Reposted by Toby SchmitzSimon Moore @simonmoore.bsky.social · 23/07/2025@tobyschmitz.bsky.social is one of those guests who makes you laugh, think & want to re-read Hamlet. Actor, playwright, novelist, Shakespeare tragic, Stoppard obsessive, don’t miss him in Grief is the Thing with Feathers at Belvoir. 🎧 bit.ly/InCon200sbit.lyToby Schmitz: The play's the thingIn Conversation · Episode 063
Toby Schmitz @tobyschmitz.bsky.social · 07/06/2025In trying not to rubberneck a current race to the bottom I am reminded of a Martin Amis phrase: ‘This is species shame.’ 021
Toby Schmitz @tobyschmitz.bsky.social · 24/05/2025‘The Empress Murders is a violent book: nobody here is dispatched with a nip of arsenic in their camomile tea.’ #TheEmpressMurders 021
Toby Schmitz @tobyschmitz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025‘Brilliant, bonkers and bloody - The Empress Murders is what you get when you let a mischievous thespian schooled in Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, and Agatha Christie loose on the crime genre.’ #TheEmpressMurders www.smh.com.au/culture/book...smh.com.auPrepare to be discombobulated by this bonkers crime caperAustralian actor and playwright Toby Schmitz has made an outlandish excursion into the crime genre. 072
Toby Schmitz @tobyschmitz.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Melbourne cats: I’m going to be talking about my debut novel at Readings in Carlton this Thursday night at 6pm (and signing books if that floats your boat.) Do come. @ReadingsBooks #TheEmpressMurders 🚢🏴☠️ readings.com.au/events/toby-sc…readings.com.au 151
Toby Schmitz @tobyschmitz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025You’ve made my day. Thank you, Molly. Welcome aboard. 080
Toby Schmitz @tobyschmitz.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Ahoy, blue sky miners. My book is coming out soon. It’s a thriller. Though we all get our thrills in different ways… 🚢 You can pre-order it here: www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/... #TheEmpressMurders 3135
Toby Schmitz @tobyschmitz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025‘To resist was fatal, and it was impossible to fly.’ (Edward Gibbon) www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/... 161
Toby Schmitz @tobyschmitz.bsky.social · 01/02/2025A gentle reminder that the ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ soundtrack is a gift of gentle brilliance. A balm. 020
Toby Schmitz @tobyschmitz.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Skeleton Crew Episode I: Opening sequence giving ‘Black Sails’ on a flashback level. One of those school jackets, please, Santa? Out-goons Goonies. I’m so in. 3110
Toby Schmitz @tobyschmitz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Agent emails for ‘MAN’ in car commercial. Do you drive? No. All good, they say they can work around that. Do you have, or can you grow, stubble by tomorrow? No. All good, they just want you to know it’s now their unsleeping desire that you never work in this or any other town again. 060
Toby Schmitz @tobyschmitz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Sydney likes to forget it rains. River-streets Fed by unsuited gutters and sopping pedestrians Nary an umbrella, shrugging up in water Pelting straight down, feining surprise. 1142
Toby Schmitz @tobyschmitz.bsky.social · 28/12/2023For me Roger McGough’s a poet who fizzes. And you won’t find the bugger for free online. I’ll always regret not smuggling his lean editions out my parents’ bookcase. When I left. Coz they don’t come in often. 041
Reposted by Toby SchmitzMark Humphries @markhumphries.bsky.social · 23/12/2023Not quite sure how or why this has happened but I’m pleased to say ABC News will be airing a half-hour of ‘The Best of Mark Humphries’ on Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve. 1183
Toby Schmitz @tobyschmitz.bsky.social · 28/11/2023I’d forgotten about ‘Heartbeats’ by José González. How does that happen? Such beauty slipping your mind. I remember now of course listening to it looped staring at the skirting boards, like I’m doing now. 080
