Please please please sign this. Children must not go hungry. There is no excuse in our wealthy country.

On 22 July @ace_national will be open again for applications, with a budget of £59.8 million. The programme is reopening to help fund independent organisations, creative practitioners & freelancers as quickly as possible. https://t.co/dKtlweputy #freelancersmaketheatrework

There's still time for theatre workers and #freelancers to apply for a grant from the #TheatreArtistsFund who have now doubled their initial fund. Find out more and apply here: https://t.co/FaGyOs2JPK #freelancersmaketheatrework

So there is more to do - and more money needed - but share widely so those in need can apply tomorrow.

Incredible news. Thank you so much to all who worked so hard to make this happen. Thank you for listening @RishiSunak @OliverDowden Now we must work together to support the freelancers, ensure inclusion is meaningful, learn from this time. And make great shows for our audiences.

A glimmer of good. National Lottery Project Grants is returning. On 22 July they will be open again for applications, with a budget of £59.8 million available until April 2021. Add yourself to the mailing list & find out more: https://t.co/6MioF4QvV8 #freelancersmaketheatrework

84 years ago the New Deal Federal Theater Project funded Orson Welles' "Voodoo Macbeth" in Harlem's Lafayette Theatre with an all-black cast. Government support during the Depression kept US theatre alive & enabled it to be an agent of social progress. I hope our Govt takes note.

Terrible Rage...

Amazing, brilliant, beautiful freelancers making theatre with their hearts and souls to excite and thrill us. Mercurial magicians. They must be cherished, nurtured, protected and championed. And paid. Properly paid.

As the statue of colonialist Cecil Rhodes came down at the University of Cape Town in 2015, seven students wrote #TheFall. The play goes to the heart of how race, class, gender, power and history’s voices intersect. Watch it online here: https://t.co/1Van0KzZBz

Please share this far and wide, people. This is brilliant work - as always - from @racheal_ofori. And so many incredible artists collaborating on it. Big love and respect to @racheal_ofori & all involved. ❤️

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Omg get emailing people..

Catch Jess Tom’s (@touretteshero) film #MeMyMouthAndI on @BBCiPlayer. Jess asks us to radically reconsider issues of disability, representation and social exclusion as she prepares to perform the role of Mouth in Samuel Beckett's Not I. #WeShallNotBeRemoved

Yay indeed. It was brilliant. Congratulations to you all. @winsome_pinnock

Rockets and Blue lights tonight 8pm Radio 3. Me and associate director ⁦@Mumba_Jasmine⁩ feeling almost like it’s a real life press night... nerves and bubbles. #LockdownTheatreFestival #Redcarpet

So here it is - right there. This disgusting racism. The fascists, the football tops, the Nazi -salutes. This is our work white people. We need to understand and expose the institutional racism deep in our DNA which results in this. We have urgent work to do. #BlackLivesMatter

Tonight at 8pm @winsome_pinnock powerful play ROCKETS AND BLUE LIGHTS, directed by @MirandaCromwell airs on @BBCRadio3 as part of this weekends @TheatreLockdown #LockdownTheatreFestival Tune in for an incredible night of theatre >> https://t.co/QzPw2xTA8t

Incredible work.

If the police did their jobs, everyone woud trust them. Ain’t no song called Fuck The Fire Department.