Eleanor Rhode
@elrhode
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Theatre Director. Out now: Mrs Wickham by Sarah Page @audible Next: A Midsummer Night’s Dream @RSC Rep’d by Mildred Yuan & Florence Hyde @UnitedAgents
London
Joined May 2009
I’ve been lucky enough to work on two projects now with #JohnnyFlynn and @elrhode and something *magic* happens when they collaborate. This film could be something really special but they need YOUR help…! #CODES #FilmFunding #ShortFilm #Kickstarter
https://t.co/vR9RbBPedF
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What if you had to kill a person to save the world?
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Oh my goodness, this is grim. Bristol Old Vic Theatre School ends undergraduate training over cost issues
thestage.co.uk
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School is to end its undergraduate training, citing "unprecedented funding challenges"
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If only his colleagues had all been young working class women, ideally with little job security, none of this would have happened.
BREAKING: Gregg Wallace says accusations against him come from 'middle-class women of a certain age' https://t.co/Ks77bnng3q
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Factcheck: Maternity pay has existed since 1911 & is essential for women to make informed, supported reproductive choices. It is also currently at a level where 71% of women worry 'a lot' about money during maternity leave and 35% of new mothers skip meals to afford to live.
NEW - Kemi Badenoch tells Times Radio that maternity pay has "gone too far." “We need to have more personal responsibility. There was a time when there wasn’t any maternity pay and people were having more babies.”
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A reminder. This is what brave looks like. Mme Pélicot leaving the Avignon courthouse yesterday.
This actually brought a tear to my eye. The applause for Giselle Pelicot outside the courtroom She is incredible
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I was a council scheme boy but I became upper class when I started shoplifting at Harrods. It just takes enterprise
"I grew up in a middle class family.. But I became working class when I was working in McDonalds" - Conservative party leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch
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In France ChatGPT is pronounced the same as 'Chat, j'ai pété' which means 'Cat, I have farted'. Which seems to sum the whole thing up pretty neatly.
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The extreme Right are very loud rather than very popular. But as long as the media mistake loudness for popularity, the extreme Right will keep getting more airtime than their rivals. That’s not to underestimate the very real frustrations with politics that many of their
So, in the end, both France and Britain voted against the far-right. Doesn't mean the threat is gone, but pay attention to the center, center left, green and center right voters who are still the majority in Europe, everywhere except Hungary.
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Really ugly scenes during @jessphillips‘ acceptance speech. Absolutely appalling; men shouting down a woman when she’s legitimately won an election is disgraceful and a bad look for our democracy.
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From rugby league to Royal Opera, our cultural and sporting heritage runs through our towns, villages and cities and is one of our country’s greatest assets. It is an unbelievable privilege to take on the role of Secretary of State @DCMS . The hard work begins today.
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Let this sink in: 1/3 of performing arts freelancers reported average hour earnings below National Living Wage. 1/5 of performing arts freelancers work over 50 or more hours a week. If this was a salaried job it WOULD BE ILLEGAL. Via @FreelancersMake
https://t.co/yvQXYG1fVv
freelancersmaketheatrework.com
The home of The Big Freelancer Survey. The largest survey of its kind monitoring Freelancers in the arts.
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Nothing to see here, folks, just a whole bunch of people who trained in those 'worthless' arts subjects adding £250m to the national economy.
'Bridgerton' Has Added Over £250 Million to the U.K. Economy, Netflix Says
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For example, I never spent four billion pounds on unusable PPE.
You will always be better at spending your own money than the government is.
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Next stop: The Barbican. Come see our lovely company in #amidsummernightsdream this winter in London. @TheRSC #Shakespeare #Dream
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“You’ll like Clacton, Ted. We can go on the pier”
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Is “2k more tax “ the new “350 million NHS “bus slogan . Doesn’t need to be right. Just needs to be repeated . Have we come so little way since the grubby days of that campaign ??
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Those asking if ‘The Thick of It’ is writing this election may want to note that today’s Tory immigration plan -shunt it off to an independent body to decide, so ministers can avoid talking specifics in interviews- is the main plot of 2009’s special ‘The Rise of the Nutters.’
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NHS staff are not failing, they have been failed for 13 years Please RT if you agree
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