Touted Folly: Theatre

Playwright. Not as dull as I sound. SNARED / The Terribly Disappointing Mr Pummel / KNOCK KNOCK / Zeus and Me

[Touted Folly: Theatre @toutedfolly]

Cellunova's new production of my play, KNOCK KNOCK, runs this September. Their creative vision and dedication have brought something truly extraordinary to life. I sincerely hope you will have the opportunity to experience it.

Tickets: https://t.co/5pZ8JkECiz #cellunova

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Sir David Attenborough casually pulling off one of the greatest dolly shots ever filmed will never stop being impressive.

[𝘿𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙠 𝙁𝙖𝙮𝙚 (oh, You are Awful) @HeyHeyDerekFaye]

Morning!
Artillery with It Ain’t half hot mum

[Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet]

In celebration of #YorkshireDay, I present to you the Sean Bean Bastard Collection.

Sound up, bastards.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Nobody breaks the fourth wall quite like Julie Andrews. A single glance at the camera is enough to steal the entire scene.

[Alison Moyet @AlisonMoyet]

I’ll tell you what was better in the old days. You could have opposing opinions and still keep your job or share a pint together. Makes no odds to me where your land lies. This is diversity. This is what diversity means.

[Matty Dread @MattyDread]

I needed this today Rik Mayall, absolute genius 😂😂😂😂😂#RikMayall #TheFuckingRikMayall #UkComedy #Joke #Comedy

[Marc Pieterse (⧖) @marcpieterse.bsky.social @PieterseMarc]

A rescued friend 💚You know you can save ~300 animals per year just by stopping to eat animal products? #LiveVegan save lives 🙏@kandafarmsanctuary

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

An 8-year-old greets a deaf delivery driver with the greetings he taught her over several weeks. After practicing, she finally gets them right, bringing joy to the delivery driver.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

“I was known as the Pavlova of the parallels.”

THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN (1976)

#PeterSellers

[Memes vs. Football @memesvsfootball]

France vs. England match highlights..

[Herod Priovolos @herodpriovolos]

Dear Christopher Nolan,
My name is Herod Priovolos and I want to tell you what #TheOdyssey truly means to me and to generations of Greeks who grew up with Homer’s story.
Homer did not sing of Odysseus simply to entertain us with ships, storms, gods and monsters. He told the story because he understood what war, time, distance and loss can do to the human soul.
Odysseus leaves Ithaca as a king, a husband and a father. He returns twenty years later alone, exhausted and disguised as a beggar, carrying the memory of every companion who never made it home.
The monsters are not merely creatures created for spectacle.
The Cyclops is power without justice. The Sirens are the beautiful voices that tempt a person to abandon their purpose. Circe represents the danger of losing our humanity. Calypso offers Odysseus immortality, but even eternal life becomes a prison when the price is forgetting his wife, his son, his homeland and his own identity.
And Ithaca is not merely an island.
Ithaca is the place that remembers you when the world no longer recognizes your face. It is the home that remains alive inside you after everything else has been taken away. It is Penelope growing older while she waits. It is Telemachus becoming a man without his father. It is Argos surviving long enough to recognize his master one final time.
Odysseus is not great simply because he defeats monsters. He is great because he is proud, frightened, wounded, clever, imperfect and deeply human. He loses his companions, his youth, his name and twenty years of his life, yet he refuses to forget who he is.
When he finally returns, Penelope does not recognize him through strength, glory or appearance. She tests him. Odysseus proves his identity by remembering the bed they built together around the roots of a living olive tree.
That is the heart of The Odyssey.
Not the battles.
Not the ships.
Not the monsters.
Two people standing before each other after twenty years, asking whether love, memory and identity can survive everything time has done to them.
That is why this poem has survived for almost 3,000 years. Every human being is trying to return to something: a home, a person, a lost part of themselves, or the life they had before the world changed them.
So use Homer’s seas, gods, heroes and monsters. But please understand what you are touching.
The Odyssey was never truly about how far a man could travel.
It was about how much the world could take from him before he stopped being himself, and whether, after losing almost everything, he could still find his way home.

[Touted Folly: Theatre @toutedfolly]

Superb.

[Hollywood Horror Museum @horrormuseum]

If you're a fan of the original Peter Sellers Pink Panther films, you're going to adore this!

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

One of CONNERY’s best performances came — ably abetted by Harry Andrews — in Sidney Lumet’s

THE HILL (1965)

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Orwell's most brilliant observation in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was that reducing a person's vocabulary also reduces his capacity to think.

Reading old or difficult literature will unleash the full potential of your mind.

Great video 👇

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

The Government has finally launched a consultation on fireworks to protect dogs and pets

- Limit loud fireworks to professional displays only

- Tougher safety rules for lower-risk fireworks

- Bans on the most dangerous fireworks

This needs cross party support the public is expect nothing less

[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

Everything in the universe consists of frequencies and vibrations. A truly fascinating perspective on physics!

[Prickles and Paws @Prickles_Paws]

Meet Lynx 💚🦔
One of 8 new admissions yesterday, Lynx was found out alone in Trevone. He’s now safely settled into an incubator and is already self-feeding 🙌

[Retro Toys and Cartoons @toys_retro]

Legs & Co - Blue Peter - 1979

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

"Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third."

—T.S. Eliot