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Welsh performers - I need you.

I am looking to cast an ensemble of 5 actors/ performers for my upcoming production of Verdi's opera, Rigoletto. The show is for WNO and will be opening in the WMC in July.

Details in thread below:

Explain a plot badly. One bloke is desperate to leave Wales.

Imagine toasting the forced removal of desperate people to Rwanda. What'll it be? Champagne? Some proper are-we-the-baddies shit.

My amazing, wonderful, talented sister @lleuwen ❤️ theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

This obsessive performative cruelty will be a profound stain on the modern British state. One day we will look back on this time with collective shame and disgust.

I was there.

Completely agree. Hope he stays in the game. I’ve a feeling he could go very far as a coach.

A man who has never known hardship can’t understand why so many struggle with mental health issues.

A man with no medical training presumes to tell GPs why they shouldn’t be using their expertise to assess patients.

Crass Tory cruelty.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

44 years ago today, history's greatest printing error was published in the Peterborough Standard

Agree. It can’t be any other way.

I think the Daily Star is the only newspaper that makes sense these days.

Everyone’s entitled to their view but the number of MPs and commentators now saying our institutions have been ‘captured’ when they disagree with decisions of those institutions is divisive populism and sinister. Institutions aren’t there to be used for political wedge-driving.

I’ve had the honour of working on a short film for inspirational musical icons A Certain Ratio for their brilliant new album ItAllComesDownTThis for Mute
It premieres on YouTubeLive at 8pm…
I’ll be joining in with band on the chat…come take a peek!

youtu.be/XlhuEYU_K6Q?si…

Just 10 minutes until the premiere of It All Comes Down To... ACR. A short film by the BAFTA award winning filmmaker Kieran Evans.

Head over to the Mute YouTube channel to watch from 20:00BST: youtu.be/XlhuEYU_K6Q

Three important things to remember:
1) Everyone needs to fuck off at some point.
2) In so engaging, I accept that I shall also be invited to fuck off. I can a) take undue offense at this or b) accept it as inevitable and, indeed, an invitation to escalate to a rhetorical and…

Clark tells a story by Greek poet Cavafy, in which he imagines an antique town that waits for barbarians to come and sack the city.

After a while, the barbarians move on and the city is spared. But the people are disappointed—destruction would have at least been interesting.

This is the truth about these people.

Genius take.