Vinay Patel
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Writes scripts, feeds cats, tries not to fuck up that thing you love | Associate Playwright @royalcourt | (Contact me anywhere but here}
Joined February 2009
Part-time, full-hearted
.@royalcourt boss @mrdavebyrne has appointed four associate playwrights – including @RyanCalaisC and Mike Bartlett – in a move that will mean they become part of a "collective leadership" model and develop the venue’s artistic programme. Find out more 👉 https://t.co/B0204cmQi6
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These charming brothers are 17 years old! A slightly made up birthday since I don’t know for sure. Suspect this will be their last as a pair (which maybe they don’t mind since they don’t get on) but personally very grateful for every day
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Tweeting from my sickbed seems as good a time as any to post my Bluesky exit ramp… https://t.co/52utxmGz3d
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Genuinely one of the best moments of my life https://t.co/H8pp5SvkHm
It’s official...I’m back at the Bush after a short(ish) break from the world of theatre in Ealing 🌴 Thanks for breaking the news @VinayPatel
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In guest cat content, it’s @BushCatMarley and @Bush_Cat_Pirate! Long gone from @bushtheatre but still around and forever in our hearts
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It's coming! The PLAYWRIGHTS XMAS PARTY! 26th November, 7pm - midnight! @Royalcourt bar, London. ALL playwrights & screenwriters welcome! ALL levels of experience. Bring a pal or come alone and make new pals! Prize for best xmas jumper. PLS SHARE! #PlaywrightsXmas
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A great spread of plays here, from past to present. When I first started out in theatre, Jatinder got in touch to meet me, which we did in a Tara building mid-renovation. He let me know I was part of a long heritage of SA playwrights I had no idea about. Will always be grateful.
South Asian Asian Play Reading Group Returns 🌟 Earlier this week we announced 8 incredible plays featuring a line-up of very special guests at Tara Theatre for the next 8 weeks Now let's dive a little deeper into what you can expect at Play Reading Group this autumn THREAD 🧵
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Basically: it’s a play that terrifies me into incoherency of thought, but evokes an utter clarity of being. Glad it is here at the Court again.
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Got to talk about 4:48 w/ @NatashaTripney & wasn’t as articulate as I’d hoped to be, either personally or about the play’s context, but it was my intro to work that operated on your soul rather than mind/feelings. Not sure if I’ve ever understood it, but I absolutely *know* it
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Am excited about all of this but in particular the new Kandinsky, Joel Tan’s Scenes from a Repatriation which I finished at 3am & didn’t stop thinking about until morning &, of course, 4:48…a play that lodged itself into me a decade ago like a shard of ice & has never melted
DEC 24 – JUN 25 SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 From South Africa to Singapore, from Palestine and New York to the North East of England, join us for a new season of work from debut writers, international voices and bold collaborations. Book now: https://t.co/kwgteiUoHb
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"In shifting its form as it goes along yet retaining parts of the styles it’s already used, the production creates a palimpsest familiar to the displaced who know in their bones that the past is never dead" @VinayPatel on Mahabharata by @WhyNotTheatre
https://t.co/QtC6GpLeHA
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Review @ObsNewReview @guardian @susannahclapp of GIANT @royalcourt. ★★★★★ "Here in one evening is the case for the stage. An incendiary subject, an extraordinary debut play, a fleet production, top-notch acting. Everything on the wing." https://t.co/DxV9tqLSlR
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John Lithgow as Roald Dahl towers over Nicholas Hytner’s production of an extraordinary debut play; Morfydd Clark finds her voice in a Wesker revival; and a John Osborne staging is a step backward
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We are proud to announce the curators and contributors to Jhalak Review Autumn 24: Silence. In the face of unprocessable loss, and at a time when courageous voices are called upon more than ever, how can writing break the pervasive silence? Inside @thebookseller October 11th
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(Something oddly, no doubt accidentally, right about the grim decision of putting LaBeouf in your movie and making him a total scumbag)
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If this is Coppola’s last movie, he’s going out grasping for something that fully evades him and I think as an artist you can ultimately make peace with the attempt
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It’s a mess in so many ways though has a sort of Ed Wood earnestness to it? Not fully endearing but not cynical either
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Megalopolis is like watching a brain die in real time (not *entirely* pejorative)
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