“I sometimes fantasized about making her put them all in her mouth at the same time and making her swallow them until they were all gone.“
16-18 April at 7.30pm, matinee 18 April at 2.30pm. 65% of tickets sold so book soon at https://t.co/BCU52FUTG9

[Brighton Little Theatre @brighton_little]

Nine months? In the dark? No snacks? No WiFi? A baby waits to be born and muses on their surroundings.
WOMB WITH A VIEW is the first of the short pieces that make up CONNECTIONS.
16-18 April at 7.30pm, matinee 18 April at 2.30pm. Book soon at https://t.co/BCU52FUTG9

[Brighton Little Theatre @brighton_little]

An "Outstanding Show"/5 Star review of The Tempest from Fringe Review UK and ViewFromTheGods - 'If you can beg a ticket, see this. Outstanding.' https://t.co/yxls9DeUJz or https://t.co/WKNrBvytQt
All Sold Out but may be worth trying on the door for returns.

[Brighton Little Theatre @brighton_little]

🎭 Revenge or Redemption — which will The Tempest bring? When Prospero conjures a storm to wreck his enemies on the shore, the island becomes a stage for tangled plots, wild spirits, & schemes of power.
3 - 7 March 7.30pm, matinee Sat 7 March 2.30pm. Book https://t.co/BCU52FVrvH

[Brighton Little Theatre @brighton_little]

Our next production is Shakespeare's The Tempest - Shipwrecks, sorcery, and second chances! The Tempest whirls together magic, betrayal, revenge, and redemption.
3 - 7 March 7.30pm with a matinee on Sat 7 March 2.30pm. 50% of tickets sold book at https://t.co/BCU52FVrvH

[Dawn Draper @dawndraper54]

Thank you for your amazing company all week 🦉🦊🐿️🦡 #Winterwatch

[Dawn Draper @dawndraper54]

@BOATheatre Objection added to council website

[Brighton Open Air Theatre @BOATheatre]

We need your help! BOAT's future is at risk.

A planning application that would seriously jeopardise the future viability of the theatre has been submitted. You can help by objecting to the application.

Visit our website for our full statement: https://t.co/FJojr9KCi8

[Dawn Draper @dawndraper54]

@sussex_tours The mushrooms area was amazing I expected to see fairies 🧚

[Markos Mom @Markos_mom]

The Station Nightclub fire happened in 2003. No smartphones. No Instagram.

100 people still died because they stood watching the flames, thinking it was part of the show.

I've retrofitted fire safety for some of the largest property portfolios in the UK post-grenfell.

You are confusing stupidity with biology, physics, and catastrophic design failures.

Here is the actual science of what you are watching:

1. When the music keeps playing and staff don't panic, the human brain overrides flight instincts to fit the threat into a normal context. This is called normalcy bias. These kids froze to process conflicting social cues, not to post for likes. They were likely already filming. They were also likely drunk.

2. We explicitly design buildings to account for this hesitation (pre-movement time). Fire safety codes assume people will wait before running. In a compliant building, you can assume up to a minute or two before egress commences. Sprinklers and detection systems are designed specifically to buy that time.

3. The reason the time buffer didn't exist here is the material. That ceiling is polyurethane foam. It doesn't burn linearly; it hits flashover (1,100°F) in under 90 seconds. It's essentially solid gasoline. The room would have exploded for all intents and purposes. Way before anyone could reasonably evacuate.

4. We calculate exit widths based on how many people can physically pass through a door per minute (flow rate) versus how fast a fire spreads. With foam fires, the available safe egress time drops to almost zero. Even if they had reacted instantly, the crowd density would have choked the exits before the room cleared.

5. In any normal building fire, especially one that starts off small, you expect a responsible adult to put it out, or sprinklers to do the same. When there's a pan fire in a restaurant, you don't run out in case the entire building suddenly explodes. No reasonable person should have expected this unless they were the owner and knew how the building was designed.

Those poor teenagers likely passed out from smoke inhalation soon after this video. If they didn't, they would have been caught in a catastrophic explosion as they crammed into the single tiny exit.

They didn't die because of Instagram.

They died because the physics of the fire moved faster than human bodies can physically squeeze through a door, and a catastrophic disregard of safe design principles meant they never stood a chance.

[Dawn Draper @dawndraper54]

@jennyeclair @royalacademy It was the best show I saw in 2025 so bravo to the RA!

[Dawn Draper @dawndraper54]

@bertsbooks I finished the Two Roberts today & it’s excellent 👌