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FRESH START ON BLUESKY 🙃🤷‍♂️ Romanian-born theatre director | London based | @migrantstheatre ⭐️Trying really hard to ‘infect the theatre in the U.K.’ with radical ‘European’ stagings⭐️

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The Epstein files really made it clear that royals can truly be some of the most stupid people on the planet.

Second place occupied by the billionaires…

05.02.2026 18:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

NEPO BABY 2025 trend:

Mommy/Daddy (who happen to be a huge name) stars in their child’s debut movie.

Guess the result! 😂😂

27.12.2025 12:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe by the time you get to directing your 10th movie not only you start loosing your creative power (as Tarantino likes to say) but you also become a complete asshole! (as Tarantino doesn’t seem to realise).

#Tarantino #PaulDano

07.12.2025 17:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I mean sure, it’s only gonna end up being ruined by another/different nepo baby then? 😀

05.12.2025 18:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I guess it’s RIP HBO - some of the most influential tv shows and the definition of the golden age of tv came from them.

The Wire; Succession; Sopranos; Six Feet Under; Treme; etc. The list goes on and on.

With Netflix acquiring HBO I am afraid mediocrity will now take over…

05.12.2025 16:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Lol. Only in America….

26.10.2025 23:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I find it absolutely insane that Trump could destroy the East Wing of the White House without requiring proper conservation approval.

I know the USA has a whole different culture of regulations (or lack of), but surely these buildings are heritage grade protected?

26.10.2025 18:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Every couple of years an international show comes to the Barbican and blows people’s mind in the U.K.

And the second day everyone goes back to doing what they used to do before (as practice, aesthetic, approach to making theatre).

Have seen this “movie” a couple times already it’s almost funny 🤣

06.10.2025 11:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Migrants in Theatre doesn’t have an account (yet) on bluesky but this is the latest statement to put together. We are all concerned with what’s going on in this country and need the solidarity of our peers from the theatre industry. Feel free to follow us on Instagram.

15.09.2025 19:06 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
SCHAUSPIEL FRANKFURT: »Warten auf Godot« von Samuel Beckett
SCHAUSPIEL FRANKFURT: »Warten auf Godot« von Samuel Beckett YouTube video by Schauspiel Frankfurt

Unless it’s a german production like this one below which seems from a different planet haha. If you wanna have a look at the trailer :)

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ytD3...

15.09.2025 17:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I haven’t, only seen production shots from it, and yes, they are altering it with light (and that’s about it), but I am also basing my take on seeing other shows by Jamie Lloyd in which I felt that tends to be the main issue - exhausting the possibilities of staging in the first 10 min.

15.09.2025 11:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sure, but after 5-10 min the possibilities of this set are totally exhausted basically. The room for changes/surprises/transformation is extremely limited when you opt for such a space/set. I think that’s the actual issue, it’s diminishing the potential of the experience….

15.09.2025 08:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

10 years ago it was the Eastern European migrants, then it was Brexit. When they couldn’t use these excuses, they got obsessed with the “illegal” migration and refugees.

Let’s be honest, NOTHING will satisfy these people waving the flags these days. THEY will ALWAYS FIND SOMETHING else…TO HATE!

31.08.2025 18:52 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The 3 theatre recordings are all directed by Butusov, filmed at a great quality and come with English subs. One of them - The Seagull production- is by far the best production of that play that I’ve seen. Out of this world.
Consider buying the package. Totally worth it! And for a noble cause…

13.08.2025 19:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Watch Butusov Set Online | Vimeo On Demand A trio of extraordinary works, from Gogol to Chekhov to Shakespeare, staged by Yury Butusov. Watch and rewatch as often as you want, whenever you want. All proceeds…

Following the tragic death of the great Russian theatre director, Yury Butusov, the online platform StageRussia (completely independent and USA based) is running a special offer package of buying 3 recording for 15£.
Proceeding will all go to the surviving family. 👇

vimeo.com/ondemand/but...

13.08.2025 19:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Visionary really…

10.08.2025 16:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

He left a few years ago for Paris. He was in rehearsals summer break now at Craiova National Theatre where I directed a show once. I was basically told by one of my friends actors from that ensemble of this tragedy. He was supposed to resume rehearsals with them in 1-2 weeks. For A Winter’s Tale.

10.08.2025 16:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Truly heartbreaking…

10.08.2025 15:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Such a tragedy - Yuri BUTUSOV, the famous theatre director who left Russia after the start of the war, drowned in Bulgaria. 💔💔

He directed The Seagull production which we watched part of the European Theatre Club during the pandemic + The Good Person of Shezhuan at the Barbican some years ago.

10.08.2025 12:44 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1

Most of them are written with an underlying tone of “you should be grateful just to be around/for the opportunity to be in the room”.

The room for potential individualised development path and pursuing of certain interests seems almost 0 in these ads…

16.07.2025 12:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

90% of calls for directors/assistants/trainees/resident are ALL about what the applicant can offer.

Almost no meaningful thought in terms of what the theatre/institution can offer in terms of craft and artistic development for the person applying.

It’s all so one sided…and uninteresting really…

16.07.2025 12:17 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I would dare to argue that THE SERVANT (1963) is the best British film ever made. 🙊

07.06.2025 22:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good to see the Young Vic studio making a come back…

14.05.2025 10:37 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What the Labour government doesn’t understand is that you can’t win the argument with some voters and some communities.

So many of these folks adopted a victimhood mentality and resentment - yesterday it was Brexit and EU migrants, today it’s the “illegals” , tomorrow they will find someone else…

11.05.2025 09:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am really looking forward to that play that stops idealising (mostly) white working classes and also deals with the racism, xenophobia and victimisation that exists with a lot of people from these communities.

Genuinely getting tired of folks finding excuses for the far right voters…

03.05.2025 09:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How the hell is still possible for Farage to count in politics?

He’s the architect of Brexit, the biggest mistake of U.K. politics in decades. Political rivals should remind everyone that every time Farage opens his mouth. The media should do that too.

Are the Brits seriously switching to Reform?

02.05.2025 13:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Question for my Canadian friends if they can illuminate me:

P. POILIEVRE losing his seat for the first time since 2004 - isn’t this a bit strange given that the Conservative didn’t do that bad overall? Is he actually less popular than his own party?

29.04.2025 18:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Part of me would really want to see Canada becoming a USA state for one reason only:

It will be the state with the most electors given its population and it would probably vote Democrats, hence it would become borderline impossible for the Republicans to ever win the presidency. 😂🙃😂

28.04.2025 16:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In a city like London, with so much offer in terms of theatre, standing out is absolutely essential.

And still - almost no theatre institution has a fully shaped/assumed artistic identity. Everyone does the same - a bit of everything basically. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

28.04.2025 10:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump’s assault on universities is textbook autocratic behaviour. We’ve seen this in so many other instances (Hungary, Germany în the 30s, Russia).

The only chance is for ALL American universities to stand together on a matter of principle and rally popular support.

17.04.2025 08:55 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0