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Dr Varsha Panjwani

@drvarshap.bsky.social
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Podcaster, Women & Shakespeare Author, Introduction, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (OWC) Current Writing: British South Asian Shakespeares on Stage

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Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Next up in our #Shakespeare webinar series is RICHARD III. Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social will be joined by Susan L. Anderson (Mary Baldwin University) to discuss the new Oxford World's Classics edition of the play. 5 October | 6-7.15pm (BST) This is a free public event & all are welcome!
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English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: Richard III
In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of Richard III from Oxford World's Classics.
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Is it ok for management to phone students asking them to take modules not validated on their degree because they’ve sacked people and can’t staff the modules listed? A working day before teaching starts? Hypothetically, obviously.
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OWC *A Midsummer Night’s Dream* is out! My intro moves through many Dreams: eco‑dreams, queer dreams, imperial dreams, sexist nightmares & the generative power of dreams. (Ed. Terri Bourus; gen. ed. Emma Smith.) Explore Dream's strangeness: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Surprising this story isn't getting more coverage...
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Protestors confuse Pakistan cricket team for migrants after gathering at hotel
Misinformation caused groups of people to gather at The Marriott Hotel
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Plese repost & share! Teachinge or studyinge *The Canterbury Tales* at the universitye level? Heere ys a free, open access, scholar-creatid resource: #OA #OER opencanterburytales.lsusites.org
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The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales – The new way to learn about old books
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The South Asian edition of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is out from @westlandbooks.bsky.social! It’s the history of the category of the human since antiquity, told through ideas about monsters and monster-making. 🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH 🧵
A tower of copies of HUMANS, with bright red spines, and a single copy balanced on top, its mirror-foil oval mirror on the cover facing outwards.
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
But why do humans make monsters, and what do monsters tell us about humanity? Monsters are central to how we think about the human condition. In HUMANS I trace this through the histories of science, society, literature, and pop culture. South Asian ed: available at large bookstores/online.
Four hand-drawn, colored squares contain a person standing on a stag; a person with a nose and mouth in the chest, eyes in the shoulders, and no head; a person with a face in the chest and no head; and a person holding up a very long lip.Viewed from the back, a humanlike figure wears a skin and looks over his shoulder. The caption reads, “Caliban Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration.”
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Birthday love to Zena, my gorgeous adopted donkey!💙I adopted her to celebrate finishing a draft for my introduction to #AMidsummerNight’sDream 4 Oxford World’s Classics (Bottom/donkey/queer families in the play). And in mischievous timing, the edition releases tomorrow, the day after her birthday!
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Starting New Trend #hooksmaxxing : when you're re-reading & fervently channeling bell hooks to plan & survive & bring joy to next semester's teaching...
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Dr Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou @hannahhg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I'll be teaching this short taster course, Introduction to Global Literature, at City Lit on 19th Sept. We'll be discussing Mohsin Hamid's Exit West, Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic, fictions of migration, migrating narrators & more. See & book here: www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/intr...
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AMEND - eArly Modern European NeuroDivergence @amendproject.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
AMEND PI's Dr. Laura Seymour on Dr Varsha Panjwani’s podcast "Women and Shakespeare"!😁🎉 Have a listen to the episode here🗣️ www.buzzsprout.com/891835/episo...
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S6: E6: Laura Seymour on Shakespeare and Neurodivergence - Women and Shakespeare
Laura Seymour discusses her work on Shakespeare and Neurodivergence.For a complete episode transcript, http://www.womenandshakespeare.comInterviewer: Varsha PanjwaniGuest: Laura SeymourResearchers: Ma...
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Editing the new episode of 'Women & Shakespeare' podcast has felt like an act of self‑care. I’ve been so inspired by Laura Seymour’s wonderful work on #shakespeare & #neurodiversity Give it a listen and I’m sure you will find some brill ideas here. On all platforms &on www.womenandshakespeare.com
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A joy to be in conversation with *Arundhanti Roy* after the screening of her movie, *In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones*. She kept it real, was funny, the audience was very warm. I saw this movie about clashes between students & profs with my ex-student & we shared big laughs :)
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I’m about to meet one of my real‑life heroines!! This week, I get to talk to the beautiful & brave writer, Arundhati Roy, about her newly restored *In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones* as part of London Indian Film Festival The film will screen before our Q&A! whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I really enjoyed this & learnt loads. My panellists Sarla Meisuria , Davey Nauth, Jade Tan were warm, frank, & generous pioneers. Shout out also to our fab audience, our BSL interpreter Tara and the @loveliff team!
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The film, 'In Search of the Sky', emphasizes some uncomfortable truths about the intersection of disability and poverty in rural India. Join us for a post-screening discussion at the BFI Southbank as part of the wonderful @loveliff londonindianfilmfestival.co.uk/in-search-of...
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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Archives Fest is this Sunday at The National Archives. I'm speaking about treason records (Anne Boleyn's trial record will be on display) so I can promise alleged incest and gruesome executions. Good clean family fun. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/eve...
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Archives Fest 2026
Discover 1,000 years history at The National Archives - a fun day out for the whole family!
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Today’s Midsummer Day so final #MidsummerNightsDream. Not in my OWC edition but maybe in my NEXT book (stay tuned ;-)) dir Atri Banerjee at Regent's Park.Loved Bottom & Puck A LOT. Also, l somehow manifested my cover art colours for a pic:)  Preorder here: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
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The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
“Why, this is very midsummer madness.” - Twelfth Night, 3.4 #SummerSolstice bit.ly/4vIf8UW
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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Book Launch: join @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social, in conversation with @willtosh.bsky.social, in the Kitchen with Shakespeare at Brunch, Lunch, Tea & Suppertime!* 22 June 2026, 9:00PDT/12:00EDT/17:00BST *other [meal]time zones available rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #SRSlyGood #EarlyModernEvents
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Join the author, Marissa Nicosia, 
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Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/c/shax-kitchen

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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Today’s featured production from my new #Introduction for #OWC #midsummernightsdream is dir Elle While @the_globe in which Francesca Mills was the most awesome Hermia  Preorder MND here: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Today’s featured production from my #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is the adaptation & translation dir. Habib Tanvir, *Kamdev Ka Apna Basant Ritu Ka Sapna*. Tanvir's casting+use of dialects drew attention to class divisions & rural/urban divides in MND. Preorder: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Today’s featured production from my #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is dir. Sean Holmes at Shakespeare's Globe. The cast shared the role of Robin/Puck. At some points, multiple actors played the role simultaneously! Preorder here: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Today’s featured production from my #Introduction for #OWC #midsummernightsdream is close to my ❤️. It was an NYU London & RADA production dir. Vivian Munn. Enjoyed the queer love triangle of Snout/Wall, Bottom/ Pyramus, Flute/Thisbe Preorder here: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Today’s featured production from my #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is dir. Katherine Steele Brokaw & Paul Prescott at Yosemite National Park. Poor Puck's wings were getting caught in rubbish the humans were leaving behind in the park! Preorder MND here: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Today’s featured production from my new #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is Northern Broadsides production dir Barrie Rutter. The Workmen are so busy, their casting takes place in a tea-break. Preorder here: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Today’s featured production from my new #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is the @the-rsc.bsky.social dir Erica Whyman. Billed 'A Play for the Nation', a professional cast toured around the UK & collaborated with different amateur theatre companies. Preorder here: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Today’s featured production from my #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is Michael Hoffman’s film. Flute delivers a heartfelt lament as Thisbe and stuns the audience into silence: 'very tragical mirth’ Preorder here: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Today’s featured production from my new #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is San Simske Noci /Midwinter Night’s Dream by Goran Paskaljevic. It's set in Serbia & foregrounds the compromised world that the younger generation has inherited. Preorder here: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
NEW BOOK SERIES with @dgb-history.bsky.social: "Connected Worlds in Early Modernity" with series editors Christina H. Lee and Julia Schleck. Send proposals to the fabulous @erikagaffney.bsky.social All info: rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
New book series: Connected Worlds in Early Modernity
Deadline: 4 June 2028

Visit website → 

Series Editors: Christina H. Lee, Princeton University, and Julia Schleck, Colorado State University

Connected Worlds in Early Modernity explores the cultural, literary, artistic, and devotional works emerging from global networks that interconnected Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Africa during a transformative era marked by heightened and swift transoceanic exchanges (1450–1700). The series examines how individuals and communities across multiple continents cultivated distinctive, transcultural expressions through connections forged via conquest, trade, diplomacy, and religious contestation. The series publishes monographs and essay collections from across disciplines and methodological approaches.
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Today’s featured production from my #Introduction 4 #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is *Midsummer Mechanicals* (dir Kerry Frampton+Lucy Cuthbertson). So joyous - it created a sense of community in the theatre. My interview with Frampton: www.buzzsprout.com/891835/episo... Preorder: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
not unrelated to my last post, I am very excited (especially now I've written my paper - a record-breaking WEEK before I am due to give it) for 'Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750' next week, in Oxford 18-19 June - free to attend! #earlymodern 🗃️ clioreframed.hcommons.org/conference-p...
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Conference Programme
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Today’s featured production from my #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is dir. by Nicholas Hytner @bridgetheatre.bsky.social Hippolyta was a war captive in a glass cage & audience knew she was being coerced into marrying Theseus. Preorder MND: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Today’s featured production from my Introduction for OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is *Flourish* by @1623theatre.bsky.social. It enlists imaginative help of children in restoring environmental damage caused by Titania &Oberon's quarrel Info: www.1623theatre.co.uk/flourish Preorder: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Deeply enticing CFP: Feminanimals: women as/and animals - April 2027 in Oxford, with the fabulous Fanny Clemente and Greta Colombani organising and Kaori Nagai and Chloe Taylor as keynotes - www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/events/2027/...
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FEMINANIMALS: Representations of Women and/as Animals in Literature, Arts, and Other Media
FEMINANIMALS is a three-day international conference investigating representations of women as non-human animals and of the relationship between women and non-human animals in literature, arts, and ot...
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Today’s featured production from my #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is an Indian film *10 ml Love* (dir Sharat Katariya). The workmen rehearse *Ramlila* - a folk drama that is performed around Diwali - in the midst of a big fat Indian wedding. Preorder here: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Day 8 of my #MidsummerCountdown Today’s featured production from my new #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is Peter Brook's production for @the-rsc.bsky.social I love Sally Jacobs' set that emphasizes the worlds-within-worlds of the play Preorder MND: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu Set Model: V&A
White box set with suspended red feather with Titania cutout figure in it. Surrounded by cutouts on swings. We can see beyond the set onto the dark where more cutouts are looking in
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Day 7 of my #MidsummerCountdown Today’s featured production from my new #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is the one Russell T. Davies adapted. This film imagined a euphoric ending in which Hippolyta, released from her chains, kisses Titania. Preorder MND: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
Two women kiss - one with butterfly wings and white sparkly dress - another a nature fairy
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Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
hello friends. did you know you can get my book Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays on Kindle for free? & that despite being an academic book my introduction is mainly memoir about my academic journey, after the first section? I'd love some reviews on it: www.amazon.com/Pregnancy-Sh...
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Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare’s Plays (New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture)
Amazon.com: Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare’s Plays (New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture) eBook : Andrzejewski, Alicia: Kindle Store
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Day 6 of my #MidsummerCountdown Today’s featured production/adaptation from my #Introduction 4 #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is *Revenge of the Amazons* by Jean Betts. It centres Hippolyta & the play-within-the-play is ‘Labia’s Lament’ by The Fallopian Thespians Preorder MND: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 03/06/2026
🎨📚 2 Postdoctoral Fellowships in Art & Religion | London, UK The National Gallery, London is recruiting two Howard and Roberta Ahmanson Fellows in Art and Religion for a 22-month full-time postdoctoral fellowship based in its newly established Research Department. (1/7)
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Day 5 of my #MidsummerCountdown Today’s featured production from my new #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is Sedos' (dir. Matt Hudson) in which Titania's instruction - 'Tie up my lover’s tongue. Bring him silently' - was underscored by ‘S&M’ by Rihanna. Preorder: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Day 4 of #MidsummerCountdown Today’s featured production 4rm my #Introduction 4 #OWC #MND is the @dasharts.bsky.social 1 dir. #TimSupple Indian & Sri Lankan actors performed in English &six SouthAsian languages with astute wordplay! Prod lmage: @the-rsc.bsky.social Preorder: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Day 3 of my #MidsummerCountdown Today’s featured production from my #Introduction for #OWC #MND is a web series by TheCandleWasters from New Zealand. The 'Mechanicals' are reimagined as Gen Z & they are fiery! Webseries here: youtu.be/hacdY1hJdHk?... Preorder the MND edition: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
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Ep.3 - PETRA | Bright Summer Night
YouTube video by The Candle Wasters
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Day 2 #MidsummerCountdown Today’s featured production from my #Introduction for #OWC #MND is Adrian Noble dir. stage&film version where Titania’s bower is an upturned umbrella, a nod to the play’s wet &rainy weather. Image from SBT @shakespearebtrust.bsky.social Preorder MND: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Day 1 of my #MidsummerCountdown Today’s featured production from my new #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is Julie Taymor dir. at Polonsky Shakespeare Center in NY. It began with Puck going to bed, implying that the entire play is perhaps Puck's dream. Preorder: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
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Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It’s #Midsummer month& *AMidsummerNight’sDream* is on preorder tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu. Intro by me+text ed. Terri Bourus. Emma Smith gave me this #Dream project. Celebrating by sharing productions I cite until Midsummer Night #MidsummerCountdown. Today’s joy: giant flowers on the cover by Sarah Young.
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