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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The Epstein files really made it clear that royals can truly be some of the most stupid people on the planet. Second place occupied by the billionaires…

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

NEPO BABY 2025 trend: Mommy/Daddy (who happen to be a huge name) stars in their child’s debut movie. Guess the result! 😂😂

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Maybe by the time you get to directing your 10th movie not only you start loosing your creative power (as Tarantino likes to say) but you also become a complete asshole! (as Tarantino doesn’t seem to realise). #Tarantino #PaulDano

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I guess it’s RIP HBO - some of the most influential tv shows and the definition of the golden age of tv came from them. The Wire; Succession; Sopranos; Six Feet Under; Treme; etc. The list goes on and on. With Netflix acquiring HBO I am afraid mediocrity will now take over…

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I find it absolutely insane that Trump could destroy the East Wing of the White House without requiring proper conservation approval. I know the USA has a whole different culture of regulations (or lack of), but surely these buildings are heritage grade protected?

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Every couple of years an international show comes to the Barbican and blows people’s mind in the U.K. And the second day everyone goes back to doing what they used to do before (as practice, aesthetic, approach to making theatre). Have seen this “movie” a couple times already it’s almost funny 🤣

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Migrants in Theatre doesn’t have an account (yet) on bluesky but this is the latest statement to put together. We are all concerned with what’s going on in this country and need the solidarity of our peers from the theatre industry. Feel free to follow us on Instagram.

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

10 years ago it was the Eastern European migrants, then it was Brexit. When they couldn’t use these excuses, they got obsessed with the “illegal” migration and refugees. Let’s be honest, NOTHING will satisfy these people waving the flags these days. THEY will ALWAYS FIND SOMETHING else…TO HATE!

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Following the tragic death of the great Russian theatre director, Yury Butusov, the online platform StageRussia (completely independent and USA based) is running a special offer package of buying 3 recording for 15£. Proceeding will all go to the surviving family. 👇 vimeo.com/ondemand/but...

vimeo.com

Watch Butusov Set Online | Vimeo On Demand

A trio of extraordinary works, from Gogol to Chekhov to Shakespeare, staged by Yury Butusov. Watch and rewatch as often as you want, whenever you want. All proceeds…

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Such a tragedy - Yuri BUTUSOV, the famous theatre director who left Russia after the start of the war, drowned in Bulgaria. 💔💔 He directed The Seagull production which we watched part of the European Theatre Club during the pandemic + The Good Person of Shezhuan at the Barbican some years ago.

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

90% of calls for directors/assistants/trainees/resident are ALL about what the applicant can offer. Almost no meaningful thought in terms of what the theatre/institution can offer in terms of craft and artistic development for the person applying. It’s all so one sided…and uninteresting really…

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I would dare to argue that THE SERVANT (1963) is the best British film ever made. 🙊

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Good to see the Young Vic studio making a come back…

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

What the Labour government doesn’t understand is that you can’t win the argument with some voters and some communities. So many of these folks adopted a victimhood mentality and resentment - yesterday it was Brexit and EU migrants, today it’s the “illegals” , tomorrow they will find someone else…

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I am really looking forward to that play that stops idealising (mostly) white working classes and also deals with the racism, xenophobia and victimisation that exists with a lot of people from these communities. Genuinely getting tired of folks finding excuses for the far right voters…

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

How the hell is still possible for Farage to count in politics? He’s the architect of Brexit, the biggest mistake of U.K. politics in decades. Political rivals should remind everyone that every time Farage opens his mouth. The media should do that too. Are the Brits seriously switching to Reform?

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Question for my Canadian friends if they can illuminate me: P. POILIEVRE losing his seat for the first time since 2004 - isn’t this a bit strange given that the Conservative didn’t do that bad overall? Is he actually less popular than his own party?

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Part of me would really want to see Canada becoming a USA state for one reason only: It will be the state with the most electors given its population and it would probably vote Democrats, hence it would become borderline impossible for the Republicans to ever win the presidency. 😂🙃😂

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

In a city like London, with so much offer in terms of theatre, standing out is absolutely essential. And still - almost no theatre institution has a fully shaped/assumed artistic identity. Everyone does the same - a bit of everything basically. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Trump’s assault on universities is textbook autocratic behaviour. We’ve seen this in so many other instances (Hungary, Germany în the 30s, Russia). The only chance is for ALL American universities to stand together on a matter of principle and rally popular support.

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Been noticing this for years but now we have the data. Or better said - don’t follow the money, follow the studios (I reckon loads of theatres that used to produce show in their studio space stoped doing that). For eg. YV. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Big drop in plays staged by theatres over past decade

The number of plays and musicals staged by the UK's main subsidised theatres is down by almost a third.

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This is an interesting discussion (although I always roll my eyes when chats about “European theatre” never make it further than Amsterdam in terms of concrete references). I would add a few things that make the difference: lack of ambition and vision (both in programming and artistic intent)

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

When you are reading a German play written in 1892 and outside is 2025 😀

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Wait until Trump finds out the Brits regularly transfer shows from the West End to Broadway. He will put tariffs on those ones too. “The British theatre is ripping us off” 🙊😂😂

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I genuinely think that one of the biggest mistake you can make as a board în the theatre world is to DELAY appointing an ARTISTIC DIRECTOR. We can look at so many examples when that happened and how various theatre institutions/festivals have slowly gone off the radar/started losing any identity.

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

It’s been a long time (maybe since 2019?) since I attended a show in person in the German speaking (theatre) world. 🙃

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Hmm, am I mis-interpreting or there’s a risk for ACE to be abolished too given the approach they took with NHS England? If not, what’s different? It sounds a bit like a similar arms length principle?

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The Olivier really need to split in two the BEST NEW PLAY category. They could have instead: 1. BEST NEW ORIGINAL PLAY. 2. BEST (ADAPTATION) PLAY. Writing a new play from scratch is a whole different thing than adapting a pre-existent material into a play…

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The Canadians are the only so far to give Trump a run for its money. And funny enough I also think they have loads of cards to play (since it’s all about that these days). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Ontario's Doug Ford says he could cut electricity to US over tariffs - BBC News

Ford announced retaliatory plans shortly after Trump implemented tariffs against Canada.

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Sometimes you got to give it to the Brits - they can be charming, honourable and relied upon to do the right thing. 🙏👌🙏 Compared to the USA these days, I feel we are in paradise here in the U.K. (government discourse wise).

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Imagine being Putin now and watching all that exchange. He can’t believe his luck of having two absolute idiots (POTUS and the VP) doing his bidding without him lifting a finger. That exchange is almost unbearable to watch given the consequences and tragedy that will follow….

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

STARMER at the WHITE HOUSE - i don’t even know if we are watching a satire, a reality show or a vomite inducing slice of reality? Every day I feel more and more like the whole world became the reality from The Emperor’s New Clothes folktale by Hans Christian Andersen…(due to one orange guy).

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The Brutalist is a good movie but bloody fell, couldn’t they find to cast some Hungarian actors? I get it that you need big names for the leads but at least some of secondary character or something? Casting feels like it’s from the 1950 a bit….

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I genuinely think an undercover KGB agent as USA president would have been better than Trump. At least the undercover KGB agent would have tried to keep up appearances and not give too much to Putin. Trump seems genuinely in love with Putin out of his honest convictions…

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I am very un-judgemental în general but if you go on holiday to Dubai or UAE or some similar country with various forms of workers exploitation akin to modern slavery, I will judge you all day long 😂😂

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

It turns out that the whole AI powered future/economic growth was one huge bubble that just got burst by a small Chinese company. What a surprise!!! And huge thanks to the Chinese “socialists” for showing us how corrupt and manipulated is the capitalist system of money and wealth 😂😂😀

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I keep saying this - the only way to “hurt” and “calm down” guys like Musk is their business and pockets. And the price of shares depends and fluctuates a lot on boycott movements. Do you actually think MAGA people buy Tesla and electric cars?

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

1. What a beautiful and moving piece from Kyle MacLachlan…and how much theatre could learn from this… (See second tweet for the rest of the piece)

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Did you come across anything more DISGUSTING lately than how these “powerful” and “daring” tech billionaires are becoming doormats in front of TRUMP? They would probably sell their mothers in the market without the blink of an eye for their business to continue….

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

D A V I D L Y N C H 😢💔😢

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

You read the bio of some actors and come across stuff like “he graduated in classics at Cambridge uni in 2000 and then joined the RSC for their 2000/2001 season appearing in 5 plays”. How can this be a “normal” trajectory/progression when you didn’t even train as an actor? What world is this?

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Absolutely PATHETIC to see all these “powerful” billionaires become door mats in front of Trump. If you are dismantling your DEI schemes you either: 1. Didn’t believe in them in the first place and you were enacting them for performative reasons. OR 2. They readdressed all the problems.

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

So much this - the many number of times I went to see Tennessee Williams staged in London (usually in abstract spaces/sets) only to be distracted by a bad (southern American) accent. It doesn’t bring anything, on the contrary, it often sounds fake and not truthful. And creatives still opt for it..🤷‍♂️

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

W. Faulkner Herta Muller Dostoyevsky Philip Roth Elena Ferrante

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Luckily for Germany, the regional theatre houses are as exciting as the Berlin ones (in some cases even more exciting). But there’s something major going on in Berlin with the proposed arts cuts - breaking an incredibly solid and unchallenged tradition in terms of funding and purpose of the arts.

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

It’s only a matter of time until they make that MUSICAL about LUIGI 🙃

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The German theatre system - literally the envy of the world when it comes to funding and aesthetic diversity - is facing some great challenges. Berlin theatres în this case but I wouldn’t be surprised if this repeated with other major cities….

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The problem with Robert Icke is that since he became more of a playwright his directing got worse. Not a shade on playwrights, but rather a natural consequence - if you focus more on developing your skills as a writer you obviously risk neglecting the ones as a director which are quite different.

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Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I am looking at the film medium and notice the incredible aesthetic diversity and the co-existence of various genres (even within the English speaking countries). I am looking at the theatre medium in the English speaking countries and see so much aesthetic uniformity like in no other medium. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

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