Reposted by Stephen SharkeyCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Whether it’s politics or sides of the Mersey, I’m uniting red and blue. 631816278
Reposted by Stephen SharkeyThe Play Podcast @theplaypodcast.bsky.social · 02/07/2026“It used to be a warning from history, now it’s the news.” Mark Gatiss on Bertolt Brecht’s timely, and timeless, political satire, ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.’ Playwright @steshark.bsky.social and Professor Tom Kuhn join me in our latest episode on Brecht’s political parable. 📷 Marc Brenner 032
Stephen Sharkey @steshark.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Reading Turgenev, ‘Fathers and Sons’. Finding it tough going - perhaps he’s hard to translate? Interested to find out from any Russianists out there. 020
Stephen Sharkey @steshark.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Reading Katie Kitamura’s novel AUDITION. She writes superbly well about theatre amongst other things and there’s a head-spinning switcheroo halfway through, I am in thrall. 010
Stephen Sharkey @steshark.bsky.social · 28/01/2026theguardian.comPlacebo make theatre debut with score for Brecht production by Royal Shakespeare CompanyAlt-rockers will score Hitler allegory The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, with Mark Gatiss in the title role 000
Stephen Sharkey @steshark.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Not recommended for bedtime reading, recommended for any other time of day. ‘A Stephen King thriller hijacked by Proust’ it says on the back. Maybe a French noir rewritten by Jon Fosse. Anyway it’s stunning. #LaurentMauvignier 020
Reposted by Stephen SharkeyMaylin @blithespirit4.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Did something today I used to do regularly in grad school - grabbed a coffee and immersed myself in a play. Bought this when I first moved to Liverpool but meeting the playwright this week prompted a re-read. Very powerful story set during the Blitz when the city was hit hard. Strong Hamlet vibes. 173
Stephen Sharkey @steshark.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Proud to announce this is on in Stratford next spring. The brilliant Mark Gatiss in the title role, and the brilliant Sean Linnen directing. Brecht’s savage satire about how democracy can be eaten alive is unfortunately very timely. 071
Reposted by Stephen SharkeyJeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 07/08/2025The Haunted Paper exhibition is now open at Dorothy, Jamaica Street in the Baltic Triangle Liverpool. Thanks to everyone who came last night to the opening. Lots of you! And some great conversations. The exhibition is on until September 19th, weekdays. I would love you to see it. 6298
Stephen Sharkey @steshark.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Wishing the cast and crew of RED OR DEAD at @royalcourtliv.bsky.social a lovely last night. And congrats to adaptor-director Philip Breen. It’s a wonderful show, full of passion and poetry. Love the community chorus too. And this is from a Blue! 010
Stephen Sharkey @steshark.bsky.social · 25/03/2025The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity. 010
Stephen Sharkey @steshark.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Just starting to look at Iphigenia At Aulis, realised my copy is the same I used when making a translation of Trojan Women in *1992* for the Courtyard drama school in London 000
Stephen Sharkey @steshark.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Met @thewhitepube.bsky.social !Aka Gabrielle and Zarina. Their book is excellent. Buy it. Also, their friend made them cupcakes which we sampled and were also excellent. 010
Reposted by Stephen SharkeyLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 18/02/2025A Trump shill on Newsnight claims there are more people in prison in UK jails for freedom of speech violations than in Putin’s Russia. These people are radicalised, insane, plain stupid or some combination of all three. 1862823562
Stephen Sharkey @steshark.bsky.social · 05/02/2025I binged #theNightAgent while recovering from a gastric infection. Loved it. Is season 2 more of the same? Engaging batshit schlock? Do I need to be semi-comatose to enjoy? 000
Reposted by Stephen SharkeyDMovies @dmovies.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Almodovar's first feature film in English is an amusing and enlightening meditation on cancer and suicide, and a lot less melodramatic than his Spanish movies Golden Lion winner is on all major VoD platforms: dmovies.org/2024/09/02/t...dmovies.orgThe Room Next DoorAlmodovar's first feature film in English is an amusing and enlightening meditation on cancer and suicide, and a lot less melodramatic than his Spanish movies 0222
Stephen Sharkey @steshark.bsky.social · 23/01/2025This is seriously seductive writing. Mesmerising. Shocking and unflinching, humane and wry. All the good adjectives. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/j... 330
Stephen Sharkey @steshark.bsky.social · 04/01/20252025 1. be more Jackson Lamb #inspo #lifegoals #slowhorses 020
Stephen Sharkey @steshark.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Train journey from Liverpool to Oxford today, changing at Birmingham New Street - my journey from home to university in the 80s, breathing in the diesel fumes and tobacco smoke. 030
Stephen Sharkey @steshark.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Started this just before the election. Powerful, unnerving. 030
