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Writeups.org @writeups.org · 12/11/2025

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You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out thatwhat a country values can change overtime. Sometimes, though, there's a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you've actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word - but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass - and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island - even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.

Tommo Fowler @tommofowler.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I’m so flippin proud of this production, which has been made by a team of such ambition, rigour and expansive thinking – AND it’s really funny! only on until Saturday, so get yourself a ticket ASAP for some “pure theatrical alchemy”

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 29/05/2025

Call out for writers with lived experience of homelessness or poverty to submit monologues for a new anthology to highlight the complexity of the experiences of homelessness and poverty – struggles, resilience, hope, humour. Please share :) mtos.cardboardcitizens.org.uk/anthology/

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Tommo Fowler @tommofowler.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

come hang out and think about how plays can be small but also big!

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Graeae Theatre Company @graeaetheatre.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

We have released a statement on the impact of recent proposed policy changes & benefits reform within the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper. graeae.org/resource/gra... Our community cannot & should not take this further assault on civil liberties!

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Touretteshero @touretteshero.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4

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Tommo Fowler @tommofowler.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

fabulous news! to celebrate Joe’s excellence, here’s one of my fave ever production photos, from his play The Legend of Ned Ludd last year @liveveryplay.bsky.social : (courtesy of Marc Brenner)

Reuben Johnson silhouetted in front of orange strip lights, walking across a stage covered in soil. From The Legend of Ned Ludd by Joe Ward Munrow. Photo © Marc Brenner.

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Tommo Fowler @tommofowler.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

in a world of chaos and uncertainty, it’s reassuring that the Spectator’s take on Adolescence is precisely as you’d expect: reactionary, and arguably just misunderstanding the programme – which is far more nuanced than this would suggest. thank god for a bit of stability eh

A screenshot of an article, which begins: “At the risk of sounding heartless, it looks as if toxic masculinity is the new sexual abuse: the inevitable answer to why a character in a film, book or TV drama appears inexplicably unhappy, aggressive or damaged.”

It then proceeds to argue that Adolescence hammers home the malign effect of toxic masculinity too much, and – broadly – that we should stop going on about it all the time.

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Tommo Fowler @tommofowler.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

as the government dismantles PIP, what a gift this week to see the launch of @dadafest.bsky.social’s RAGE exhibition at @liveveryplay.bsky.social, and spend today at @graeaetheatre.bsky.social’s Beyond showcase for disabled artists. Raucous, tender, and full of fire - congrats to all.

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Freelancers Make Theatre Work @freelancersmake.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

👏 Loving this! The Royal Court is shining a light on the overlooked talent of front-of-house teams with a special scratch night dedicated to their creative work. 🎭✨ 🎟️ More here: www.thestage.co.uk/news/news/lo... #Theatre #WeAreCreative #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

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London's Royal Court Theatre spotlights in-house talent with scratch night

The Royal Court in London is to shine a light on the overlooked talent of front-of-house teams, with a scratch night dedicated to their creative work

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Eve Leigh @eevlee.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Best thing anyone’s said to me about the current emergencies. “Writing matters because someone needs to write the truth of our times, because we will be told it didn’t happen.” @csvich.bsky.social

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Anna Jordan @annaruthjordan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

@mynextdraft.bsky.social is here and all #theatre and #playwright peeps should follow them !

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Lisa Carroll @lisa-carroll.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I currently have two remaining spaces for script consultation & feedback in February. Get in touch on my website for more info! If you're getting ready to submit to a prize (e.g. Women's Playwriting Prize 👀 ) please leave plenty of time to rewrite and implement your feedback!

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Tommo Fowler @tommofowler.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

seeing four shows this weekend, starting (somewhat surprisingly) with the Strictly live tour! glorious, ridiculous, and I have to say far hornier than i was expecting – from judges in general, and the audience specifically for Nikita (fair enough tbh)

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Tommo Fowler @tommofowler.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Mariupol Drama at HOME is such a shot in the arm: testimony from a war zone, performed by those forced to flee their bombed theatre. Haunting, unflinching and brimming with the need to keep going, keep making the destruction tangible for audiences, and rebuild for the future. On until Sat.

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Mariupol Drama - HOME

Mariupol Drama is a poignant testimony from actors who were sheltering inside the Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine during the tragic events of March 2022.

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Tommo Fowler @tommofowler.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

hey this is fantastic news! great appointment – for writers, directors, audiences, everyone. really exciting stuff.

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Tommi Bryson @tommibryson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

ROLLING RESIDENCIES WINDOW 5 Final reminder! £4,000 of funding available for artists local to Sheffield Theatres to develop new ideas with support. Short application form! Deadline: midnight on Friday 10th January. shorturl.at/d9mLz

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Tommo Fowler @tommofowler.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

benefits to dating theatre critics: • plays you’d never otherwise see (for free)! • endless warm white wine at press nights (also free)! • crashingly nerdy production analysis whilst on nice dates = legit romance! negative: slagging off my enemies’ work in print would be ‘unethical’ apparently 😒

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Box of Tricks @boxoftrickstheatre.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

📝 Join us for our PlayMakers Takeover: our regular drop-in Culture Café, a Blood Beats mixer for LGBTQ+ writers, a movement workshop and our Accelerate Showcase from writers aged 35+. 🗓️ Sat 25 Jan at HOME Mcr 🎟️ Book Now >>> s.mtrbio.com/bhsowviqrs

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Matthew Xia @excalibah.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

New Design Award for emerging female designers: www.toldbyanidiot.org/the-naomi-wi...

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The Naomi Wilkinson Award for Stage Design 2025

Applications now open! Deadline 6th Jan.

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