Stephen Longstaffe
@SteveLongstaffe
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Happily acting and improvising away after retiring as a university lecturer in early modern English theatre.
Joined June 2011
RT @PlayersStPeter: Auditions for this year's production of scenes from the N-Town cycle are on Monday 18 and Thursday 28 August. Performan….
theplayersofstpeter.org.uk
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RT @dinosofos: We're kicking off Crossed Wires festival with a piece of audio history! Jarvis Cocker has recorded a special version of the….
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At Hampton Court yesterday, with Henry VIII's fool Will Summers.
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My best Shakespeare on the Spot so far, at the King's Arms Salford for the Greater Manchester Improvisation Festival on Saturday. In the misery pic I'm soliloquising about Julius Caesar's assassination - the audience suggestion was that a piano dropped on his head.
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So excited! Ten 'new' funny early modern plays. I got the weekend pass to see the lot. Proper jokes, generous comic humanity; the same characters, different situations. I'm cast as a grumpy farting old git. Bit of a failure of the imagination there, I feel, but hey. Come!.
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RIP. WSI really gripped my imagination as a theatre student, mostly via the Engineers of the Imagination handbook and the few videos I could find mid-80s. A pioneer vision blending visual arts, humour, ritual, performance and community.
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Co-founder of the Welfare State, a street theatre company that later moved on to community-related work
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RT @Warburg_News: 🃏 The Fool – A Card of New Beginnings. Happy April Fool's Day!. Today, we're sharing The Fool card from the Tarot de Mars….
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I love these 16th century grotesques!
The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel, 1565 - Flashbak
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This raised a chuckle - Plato's theory of Forms, applied to the LFC-PSG game: 'a smash-and-grab of such Platonic perfection that it belongs among the great thinker's higher realm of Ideals'.
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It's been around 45 years since I wrote and performed comedy sketches with @MikeHaskins11. Last night 'Lutwidge', in which Lewis Carroll (Steve Wallis, here) attempts to explain Jabberwocky to his publisher, won an award at Liverpool's Weird and Wonderful festival!
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It's about time for another victory lap for this academic work probing the beliefs of the Elizabethan clergyman Hugh Sexey. Still the most dontastic chapter title ever!.
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I was in one of these hugely enjoyable workshops last month. This epic (sit)-comedy, with up to ten different actors reading the same role, pushes all my clown/improvisor/early drama nerd buttons. Got my weekend pass for the May readings already!.
I’ve written ten plays for you to enjoy ! Full story here
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The @HighamHall brochure has just arrived, and I have to say this looks pretty cool. I've had a great time researching and choosing material. Now I get to teach it! Bookings via
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Dickens does Ben Jonson, @BeyondShakes.
Charles Dickens was born #OTD 1812. In July 1847 he performed in a benefit show at Manchester’s Theatre Royal with various members of his family and circle of friends. This rare playbill from our collections records the particulars. (1/2)
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RT @PiersatPenn: St. Hedwig calls out a nun who has a hedgehog "up her sleeve. " 🦔🥰. Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig XI 7
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On the train to the ThatThere for some silly clown stuff, we've just passed a Crewe arts venue called Chuffchuff. That's brightened my day!.
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Just writing about Beatles covers at the minute, so this really did make me laugh.
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RT @daraghcarville: Save Audio Drama at the BBC - Sign the Petition! via @UKChange.
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Save Audio Drama at the BBC
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A Yorkshire Tragedy links, @BeyondShakes !.
'Tudor psychedelia for £35 a night! Is this rescued Yorkshire pile Britain’s most thrilling holiday let?'
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