Today would have been the beginning of tech week for 'Treasure Island' at the @ShermanTheatre with the wonderful @howe_timothy! Here's a sneak peak for what will be next year..
Our much-loved building is wrapped in pink tape to support the #MissingLiveTheatre campaign! We hope it brings joy to the community. Thanks @_scene_change_ for working with theatre venues nationwide to keep us visible and highlight the impact of COVID-19 on the creative industry.
Here we go 👇🏻
The discussion over WHAT and HOW can begin anon, & urgently so, but for now I don’t mind admitting the amount of tears I have shed at the journey towards this news that felt so impossible
Culture is vital. Culture is profitable. Culture matters. Culture will stay
Everyone is talking about opening our theatre bars. It’s a good idea, but a better idea is to install large bars on our iconic stages and drink in our auditoriums whilst we’re closed. Much larger customer capacity, and I for one, would love to do a shot on every West End stage.
Welsh theatre freelancers - this survey urgently needs more Welsh data. It’s very short, 5 mins max into how you have been affected during the pandemic. Diolch my fawr.
After 10 weeks of clapping for the NHS, the Tories have quietly announced they are terminating student nurse contracts out of the blue, after paying them for only one month of Covid-19 work, leaving them without income. Why is no one talking about this?
Samuel Barclay Beckett (born in Foxrock 114 years ago today) was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator
He was a Paris resident for most of his adult life
Photo <March 1964
Source: https://t.co/0ySKc0YD7W @wikicommons
Someone needs to tell ‘Malcom’ (an old man who sits in Roath Park trying to spark conversations with people) that the best way to make socially distanced friends is not by demanding when they’ll get “REAL JOBS”
Yeah Conall from Normal People is hot but to say your standards are “ridiculously high” now bc of him... bby, if it’s an insecure culchie GAA player w/ bad communication skills and a phobia of commitment you’re after, may I present literally most of the men in Ireland
So this morning I’ve been informed that a small opera project I’ve been working on now has to be designed with social distancing in mind. All performers and the onstage orchestra have to be staged two meters apart.
I mean that’s one way to get directors to go for minimalism..