If, like me, you are a freelancer in theatre, please fill in this survey. It’s bleak out there right now, and the excellent Freelancers Make Theatre Work are important in arguing our case. …eelancersmaketheatrework.typeform.com/to/tYciXI4A

Really looking forward to chatting to R Lattin-Rawstrone about #thebeholders in sunny #nailsworth later 🌞

📣 Opportunity: Sleeping Warrior Theatre Company are looking for an assistant director for our upcoming musical #ToSaveTheSea written and directed by Andy McGregor and Isla Cowan via an FST bursary. 🗓️ Interviews: Thu 25 Apr. Full job description here: sleepingwarriortheatre.com/to-save-the-sea

Friends you can read here the first of my FREE twice weekly emails ‘101 exercises for playwrights’. Thanks to those who’ve already subscribed - check your junk if not in your box ! A retweet would be fab. buttondown.email/MarkRavenhill/…

‘We move authority like a strand of black hair’ - Sanah Ahsan, from ‘I Cannot Be Good Until You Say It’ Bloomsbury Books UK

podcast on Risk. I've been told it is a great play but we can't take the "risk" more times than i care to give credence to...but that innovation iris is definitely shrinking...maybe they're right, an audience of 5 is the new capacity for risk? bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0… Amanda Rose

Rosen highlights the many issues with Ofsted's analyses, including that according to their agenda "The student is irrelevant. Only the text and the knowledge of the text is relevant." Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 #EducationDebate #Literacy buff.ly/3xmdCig

It is with a heavy heart to let you all know that next week will be our last event for the foreseeable future, our second Creative Scotland application was rejected. Please join us Tuesday to celebrate our incredible community here at #Page2Stage

‘I’m listening to the spin cycle its determination to make it to the end’ - from Laurie Bolger’s epic pamphlet ‘Spin’

In this experiment Dr Rob Thompson from the University of Reading shows how long it takes a cup of water to soak into parched ground. This is why heavy rainfall after a drought can be really dangerous & might lead to flash flooding

Originally created by Arthur Shapiro and Alex Rose-Henig of American University, this illusion gives the overall impression that all of the movement involved is circular – but it's actually made by dots' straight motion

stop. please, Rishi. I heard it with shame the first time (not the first time) and this time it is breaking my heart. refugeecouncil.org.au/stop-the-boats/. stop the cruelty. Tampa.

Thank you Phoebe Waller Bridge’s @keepitfringe . Your support means so much. My play LIFE premieres Scottish Storytelling Centre Venue 30 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Tickets on sale June 12th. Thank you @EPADedinburgh

A short talk by Anne Carson… ✈️

Look! Tickets are live for LIFE my new show having its world premiere Edinburgh Festival Fringe Scottish Storytelling Centre Here is where to snap them up, Four onstage tickets at every show , going fast! Eleven performances, …storytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:5605/

"I place one word slowly..." —Linda Pastan

— Ada Limón

I didn’t know the poems of Everette Maddox (1944-89) at all till a few months ago but now I absolutely love so many of them. This is from his Selected Poems (UNO Press, 2009).