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Phelim McDermott @openspacer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Practice the Pandiculation of your mind. Let your brain yawn.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now nudging 900! It would be great to attract 1000 signatures by the end of today, so please sign (if you haven't already) and share (ditto). This much-loved local asset mustn't be shut down, not least because Haringey is supposed to be 'London Borough of Culture 2027' www.haringeycollective.com

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Welcome to Haringey Borough of Culture 2027

Haringey’s London Borough of Culture programme is building towards 2027 with a borough-wide vision: culture that’s created with communities, shared across neighbourhoods, and felt in everyday life. Th...

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Phelim McDermott @openspacer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This year every month my wife has been creating and performing a poem on a pole. They are all beautiful and together tell a story. Watch them and enjoy them. This month her poem is a poem against a pole. It is exquisite. Do share it. #poem #pole #chemo matildaleyser.substack.com/p/poisoned?r...

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Poem Against a Pole September ‘26

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David Eldridge @deldridgewriter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wishing the Royal Exchange Theatre a very happy 50th birthday 🙏🏻❤️🎈🎂5️⃣0️⃣👌🎂😘 It’s been a privilege and honour to play this extraordinary theatre in the great city of Manchester three times over the years. A cauldron, a genuinely shared experience and a room where magic happens.

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Caveman Fella @cavemanfella.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Phelim McDermott @openspacer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Bat & Ball is easily reached by direct train from London Blackfriars.

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Phelim McDermott @openspacer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Over eight weeks, we’ll explore the stories held by people and place: finding them, shaping them, sharing them and listening for what emerges between us. Together, we’ll begin creating a living culture of storytelling, rooted in connection, imagination and possibility Just a handful of places left.

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Phelim McDermott @openspacer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s for experienced improvisers, performers and storytellers—and equally for total newbies. Anyone who simply loves stories and is curious about what they might have to tell.

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Phelim McDermott @openspacer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Storytelling in Sevenoaks: Sennockian Stories: Tuesday 29 September, I’ll be leading a new eight-week improv and storytelling workshop at Bat & Ball in Sevenoaks. www.improbable.co.uk/sennockian-s...

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Sennockian Stories: An Eight Week Storytelling Workshop — Improbable

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Only running for 2 more days at Soho Place Theatre, but Tao of Glass is an amazing performance.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A man who knows, as Oscar Wilde observed, the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

See it if you possibly can - it explores where music comes from, how art is made, who we are deep down. A profoundly thoughtful, heartfelt work with many lovely silly moments. Phelim McDermott is such a warm and engaging performer, with four superb musicians and three terrific puppeteers.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Even more impressive on a second encounter. The precision choreography, the seeming randomness, the unlimited potential of paper and sellotape (representing earth and air, fire and water, a Chinese sage, weather, birds, Philip Glass, Philip Glass's hair, ectoplasm (I think).

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Phelim McDermott @openspacer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thank you for coming again David. Lovely to see you there. ❤️

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Paul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Saw Phelim McDermott's Tao of Glass last night. Terrific theatre with new music by Glass (who took part in the first run in Manchester), puppetry, great use of theatre in the round, an eccentric but compelling confessional narrative, exploration of the roots of creativity and more.

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Kestrelart @noondaysun.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Philip Glass is in the room with us. Tao of Glass at the Soho Place Theatre My scribbled notes on the train home kestrelart.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/p... @openspacer.bsky.social

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vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

went to Tao of Glass at the theatre in Soho: an enjoyable play but I was distracted by also having to serve as a member of The Galactic Council maintaining an uneasy peace among the diverse civilisations of the Universe:

an auditorium ‘in the round’ - a centre stage lit with a circle of light, the audience sitting on four sides and upwards in steep galleries.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 05/09/2026

(The Tao of Glass at Soho Place is very good.Very grateful to my better half for convincing me to go!)

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Phelim McDermott @openspacer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

You can’t say you haven’t been told now.

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John Earls @johnearls.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My latest ‘Hanging Out a Window’ column has just been published and it’s a review of Phelim McDermott's (@openspacer.bsky.social) fabulous 'Tao of Glass' at Soho Place. Read and subscribe (free) here: johnearls.substack.com/p/theatre-re...

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Phelim McDermott @openspacer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thanks so much. Glad you enjoyed :)

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BiFuriosa @bifuriosa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Still thinking about the 'Tao of Glass' I saw last week. At the risk of sounding pretentious, most of the shows by @openspacer.bsky.social have left me feeling that I have been in the presence of theatrical genius, and this was no exception. And with Philip Glass too! He is the only director...

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BiFuriosa @bifuriosa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Theatre tip: see, if you have not already, 'Tao of Glass'.

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Kestrelart @noondaysun.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

@openspacer.bsky.social Tao of Glass phenomenal last night. Thought provoking. Moving. Humorous. A journey into artistic creation. Great musicians & amazing puppeteers. I loved that simple seeming materials assembled into animated images by clever puppetry and power of suggestion. Magic.

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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Captivated by Phelim McDermott, puppeteers and musicians in Tao of Glass at Soho Place. Beautiful and strange and engaging and funny, about memory and mortality, theatre and stories, ghosts, illusion and quantum reality. Our £25 second balcony tickets were a bargain. sohoplace.org/shows/tao-of...

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Tao of Glass @sohoplace | Official Box Office

The West End premiere of Tao of Glass featuring music by Philip Glass and presented by Phelim McDermott comes to @sohoplace for a limited run.

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Phelim McDermott @openspacer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This would be great I agree. Step by step…

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Simon Bowden @justbeauty333.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What is music? Where does it come from? What does it mean? See the JustBeauty Blog, where we review Tao of Glass, an amazing mixed-media show which explores the link between the music of Philip Glass and ancient Chinese wisdom. www.justbeautyportal.com/just-art/tao...

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Tao of Glass - Just Beauty Portal

The question is pursued with the lightest, humorous touch by the actor, writer and co-director Phelim McDermott. When the show begins, a spotlight falls not

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Rockdelux @rockdelux.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Phelim McDermott, uno de los directores de escena más singulares del teatro británico, ha construido buena parte de su carrera reciente alrededor de la obra de Philip Glass. “Tao Of Glass” –lanzado ahora comercialmente en una grabación parcial– es un espectáculo sin igual. ✍️ Jesús Rodríguez Lenin

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Philip Glass - Phelim McDermott

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Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Highly recommend Tao of Glass @sohoplace theatre - a moving, entrancing evening of storytelling, music and puppetry. #theatresky

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Phelim McDermott @openspacer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

@shohoplace! Not the theatre! This mistake has been made ;)

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Still buzzing from last night's performance of Tao of Glass at the Soho Theatre. Conceived, written and performed by @openspacer.bsky.social it landed hard and went deep. Serene and unsettling by turns, a mesmerising and immersive evening. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JnT...

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Tao of Glass @sohoplace | Official Trailer

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Helen Jerome @helenjerome.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🔥 Proustian rush of memories after seeing @openspacer.bsky.social perform his charming and playful ‘Tao of Glass’ at Sohoplace - recalling seeing Philip Glass play 🎹 live @hayfestival.bsky.social in 2014, and meeting Phelim outside @metopera.bsky.social after Akhnaten in 2022 ❤️

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Phelim McDermott @openspacer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Thank you. I am very pleased you enjoyed the show Seamus :)

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Ian @bils.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Arrived yesterday. Thanks for the nudge.

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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Well, that was fabulous. Outstanding. Tao Of Glass is my first Five Stars, No Notes show of 2026. Perfect performance, impeccable tech, self-aware, cheeky fourth-wall breaking, original Philip Glass score… and there was puppetry. Actually made me glad I was alive to see it.

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Homer Simpsons: Oh, I Love Legitimate Theater

ALT: Homer Simpsons: Oh, I Love Legitimate Theater

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Seamus Ryan @seamusryan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Never let it be said that a big loud banner on the street doesn’t work: it at least occasionally works on me. Going to this solely because it includes that word I like: OF. Also a very heavily discounted ticket, a mere £15 to me. \o/

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