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Sarah Hemming

@sarahhemm.bsky.social
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Theatre, politics and football mostly. I write about theatre (not football!) for the Financial Times.

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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh Desert Island Discs has floored me again. Dame Parveen Kumar taking the beautiful trio from Der Rosenkavalier which my mother adored. 💔
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Talked to the wonderful Kristin Scott Thomas and Stephen Mangan about Chekhov’s masterpiece, The Cherry Orchard ❤️ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Kristin Scott Thomas and Stephen Mangan take on The Cherry Orchard
As Chekhov’s final play comes to the West End, the two lead actors discuss why its themes of grief, privilege and social upheaval still seem so painfully alive
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Talked to the wonderful Kristin Scott Thomas and Stephen Mangan about Chekhov’s masterpiece, The Cherry Orchard ❤️ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Kristin Scott Thomas and Stephen Mangan take on The Cherry Orchard
As Chekhov’s final play comes to the West End, the two lead actors discuss why its themes of grief, privilege and social upheaval still seem so painfully alive
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup are knockout in this new staging of Edward Albee’s blistering classic giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup slug it out in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — five-star review
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Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup slug it out in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — five-star review
At London’s Soho Place Theatre, the pair are scintillatingly good in Edward Albee’s vicious portrait of a marriage
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup are knockout in this new staging of Edward Albee’s blistering classic giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup slug it out in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — five-star review
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Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup slug it out in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — five-star review
At London’s Soho Place Theatre, the pair are scintillatingly good in Edward Albee’s vicious portrait of a marriage
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.threads.com/@mrgaz673/po...
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Gareth Edward Howells (@mrgaz673) on Threads
TO ALL MAN CITY FANS RIGHT NOW THIS IS FOR YOU
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well this could be interesting . . .
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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WARNING: Moose will try to diagnose what is wrong with your broken vehicle.
Road sign of smashed car and moose
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Went to see them last night. They blew me away. Sensational. www.theguardian.com/stage/galler...
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Sky’s the limit! Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – in pictures
The always revelatory dance company is at Sadler’s Wells in London this month with two programmes, celebrating their legacy and presenting ‘heavenly’ new works
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just saw the superb Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at Sadler’s Wells. Oh my word. Take me to church! 😍
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
FFS. People are going to die because of these thugs.
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Talked to director Sam Yates about giving Clifford Odets a rare run-out on the English stage: Golden Boy at the Almeida. Such a cool cast for such an influential play giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Sam Yates: ‘The ruthlessness of today’s world is reflected in this play’
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Sam Yates: ‘The ruthlessness of today’s world is reflected in this play’
The award-winning theatre director is bringing Clifford Odets’s ‘Golden Boy’, starring Josh O’Connor, to the UK stage for the first time in decades
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Opens tonight
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's hard to think of anything less British than the morons doing this to the heroic RNLI
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 08/09/2026
It won’t stop these reprehensible, cowardly pieces of shit attacking the RNLI, but here is a handy link to donate rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bloke on Five Live: the Dover protestors were patriots like those who went and fought in WW2. Actually those guys were fighting against the blackshirts.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
More evidence of fighting age men swarming uninvited into our towns.
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Black-clad, far-right thugs marching on ports; protesters beaten up at Reform conference; Suella Braverman insisting school pupils would have to sing the national anthem under Reform; and, worst of all the AfD winning in Germany. Manfred Karge’s Man to Man no longer seems like a history play.
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The film Pressure is based on David Haig’s excellent play of the same name from a few years ago. Might be nice to credit him. #r4today
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Oh Germany, what are you doing 😞
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
From "I'm not a compliance officer" to "I know electoral law, I know donation law better than anybody" in 35 seconds.
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Listening to a guy explaining how to make dinner out of your stockpiled goodies - tinned lentils with ‘some lovely tinned carrots’ - and you know what, can we maybe just avoid an apocalypse…?
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
No blackshirts here please. Didn’t want em in the 30s. Don’t want em now.
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Talking to the phenomenon that is Michael Sheen at #ftweekendfestival this afternoon 🎭🙌
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
‘Growing pains’?? Chris Mason on Reform’s grubby money debacle 🤦‍♀️
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Nadhim Zahawi making grubby, insidious remarks about boatloads of ‘men of fighting age’ in effort to distract from this sordid money story.
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
‘Everyone’s gunning for us’. Big MAGA-style ‘we’re the victims’ energy at the Reform conference.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 04/09/2026
It's the Farage story they are all talking about
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
‘The British people want this done,’ crows Tice on ‘getting rid’ of the Human Rights Act. I’m ’British people’ and I don’t want this done, you parcel of rogues.
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 03/09/2026
If you’d like to know more about James Orr, here’s this week’s @ftweekend Magazine cover story as.ft.com/r/2ba39ce2-9...
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James Orr and the gospel of the new British right
Reform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I agree. Google didn't have to rush to bend the knee. But it did.
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
‘It feels so immediate’ What a joy and privilege to talk to Tilda Swinton and the fab creative team reuniting for Man to Man, Manfred Karge’s groundbreaking play nearly 40 years after they first staged it:
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a glossy purple clot Among others, red, green, hard as a knot. You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it - Seamus Heaney, Blackberry-Picking
Blackberries, painting by Harold Harvey from 1922, which shows two women picking blackberries in a field
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Lol Google this is such loser behaviour
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
‘It feels so immediate’ What a joy and privilege to talk to Tilda Swinton and the fab creative team reuniting for this groundbreaking play @royalcourt.bsky.social : giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Tilda Swinton on dusting off her Y-fronts after 40 years
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Tilda Swinton on dusting off her Y-fronts after 40 years
The actor makes a long-awaited return to the stage in Nazi-era gender-swap play ‘Man to Man’, a hit in 1987. She and her collaborators explain why it’s time for a revival
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
What an absolute joy to spend time with the incredibly gifted team bringing Manfred Karge’s seminal Man to Man back to the stage, four decades after they premiered it: Tilda Swinton, Stephen Unwin, Bunny Christie and Ben Ormerod. 🔥❤️ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Tilda Swinton on dusting off her Y-fronts after 40 years
The actor makes a long-awaited return to the stage in Nazi-era gender-swap play ‘Man to Man’, a hit in 1987. She and her collaborators explain why it’s time for a revival
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
What an absolute joy to spend time with the incredibly gifted team bringing Manfred Karge’s seminal Man to Man back to the stage, four decades after they premiered it: Tilda Swinton, Stephen Unwin, Bunny Christie and Ben Ormerod. 🔥❤️ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Tilda Swinton on dusting off her Y-fronts after 40 years
The actor makes a long-awaited return to the stage in Nazi-era gender-swap play ‘Man to Man’, a hit in 1987. She and her collaborators explain why it’s time for a revival
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Also. Looks a bit Hot Fuzz
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dolly Parton’s Glastonbury 2014 set is now on BBC iPlayer.
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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Death must have been reading his Customer Satisfaction Surveys. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Ratko Mladić, the ‘Butcher of Bosnia’, dies aged 84
Bosnian Serb commander responsible for Srebrenica massacre dies in prison while serving life sentence for genocide
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What’s that sound? Rain on leaves . . . ❤️
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
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Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What a loss. What a loss.
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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton: the perfect answer to all those weird creeps who think empathy is a weakness.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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