Bridget Foreman

Brilliant! I suspect this is going to result in Shit of the Dump in our house.

Intrigued now…what was it?

This is brilliant news! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

My daughter says: Stig of the Dump.

Awww…I can see him in you.

"It’s rather cruel to ask why government should ‘prop up’ the arts, it’s their duty to promote the cultural well-being of the nation in the same way as we support the health of the nation with the NHS. These things are deeply connected. To separate them out doesn’t make sense to me."

Speaking to the Times this week, Emma Thompson has urged the government to back the arts like it backs the NHS.

Read more here: www.thetimes.com/culture/thea...

#FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #TheArts #Culture #ArtsAndCulture

The big man, Bertolt Brecht

Happy birthday to the big man, Bertolt Brecht! 🥳

Yep. At its best we talked to each other. Now it feels as if we talk at each other.

The Last Picture at York Theatre Royal is a miniature triumph: writing, acting, direction, design all holding your eye in kind but devastating insistence to what needs to be seen.

Restored angel fresco resembling Italian PM Meloni sparks investigation The artist has denied modelling the fresco on the prime minister.

Priceless. Has anyone told them about the Medicis?

Restored angel fresco resembling Italian PM Meloni sparks investigation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’ve received an email from Admin asking me to accept the student supervision spreadsheet as the ‘single source of truth’. I guess that’s the Philosophy and Theology Departments done for.

Very happy to report that both series of Home are now back available on the Channel 4 website. Check it out, now more than ever.

If you had the misfortune to watch ‘Jay Kelly’, and thought ‘surely there’s a better film about actors struggling to be themselves’, there is - and it’s an old one. ‘My Favourite Year’, starring Peter O’Toole. A touching, hilarious work of genius.

With respect, no - it can’t. FFS.

I endorse this 100%.

We are hiring! Are you an experienced production & operations manager able to lead the technical and production operations for events and productions for a busy theatre venue in York? We'd love you to be part of our team! Head to www.ridinglights.org/jobs for more info.

Keep up the good work, ladies - it’ll pay off eventually.

Crufts?

There is a squirrel who phwangs madly around our garden, and my children have named him Speedy Wonder.

@wateracre.bsky.social
Ahem.

At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,

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Cambridge college to target elite private schools for student recruitment Exclusive: Trinity Hall’s new policy described as a ‘slap in the face’ for state-educated students

Beyond shocking.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

No, private schools aren’t victims of ‘reverse discrimination’ – and Cambridge should know better | Lee Elliot Major Trinity Hall’s plan to target elite schools sends the message that privilege equals talent, when the reality is that poorer students are already on the back foot, says professor of social mobility at ...

‘The test of a great university is not whether it attracts those already trained to succeed, but whether it can recognise and cultivate potential wherever it exists.’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Life goal.

Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

If you haven’t already done so, please read this and take a moment out of your morning today to email your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We're looking for an experienced production and operations manager to look after Friargate Theatre, lead the technical and production operations for Riding Lights and Friargate Theatre events, and to act as Production Manager on Riding Lights productions.
Head to the link in our bio for more info.

Woo-hoo York Theatre Royal!! And I’m so proud to have made work here in a clearly outstanding year!

When my kids were very small, they used to call bars of chocolate ‘Mummy’s book’.