🇬🇧 London-based 🇦🇺Aussie-born 🇺🇸American-speaking theatremaker. 📷: @ZoeBirkbeck 🛀: @jessicamunna
London, England
Joined November 2012
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It's coming!
The PLAYWRIGHTS CHRISTMAS PARTY! 26th Nov 7 - 12. @royalcourt bar, London.
ALL playwrights & screenwriters welcome! ALL levels of experience. Come with pals, come alone & make pals. We'll look after you. Prize for best xmas jumper.
PLS SHARE. @PlaywrightsXmas
TIL that in the original German, "doppelganger" is the same in both singular and plural. Isn't that delicious? Not the same in the feminine form, but we can't have everything. #LanguageLovers
Well, I've done it. I've done the thing you're sposed to do. I've forced myself to write even when I don't feel like it and now I hate the work and I hate myself and it's all terrible and maybe just maybe there might be something salvageable in it when I get back to it tomorrow.
When the doctor says, "how are you" as you're sitting down, I never know if I'm supposed to follow social niceties or get right into my back pain or sinus infection or whatever. Any doctors seeing this, what do you think?
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People who become quite good writers tend to be those who have spent a lot of time being quite bad writers and did not, as a result, run away from themselves.
Never underestimate the power of having a strong stomach for your own shortcomings.
The first time I ever properly read shakespeare, I was twelve studying Romeo and Juliet at school and delighted with how fucking funny it is. Viscerally felt the principle that I now intellectually understand as, when you make them laugh the subsequent making them cry hits better
Restaurant take: if a certain amount of time elapses after asking for the bill, you should walk without paying. (Have never actually done this. But waiting for forty - five minutes is not cool.)
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Amy Garner Buchanan (they/she) retweeted
Theatre producers!
I am often hosting/producing readings by playwrights of all kinds at @draytonarmsSW5
If you're interested in attending more readings/WIPs drop an email to [email protected]
and it would just generally be lovely to meet more of you all x
Today's favourite piece of #Aussie slang: "cactus". Means broken, dead or exhausted. Saw one etymology that suggested it's from an invasive species of cactus plant that was eradicated, but who knows how reliable these things are.
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Feminist and lesbian icon Sandi Toksvig is once again undergoing harassment from "Gender Criticals".
Toksvig outlined the absurdity of the trans bathroom panic and criticised self-proclaimed "feminists" for prioritising their hatred for trans ppl over real women's rights issues.
Ah, I see we're entering "extra cosy on the train because I'm snuggled against everyone else's coats" season
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What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
~ Langston Hughes
Just did a Bridgerton rewatch. How on earth are they going to follow that. Penelope is easily the most interesting character - but those brilliant writers I'm sure will spin more gold
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PRODUCER CALLOUT: looking for a producer to join our team for a remount of a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ award-winning(!!!!) show for a 2025 London run, to support with fundraising and producing! if you or someone you know are keen, drop me a line!
retweets very appreciated, thank you folks ❤️
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A non-actor friend said to me: “The acting industry seems to be a massive con. It’s mostly people who can’t be actors anymore doing endless training for other actors for jobs that aren’t there”. Does feel like that sometimes… @the98percentpod
