Barry Brett-McStay
@bazmcstay
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Actor. Writer. Published by @ConcordUKShows . Reps: Hilary Gagan & @TALLAgent . Co-host @worstfoot . 📸 @MCarloPhoto . he/him 🇮🇪🏳️🌈
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This is Breeding. My play about a gay couple & their social worker, the road to adoption, queer parenthood & how far you would go to build your perfect family. Runs til April 14th
@KingsHeadThtr
. Look at this trailer & the reviews. I’m so proud. Book now:
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Exactly 1 year ago I was in Guys hospital & had nearly half my right lung removed to extract a carcinoid tumour. I was very scared & sad.
Today I perform two shows charging round
@dwtimefracture
before an evening with my love
@mbrettuk
. I’m excited, happy & healthy.
#ThankYouNHS
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If we all get told to stay indoors, if theatres close, if if if... trying to think of something useful and creative and exciting to do. Write a monologue a day, get a different actor to live stream it that night? Maybe? Would anyone watch / Wanna be involved?
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Drama schools: resolution for the next couple of years in helping renew the industry post-Covid - hire new writers to write showcase shows. Actors get to train on genuinely new writing, gain real workshop experience, writers earn a wage and have their work showcased too.
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Oh! My! Doctor! Absolutely lost it at the end of
@StaceyDooley
&
@keviclifton
's tango on
@bbcstrictly
, felt very emotional watching her rock it as Jodie W & taking the 'man's' role brought the tears. Good tears. Smiles & tears. Fave dance of
#strictly2018
so far. 10 for me.
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- just been rewatching this:
@StaceyDooley
, first week, falling in love with dancing, not quite believing she's doing all this! Look at her now! Every week I adore watching her & the incredible
@keviclifton
exceed themselves again & again. Go win it!
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It's my 35th birthday today. I saw no friends or family, and am unemployed with little prospect of my industry returning any time soon. The neighbours downstairs had friends over & the PM's special advisor didn't get sacked for flouting these fucking rules. Furious.
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A nervous, proud, expectant gay dad here. So lucky to be working with a brilliant team on bringing my new baby to the stage, especially
@GS_Prods
and
@matthewdirects
. And thanks
@KingsHeadThtr
&
@TomRatcliffe15
for taking the chance.
🐣 JUST ANNOUNCED 🍼
Zeb & Eoin have met, kissed, fallen in love, moved in, got married - what’s next?
BREEDING is a funny, moving drama about parenthood, queer families & enduring love 👨👨👦
A
@GS_Prods
in association with
@MarkGatiss
.
19 Apr - 7 May
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Happy International Non-Binary People's Day. We all have the right to be who we are without judgement or prejudice, in all our fluid, complex, brilliant ways. Thank you to all my gorgeous enby friends who live so proudly and fearlessly, you are inspirational.
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@GraemeGarden1
So terribly sad, Graeme. Clue has been one of the greatest pleasures of my life and I can only imagine what it must feel like to lose your friend and partner in comedy crime. Thankful for the joy he brought so many fans like myself. Stay well. x
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I’ve had a rubbish year, as many of us have. But today I was sent my copies of my actual play in an actual book. This is my first play to be individually published and I’m really quite emotional. Thank you
@CoulCharlie
& all the team at
@ConcordUKShows
.
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I saw
@QueenWillRock
and
@adamlambert
tonight with my beautiful husband
@mbrettuk
. I can’t quite express my emotions yet. But I wanted to mark the date. I’m so happy.
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Anyone wondering, I am out of hospital, safely back home with Mikey, minus 45% of a lung but plus a large bag of painkillers. Christmas R&R starts now. Thanks for all the nice messages x
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I’m 37 today. A year for every page of the Sue Gray report. Spending it quietly - no parties! - with the man I love.
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Ok. My play got a 5 star review based on its first preview last night. I mayyyyyyy try be a bit more chill now.
Honestly floored by what the actors and creative team have managed to create in no time at all. Come see us.
“rich and heart-stirring … a space odyssey that deserves a universe of stars"
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
THE FIRST
VAULT Festival 2020
REVIEW :
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Sooooo...I guess I’m an award-winning writer now. That’s kinda awesome. Thank you all the
@VespertilioPlay
team,
@VAULTFestival
especially
@Gilltopia
. I’m a bit proud.
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If you’re standing up for statues of racists while calling anti-racist demonstrators and supporters of systemic reform your enemy, maybe you’re not on the right side of history.
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Dude. Invest in communities. If we need MORE police, we are only treating symptoms.
Anti-social behaviour is ruining people’s lives. We need to get serious about tackling it.
Labour would put more police on our streets and support communities with a Victims’ Law.
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When I was young, bookshops were my favourite place to hide and explore. Seeing a book of mine displayed like this is quite emotional. Thank you
@Foyles
@KingsHeadThtr
@GS_Prods
and
@ConcordUKShows
for making a little bookworms dream come true.
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As if I could hate this government even more. This ceaseless picking on a minority is reprehensible.
For those at the back: Trans rights are human rights, trans women are women, trans men are men & if that REALLY bothers you, then you're the problem, not them.
'We shouldn't be bullied into believing people can be any sex they want to be, they can't. A man is a man and a woman is a woman', says Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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I guess we’re expecting again…
So excited to be bringing back Breeding - and to the new Kings Head theatre space as well!
"We're not the new normal, we're the new f**cking extraordinary"
★★★★★ hit Breeding returns! Zeb & Eoin met, kissed, fell in love, moved in, got married... what’s next? A funny, moving drama about parenthood, queer families & enduring love.
Book at
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As one show ends, what producers wanna talk to me about my next play? Turns out, I can write a bit.
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I applaud this Advert. More of the same. But I also cannot abide companies who avoid their civic duty using the rainbow to cloak themselves in the warm glow of social conscience. So thank you Starbucks - now pay your fucking taxes.
Introducing the winner of this year’s Diversity in Advertising Award.
@StarbucksUK
are raising awareness and much needed funds for
@mermaids_gender
🏳️🌈 We encourage you to say your name proudly
#WhatsYourName
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#worldtheatreday2023
and coincidentally the first day of rehearsal for Breeding - coming to
@KingsHeadThtr
in April. You’ll get to meet the cast veryyyyyyy soon!
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Breeding
@KingsHeadThtr
done. So much love for my onstage family. Til we meet again.
@ItsAChallenger
@dannicholson_1
❤️
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@WAPtheatre
Not stupid. Grief is strange. I've still not deleted the number of a friend who committed suicide 13 years ago. Unfriending him on FB took weeks of build-up. People inhabit our lives in such dextrous, subtle little ways. Don't ever resent that they are so nimble. Much love x
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Had a lovely, only mildly stressful birthday evening escaping from
@221B
#thegameisnow
with my partner in marriage and crime
@mbrettuk
! Congrats to the whole team,
@Markgatiss
et al for creating such a dynamic, challenge and Holmesian experience!
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It’s my birthday and now I’m 38 I fear I may never look this handsome and gay again.
Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband
@bazmcstay
- you'd struggle to find a kinder, more loving and more talented man!
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If The Sun is freaking out about drag queens reading stories to kids, wait til they hear about panto.
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Thanks
@ConcordUKShows
for inviting me along to
@royalcourt
bookshop today to sign some copies of Breeding and Vespertilio, my two book babies! Pop along and get a signed copy! Or you can buy em unsigned online at
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Very damn excited and proud. Breeding is being published by the lovely people at Samuel French. So you can come see the show and pick up a script - and if you can’t see the show, you can still read it. Aren’t books good?
We're delighted to publish
@bazmcstay
's Breeding. Shortlisted for
@theatre503
Playwriting Award, the play is a funny, moving drama about parenthood, queer families & enduring love. Buy the script and catch the show at
@KingsHeadThtr
: .
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This Irish Twitter account doing a stellar job today, sharing pig-related terms.
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A few thoughts. Thanks to everyone who helped make Breeding. And here's hoping we can keep making the case for accessible theatre in a hostile environment which seems primed against it right now.
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Rocking the trademark
@NathanielJHall
pose after a stroll through Oxleas Woods. Very grateful to have spent a couple of days working and hanging with this man, one of the finest artists and kindest souls I know.
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First run in 4 months. First run since I had a chunk of my lung hacked out. Cautiously happy with it.
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Cast was announced today for a show I went up for. During the audition, director exclaimed “I love my job!” in response to work I did. Sometimes we smash it & still aren’t cast. Rejection sucks. But it’s not always cos we sucked. What’s your best compliment in a “failed” casting?
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It’s been a long couple of months. A long week. A long day. Thank you to everyone who came to see The First this week. More importantly thank you to everyone who helped make it. I’ve never felt more scared about my writing, but I’m very grateful for their talent and effort. Phew.
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Today I finished Couch to 5k for the second time. Back running 30mins nonstop 3 times a week now. Take that, half-a-lung!
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Ok. Producers, my loves, I have a bunch of existing plays that I really wanna get made. I’m a gay Irish playwright, award winning and multi-longlisted for various awards. Particular fondness for queer stories, tales of home & hope amid despair.
Let’s make theatre.
#OVConnect
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So Breeding is open
@KingsHeadThtr
, we’ve had such lovely audiences and now some nice starry reviews. We are only on til 7th May so if you’re thinking “I should see it”, do book. I’m having a gorgeous time with it and enjoying sharing this story so much.
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Whew. That show tonight - that show, that audience - that was a proper thing. I felt blessed to work in theatre. Thanks everyone who came and shared it.
I’ll miss Breeding badly when we close on Sunday.
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We are auditioning for an actor, black male 30s - full breakdown below. Last big push, please share this around, have a read and get in touch if you think it’s you!
We're auditioning for a male identifying actor to play the roles of SIMEON / MARCUS
THE FIRST
@VAULTFestival
11th-16th February 🚀
Please share / retweet & recommend!
#Auditions
#TheFirstPlay
#CastingCall
#Space
#Mars
#VAULTFestival
#RT
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Wrote 6 pages today. A tv idea I’ve had for ages. Maybe the news yesterday helped. And it’s got 3 naked men in it already. Cos there’s not enough queers on telly.
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Look what arrived! Thank you
@ConcordUKShows
. You can buy your own copy of the script for Breeding here:
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At
@KingsHeadThtr
for rehearsals today and look! We’ve got posters up and flyers aplenty for
#BreedingThePlay
Tix:
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@VictoriaCoren
My husband said to me "...or 1st of January 2001 if you're a pedant" when we watched last night. I said "this is Only Connect. Victoria will already be receiving tweets about it!"
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A lovely little thing to see my married name in the credits of
#countmagnus
. Also shoutout to Joseph “The Shape” Martin as you shall henceforth be known
@suddenlyjoseph
!
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If I may - HIRE THIS GORGEOUS TALENTED HUMAN!
Introducing
@JoshuaOR
Joshua played Josh in 'Vespertilio' winning Show of the Week at
@VAULTFestival
and had a live recording at
@KingsHeadThtr
gain an OnComm nomination!
He gained an Offie nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role as Terence Carleton in 'Lord Dismiss Us'
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Do have a watch, won’t you?
And our next stream will be at 7.30pm on Thursday 26th March, and it's a new monologue called CAPTAIN CORELLI, written by
@bazmcstay
, directed by
@kylerosslondon
& performed by
@realjamesfarley
. Tune in then!
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Ahead of Breeding's 1st preview tonight
@KingsHeadThtr
, lots of love & thanks to
@rjs_ld
@JulianStarr15
@cecicalf
@carriecroft_
@blemmefatale
& Sophy Leys Johnston for all their work over the design, get-in & tech period. It's lovely playing in the space they've crafted & built.
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Opening my play tonight which is thrilling, had a rejection email for a thing that was looking exciting. The universe really does know how to do balance, eh?
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I don’t ever tweet about shows at the interval. And you don’t need me to tell you what you all already know anyway.
But
@mincemeatlive
is fucking astounding.
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Not been on public transport since November. But I’m on my way to get my first jab.
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No, by all means, if literally every prize, opportunity and other contact could reject me all within a couple hours on the same day, that would be fucking ace. Thanks dudes.
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Got back to
@mincemeatlive
again last night and holy moly, god it’s brilliant in its West End incarnation. Please go see it. Kudos and wonder and awe to all the
@spitlip
gang, especially lolloping wonder
@DaveyCumming
x
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Yes, it seems Barbie is event cinema. Therefore I’m going to give it a couple of weeks for the fuss to die down so I can enjoy it as it was meant to be - in an otherwise empty theatre where I can be alone with my anxiety and popcorn.
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Suddenly understand why Among Us has taken off in 2020. It’s a game about paranoid people trapped indoors trying to muddle through and get shit done all while a deadly evil walks among them, causing fear and conspiracy theories to spread.
You’re welcome,
@johnneh
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I mean, the song is just called ‘The Impossible Dream’ so if you can’t even advertise it properly that don’t exactly bode well for the production...
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Happy
#PrideInLondon
from
@mbrettuk
and me. It’s an increasingly scary time to be queer (again…) and it’s important to be as proud and loud as we can be!
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Happy 7th wedding anniversary, my darling, smiling, beautiful
@mbrettuk
- the best thing in my life. 🏳️🌈❤️
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So proud of my husband
@mbrettuk
for bringing the
#christmasaurus
to life tonight. Congrats to
@TomFletcher
@CarrieHFletcher
@mcflyharry
@MrsGiFletcher
@mattjwillis
@derekbond
, Emma, Luisa & the whole ensemble & team. A festive, visual & musical treat from a talented gang.
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I won’t lie. I want to shout about myself for
#OVConnect
. But I also feel completely weighed down by hopelessness and stasis right now.
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My chest is pounding. My throat is clenching. Seeing images of the
#DublinRiots
from overseas, of the home I love being burned by so-called “patriots” and fascists, has hit me deeply. Stay safe, friends.
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A snapshot of our 5⭐️ reviews for Breeding
@KingsHeadThtr
- thanks
@advsintheatre
@TheatreNewsWeb
@YoungishPers
&
@theartsdispatch
. We run til 14th April and want as many folks as possible to see it. It's a hit - don't just take my word for it. 😉
Tix:
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I've been lucky to have people support me & my work, so: if you're an early-career playwright, interested in new work & wanna see Breeding
@KingsHeadThtr
, drop me a line here. I'll sort out up to 3 free tix for people & we can have a post-show chat too.
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Boris is going to need to take a fucking gap year in Kiev to fix this mess.
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Something strangely moving about knowing that that is the first Irish gold medal commentary for legendary commentator George Hamilton, the voice of so many iconic Irish sporting moments. 🥇🇮🇪
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@drivetimerte
Yeah, cos when I feel vain I decide to tackle a humanitarian project my government is failing to deal with. Seriously guys...
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Finally received my copy of Oath, a gorgeous game from
@LederGames
- the art and design is stunning, the gameplay is tricky and intertwined in the best ways, and it feels like you’re telling a heck of a story as you play.
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Apropos of nothing, I am an Irish writer with three Irish films, for Irish actors, just dying to be produced... 🧐
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@Brainmage
It's a classic - but ALL tv detective shows take place in the same universe, and the final episode of Law & Order will be them realising that EVERY MURDER THEY'VE EVER FACED was done by Jessica Fletcher.
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I needed a new pinned tweet so here: you can buy a copy of my play
@VespertilioPlay
from
@ConcordUKShows
at this link. 2M, 1hr, a gay love story, themes of loneliness and connection. Featuring some great duologues and monologues for showcases 😉
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I had some good health news today. Christ, the feeling of a weight lifting is palpable.
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As it's
#DoctorWho60
, dug out a photo of me on the set of one of the amazing worlds within
@dwtimefracture
. Playing a tiny part in the
#Whoniverse
as Sgt Robert Dudley & a bloomin' Cyberman is still my favourite job I've ever had and an honour I'll keep close to my hearts 💙💙
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- Dublin pals! Who is coming to see
@VespertilioPlay
at
@smockalley
? We are running 17th to 22nd September, I'm very proud of this piece and the two actors are stunning. Come along!
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My gorgeous castmates - come see us in Breeding from 21st March.
✨Cast announced for Breeding!
@bazmcstay
&
@dannicholson_1
will reprise their roles as ‘Eoin’ and ‘Zeb', joined by
#Offie
-award winning
@MsNeMay
as ‘Beth’.
We loved this show so much when it premiered in 2023 - we named a stair after it.
From 21 Mar >
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Still, 2 days later, on a total high from seeing Queen + Adam Lambert with
@mbrettuk
. That band. Freddie. The music. Song after song. The beauty, love, camp & queerness of the show. I have rarely, ever, been happier. It meant so very much to me. A lifelong dream. A kind of magic.
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So
@VespertilioPlay
has been one of the joys of my life. Thanks to
@VAULTFestival
&
@Gilltopia
for the platform to make this special show,
@patrick_barkham
&
@_BCT_
for the inspiration, and the whole cast and crew who know how in awe of them I am. It’s just the start... 🦇🏳️🌈
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My emotions are whirling during this final weekend of
@VAULTFestival
in those damp, dark, magical tunnels. The festival has inspired me, helped shape me as an artist, provided me with so many nights of joy, so many chances, platforms & partnerships. May it continue.
#savevault
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So often when people commit suicide people react with surprise. With 'they seemed in such good spirits'. We only see the signs in retrospect. We wish they had said something.
She's said something. And yet. And yet. And yet.
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To every idiot invoking Blitz fucking Spirit & moaning cos the pubs weren’t closed during the war - those bombs weren’t being transmitted by handshakes, and we don’t have an air raid siren ready for when someone is about to sneeze, you Marmite-brained gammony space-hoppers.
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No it isn't.
Last surviving gaslit cinema in world to reopen in Leeds
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Hello lovely new followers and thanks everyone for seeming so supportive of the isolation theatre online idea (working title........) - I'll give it some proper thought the next couple of days and see what can come of it.
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- it's our final show of Breeding today. A lovely Sunday matinee. I'm not quite ready to put into words how I feel about this enriching experience, but I'd love it to be a really good last hurrah. Grab a ticket if you can.
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2022. Feels like a year of missed chances. But I saw it out at the top of London with the man I love and with people around us - the world still turns, I am still here, 2023 better be ready.
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My play
@VespertilioPlay
gets a lovely preview in the
@guardian
. Discover why ‘bats are the gayest thing ever’ and then book to come see us
@VAULTFestival
. We open on Wednesday.
#theatre
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Well this made my day.
Hurry to see the completely beguiling, funny & moving
@VespertilioPlay
at
@thevaultsuk
. Only three more shows! Congratulations to
@JoshuaOR
@bloodyellbazza
@bazmcstay
@lucypapoosky
& whole team. Love, loneliness and the Greater Mouse-Eared bat. Charming.
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Gosh I’m enjoying doing this show. Tonight’s audience were superb too. Not many performances left now…
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The bats are back. A new production of VESPERTILIO, filmed for broadcast. So excited to be part of an amazing season of Plays On Film for
@KingsHeadThtr
Well here we are!
We are immensely proud to present our new production of VESPERTILIO as part of
@KingsHeadThtr
KHTV Season.
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So who wants to help me make a feature film where I get to go away with a bunch of my friends and have a lovely time like in Wine Country? I’ll write the script, I’ll get the actors, just need a director Nd lots of money. Easy...
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With 600 cancelled
@VAULTFestival
shows alongside mine, I want to help. If you’re a writer who lost a show, who knows my work & thinks my opinion might be useful, DM me. I’ve a bit of time this month to read max 5 scripts & offer notes, should I think they’d be helpful. 1/2
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