Found writing this very therapeutic, hopefully can be of interest to others #writing #chronicillness #playwright
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Found writing this very therapeutic, hopefully can be of interest to others #writing #chronicillness #playwright
Playwrights call for greater creative risk following Jennie Lee lecture last week
Read this story in @thestage.co.uk with quotes from WGGB Theatre Chairs @mogster.bsky.social and @sonalidb.bsky.social and former WGGB President David Edgar
www.thestage.co.uk/news/playwri...
3/ This financial blow is devastating not just for Graeae, but for the British theatre landscape. We hope the Department for Work and Pensions will reconsider their decision
2/ Jenny is an incredible, dynamic theatre director and Artistic Director, as well as a formidable and tireless advocate for equal access to theatre for disabled artists
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1/ “The WGGB Theatre Committee are extremely concerned to learn of the swingeing cuts to Artistic Director of @graeaetheatre.bsky.social Jenny Sealey’s Access to Work
4/ We stand in full solidarity with Jenny Sealey, Graeae, and all our disabled members, many of whom have also seen cuts to Access to Work support, making the barriers to their full participation in the sector even harder”
WGGB Theatre Chairs @mogster.bsky.social + @sonalidb.bsky.social
1/ It's International Women's Day on Sunday and WGGB Theatre Chairs @sonalidb.bsky.social + @mogster.bsky.social will be taking part in the Front & Centre: International Women's Day Playwriting Festival on Sat 7 March at 1pm, where they will be talking about rights for writers
This weeks post is from the marvellous @alexkanefsky.bsky.social 💓
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For International Women’s Day 8th March
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At this year's Jennie Lee Lecture, @nationaltheatre.org.uk Artistic Director Indhu Rubasingham highlighted the crisis in new writing for theatre and the need for a renewed national commitment to back creative risk, something WGGB supports
Our response in full:
writersguild.org.uk/jennie-lee-l...
![Screenshot from Wikipedia article on Rob Grant, who passed away today. Text reads “On 19 February 2026, it was announced that Grant had written a Red Dwarf prequel novel, Red Dwarf: Titan, coauthored by Andrew Marshall, which was to be released in July 2026.141 He died suddenly less than a week later on 25 February 2026, his death being announced the following day.
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Screenshot from Wikipedia article on Rob Grant, who passed away today. Text reads “On 19 February 2026, it was announced that Grant had written a Red Dwarf prequel novel, Red Dwarf: Titan, coauthored by Andrew Marshall, which was to be released in July 2026.141 He died suddenly less than a week later on 25 February 2026, his death being announced the following day. 11]”
Holy shit what a sign off.
RIP
We're excited to announce that our 26/27 national tour of The Turn of the Screw will be adapted for the stage by Olivier award-winning playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm in a co-production with @arcolatheatre.bsky.social directed by Nicky Allpress!
blackeyedtheatre.co.uk/shows-2/show...
@mogster.bsky.social's new stage adaptation of Henry James' ghost story novella, The Turn of the Screw, will be running 11 Sept - 10 Oct 2026 at @arcolatheatre.bsky.social in a co-production with @blackeyedtheatre.bsky.social!
Grab your tickets for this masterwork of psychological suspense today.
A whole year of these substack posts so what better way to celebrate than to have @eevlee.bsky.social brilliance!! Enjoy!
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Very much enjoyed doing this!
This weeks post is from the brilliant @markabowles.bsky.social 💓
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Heyyyy
Me too xxx
Come and hear WGGB Theatre Chairs @sonalidb.bsky.social and @mogster.bsky.social talk rights for writers at the Playhouse Derry / Londonderry, as part of the Front & Centre: International Women's Day Playwriting Festival on Sat 7 March at 1pm
www.derryplayhouse.co.uk/event/rights...
I think about it all the time too. It’s wild how everything just….got ignored (though not surprising). Wrote about it a bit on today’s substack open.substack.com/pub/morganll...
thinking abt The List that was posted in various UK theatres not long ago and how nothing rlly was done. @mogster.bsky.social
This weeks post is from the excellent Sampira 💓
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I'm trying a new "see how well AI image gen is" test. This time I'm going to ask it to draw a map of the world, and then zoom in to Europe, the UK, Yorkshire and York to see when things start to get hazy.
All of these are with the free models using the smart/thinking variants. 1/n
Love this in particular “Consulting a little red Moleskine book I keep in which, over the years, I’ve jotted down lots of writing advice. ‘Every sentence must either reveal character or advance the action’ (Kurt Vonnegut). That kind of thing” -I always have to remind myself how TF to write each time
Haha excellent
This weeks post is from the wonderful Samuel Adamson 💓
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This weeks post is from the marvellous Barney Norris 💓
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