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Catriona MacLeod

@thatcatmacleod.bsky.social
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writes & directs theatre & film / ad + exec producer of performance, artistic development initiative + Glasgow rehearsal space _and friends / don't make me sing catmacleod.com linktr.ee/andfriends.scotland

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/07/2025
Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large
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Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning
CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.
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Framework Theatre Company @frameworktc.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Would your #edfringe show benefit from a wee bit extra marketing support? If you’re an emerging artist/company permanently based in Scotland - you should absolutely apply to our Fringe Takeover! 📲 🔗 For more info & to apply: www.frameworktheatre.com/fringetakeover
Emerging artists networking at Framework Festival 2025 in a green filter. There are two banners to create the appearance of an Instagram post. The text “deadline: 2 weeks today for Framework’s Fringe Takeover 2025!”
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/06/2025
An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house." The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.
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An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"
The practice, an expert warns, could lead to "reprisals and retribution by the police for your politics.”
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Lung Ha Theatre Company @lunghatheatre.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
We are delighted to announce the launch of our Access and Creative Principles Toolkit! We've distilled over 40 years of experience in making theatre performances with learning disabled actors into this new publication filled with insights, practical tips and examples: www.lungha.com/2025/06/lung...
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Lung Ha Theatre Company Launches Groundbreaking Access and Creative Principles Toolkit - Lung Ha Theatre Company
We have distilled over 40 years of experience in making theatre performances with learning disabled actors into the first edition of our Access and Creative Principles Toolkit, filled with insights, p...
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Katherine Mendelsohn @katherinemend.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
“Nasser Hospital says 24 people have been killed & dozens injured by Israeli fire while waiting for aid distribution in Rafah… roughly the same location where…Israeli forces killed 31 people on Sunday” www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
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Hospital director says 24 killed by Israeli fire while waiting for aid in Rafah - live updates
The Israeli military says it fired shots near an aid distribution complex after identifying
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Framework Theatre Company @frameworktc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
We’ll search for the perfect opportunities so you don’t have to 🙏 Fancy having all the latest emerging artist callouts in Scotland arrive in your inbox every month??? 🔗✉️ You can sign up to our monthly newsletter via this link: eepurl.com/hsqbXj
Panel discussion from Framework Festival 2025.
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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
What we should do is throw long-standing copyright law that underpins the socially valuable and fiscally over-performing cultural industries on a bonfire, in unflinching service of companies exactly like this one. I am extremely clever and I am also the British government. www.ft.com/content/926f...
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Microsoft-backed Builder.ai collapsed after finding potentially bogus sales
Failed UK start-up revised down revenues to just a quarter of prior estimates
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 29/05/2025
"It's important to reflect, not just on our collective actions, but the state’s violent response to them...There will always be a response. But so many of the people protesting for the first time in 2020 didn’t know that." Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/george...
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How the George Floyd Protests Prepared Us for This Moment of State Violence
Our collective actions are part of an ongoing struggle and resistance, not a final resting place.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/05/2025
Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ
 “I’ve studied McCarthyism’s impact on higher education for 50 years. What’s happening now is worse.” -Ellen Schrecker, historian
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stage2page.bsky.social @stage2page.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Paisley for Palestine seeks a director for a rehearsed reading of a short play, No Lessons Learned by Alex Cathcart, this Autumn. Role is unpaid, as all funds are going to Medical Aid for Palestine, but Paisley for Palestine will provide admin and tech support. Details from cathcart.aw81@gmail.com.
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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Fuck Eurovision man. So we narrowly avoided a blatantly astroturfed PR victory for Israel on the platform that has chosen to normalise its genocide? Fantastic. Over 100 more dead in Gaza since the start of last night's programme.
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Catriona MacLeod @thatcatmacleod.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
greens.scot/LochLomond?u...
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Save Loch Lomond - TAKE ACTION NOW
Save Loch Lomond - TAKE ACTION NOW -
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Framework Theatre Company @frameworktc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
MEET THE INDUSTRY PANEL for Framework Festival 2025! 🎪 🧡 Catriona MacLeod 🧡 Alex Bird 🧡 Eve Nicol Register for your free ticket here: www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/eve...
Background image from Framework Festival 2024 in an orange filter. Three professional headshots of panellists Catriona, Alex & Eve.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Things are going well on the everything app: www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...
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Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X
Elon Musk’s AI bot is undressing women on X.
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Tragic Carpet Visual Theatre @tragiccarpet.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
📣 Introducing the Nosferatu team... @mslizstrange.bsky.social - Social Media Support Liz is an Edinburgh based actor, physical theatre maker and facilitator. Her experience and interest in visual, participatory and interactive theatre has lead her to channel her skills into social media support...
Image of Liz Strange sitting on a staircase,  hands clasped, looking at the camera. She is a white woman with dark brown cropped hair. She is wearing a grey top, jeans and glasses.
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Framework Theatre Company @frameworktc.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
We’re so excited to have ‘Witchy Slag Gals’ performed at our Framework Festival 2025 scratch! 🎪 Set in the kitchen of a fourth-floor tenement flat in Edinburgh, ‘Witchy Slag Gals’ is a thrilling comedy-horror written by Rose Murray.
Blurry image from Framework Festival 2024 with orange filter. Text contains information about the casting call featured in caption.
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A Play, A Pie and A Pint @playpiepint.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Well done to The Brown Doll team for opening today! Want a bit more? Join us on Wed, 30 April for a free post show-discussion💬 Hosted by Brian Logan, our Artistic Director, this panel features writer Cilla Silvia, along with cast members Sharan Atwal and Rachel Ogilvy. ➡️ bit.ly/PPPTheBrownD...
A group picture of the creative team The Brown Doll.
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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Kinda fascinating seeing everyone lose their shit over Kneecap. Calls from on high to ban them, debates over whether they mean what they say, heads exploding over how they could be so provocative. People. May I introduce you to something called 'rap music'
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Catriona MacLeod @thatcatmacleod.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I can’t go to this wonderful show this week, but I wanted to support the team bringing this important story to the stage. _and friends will buy two tickets and give them away. Shoot us a message with the date of your choice and your email address. We’ll get your ticket + email you the confirmation.
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Framework Theatre Company @frameworktc.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Introducing the writers for our Framework Festival scratch event - Erin Boulter & Rose Murray! 🎪 ⏰ If you fancy directing one of the script excerpts - the deadline to apply is tomorrow @ 10am! Be sure to visit our website for more info: www.frameworktheatre.com/work-with-us
Headshots of the two writers (Erin and Rose) with a picture from Framework Festival 2024 in the background, with an orange filter.
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 22/04/2025
This Earth Day, we're looking back at what really happens to your used clothing. This is fashion's last stop, where your used clothing harms ecosystems, pollutes the environment, and drives often dangerous markets. Read more here ⤵️
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'Stop Sending These Stained Clothes': Fast Fashion Is Destroying These Cities— and Lives
See fashion's last stop, the places where your used clothing is harming ecosystems, polluting the environment, and driving often-dangerous markets.
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Remember when I quit the Labour Party years ago and said it was institutionally transphobic and people told me that it wasn’t, the problem was just Rosie Duffield, and that I should stay and fight? Well, well, well.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 21/04/2025
It's been 51 days since ANY humanitarian aid has entered Gaza. Israeli Minister of Defense Katz has said: "Israel’s policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza."   This is a war crime.   We must end our complicity. NO more military aid for Netanyahu's war machine.
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Youth Theatre Arts Scotland @ytartsscot.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Greenock's @thebeaconarts.bsky.social Young Company are looking for a writer to collaborate with them and create a new work in 2025 ytas.org.uk/opportunitie... (deadline - 28 Apr 2025)
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Beacon Arts Centre: Beacon Young Company Create - Writer - YTAS
Beacon Art Centre's Young Company, invite writers to get in touch to pitch their portfolio, to create new work in 2025 with their Young People.
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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
After everything feminists fought so hard for, we are now legally reduced to and defined by biology. A win for project 2025 and MAGA fascism www.thenational.scot/news/2509385...
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Supreme Court rules sex is biological in victory for gender critical feminists
THE Supreme Court has ruled that women are defined by biology in a landmark judgment which deals a blow to transgender campaigners.
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Catriona MacLeod @thatcatmacleod.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We had another absolutely jam packed _and friends scratch night on Sunday, curated by Hacks and featuring some brilliant artists. Thank you to our community for showing up consistently and generously - we paid our artists a fair wage thanks to ticket sales & will be announcing our next event soon!
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Catriona MacLeod @thatcatmacleod.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Shout out to ambitious plays that deserve a running time of 2.5 hours but are forced into 55 minutes because that’s the only format available.
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Joyce McMillan @joycemcm.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Review at Scotsman Arts of Jennifer Adam's Ivor, opening at the Traverse Theatre today - the last of this season's A Play, A Pie and A Pint dramas to transfer to Edinburgh. Also an unexpected evening at The Studio last week, revisiting Hamlet with Ridiculusmus Theatre & Lung Ha's Theatre Company.
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Theatre reviews: Ivor | Alas Poor Yorick
Climate change, the ethics of activism and empty nest syndrome make for a potent mix in Ivor, writes Joyce McMillan
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A Play, A Pie and A Pint @playpiepint.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Jocasta is here, ready to tell her story... 🏛️Jocasta, Oedipus's mother, now stands at the gates of the Underworld, seeking safe passage from the Gods. But the fee? Her version of the Greek tragedy we all think we know. See this darkly funny drama until this Sat 19 Apr at Òran Mór. 📸 Tommy GKW
Jocasta, dressed in blue greek-style rope, is on stage. She looks she is telling a story with a painful facial expression on her face.
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Solar Bear @thesolarbear.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
✨ We are SO excited that our INCREDIBLE Deaf Youth Theatre will be performing at @traversetheatre.bsky.social as part of Positive Stories for Negative Times — produced by our friends @wonderfools.org 🎭💥
Bright, colourful graphic promoting Deaf Youth Theatre (DYT) as part of 'Positive Stories for Negative Times' Season 4 (2024/25). The large text reads 'DYT - Deaf Youth Theatre' in bold pink, yellow and blue. Below, there are playful red illustrations of a cat playing electric guitar and a frog holding a clapperboard, surrounded by creative equipment like a microphone, laptop, camera and lighting. Logos for Wonder Fools (the producers) and Traverse Theatre (in association) appear in the corner.
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Jen Bites @jenbitespeople.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I saw someone suggesting that this is a good thing as it means theatres must be producing more slowly, more intentionally, with better resources. I've spent the rest of the day doing some weird laughcrysnort thing every time I think about that.
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 13/04/2025
In this #OpEd, a youth climate activist talks about how the climate movement’s message often fails to land with workers.
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I’m a Climate Organizer. Yes, I’m Proud My Dad’s an Airline Pilot
Climate activists and workers don’t have to be pitted against each other.
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A Play, A Pie and A Pint @playpiepint.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
📣 CAST ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 We're delighted to reveal the cast of #TheBrownDoll, a new drama by West End star Cilla Silvia. ⭐ Farah Ahmed ⭐ Sharan Atwal ⭐ Rachel Ogilvy ⭐ Mehren Yar
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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 11/04/2025
Singin’ in the Rain was released in theaters on this day in 1952 ☔️
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Catriona MacLeod @thatcatmacleod.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This and being able to afford groceries. youtu.be/-e_IuYgvdf8?...
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The Corrs - Breathless [HD] - Official Music Video
YouTube video by The Corrs (official)
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Allan Wilson @allanbw2.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Encouraged by Imogen Stirling’s comments at the @summerhallarts.bsky.social launch this morning: “By putting artists at the heart of everything we do, we are building a dynamic and inclusive cultural landscape in Edinburgh and beyond.” www.summerhallarts.co.uk
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Tron Theatre @trontheatre.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Take a look inside the rehearsal rooms for Studio3! Our team of 3 actors and 3 directors are working in tandem to rehearse our mini rep season of one act plays: ☀️ Alright Sunshine by Isla Cowan 🇬🇧 FLEG by Meghan Tyler 🍰 Fruitcake by Frances Poet STUDIO3 (26 Apr - 17 May) ➡️ www.tron.co.uk/whats-on/
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Catriona MacLeod @thatcatmacleod.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
THIS SUNDAY You coming?
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Catriona MacLeod @thatcatmacleod.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
You’ve got three more chances to see Ivor at PPP before it heads to Edinburgh for a sold out run. Get it while you can!
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Catriona MacLeod @thatcatmacleod.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Absolutely buzzing to bring “Ivor” to @playpiepint.bsky.social and @traversetheatre.bsky.social - this play is stunning and this cast are sublime. Not enough superlatives to describe it all. Come along and see for yourself!
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Catriona MacLeod @thatcatmacleod.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Cory Booker’s filibuster was longer than most of my relationships.
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Jeanna Kadlec @jeannakadlec.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
you know whose music has aged like fine wine enya
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes
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Youth Theatre Arts Scotland @ytartsscot.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland @rcsofficial.bsky.social are running an Introduction to Dramatherapy intensive weekend course on 5 – 6 April 2025 ytas.org.uk/events/intro...
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Tron Theatre @trontheatre.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
📣 OUTSIDE EYES 2025 (SPRING) - ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT Our annual scratch night features of selection of brand-new ideas from theatre-makers and live artists to an audience keen to see the boldest new performances Glasgow has to offer. All tickets £7.50 ➡️ www.tron.co.uk/shows/outside-eyes-4
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/03/2025
This is what the opposition did in the Hungary Parliament when they passed the Pride ban. May we have congresspeople with an ounce of the courage.
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A Play, A Pie and A Pint @playpiepint.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Curious to learn more about 𝙄𝙑𝙊𝙍 and the creative minds behind it? 🎭 Join us after the show on Weds, 9 Apr for a post-show panel with the director, playwright, and full cast — and yes, it’s included in your ticket! 🎫 Let’s talk the play, the #planet, and the strange truths we live with... 🌍
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Maria MacDonell @mariamacdonell.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
📣 Introducing the ‘LIFE’ tour dates & venues! LIFE is set in a drawing class. You can draw or doodle during the performance or simply watch the story emerge. There are four onstage tickets seated at easels. All materials provided ✍️ 🎟️ We’d love for you to join us: linktr.ee/lifescottish...
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Catriona MacLeod @thatcatmacleod.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
In the creative industries, we all know that getting the job is only half of the work.    Room for Therapy _and friends is offering free group therapy sessions for the creative industries. 1/3 #therapy #creativity #scottishtheatre #scottishfilm #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealth #resources
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God Is A Tulpa @kristyclueless.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Clown meme:
Women are cringe
Empathy is cringe 
I've made hating everything and everyone my entire personality 
There's a male loneliness epidemic
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