"Eurydice" by William Kentridge Animation for the forthcoming production of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” #ancientbluesky #classicalreception #art

The Dome, Brighton. Built for the Prince Regent's horses. Tonight Shostakovich #10.

Another Glyndebourne visit and loving the very stylish Kentridge artwork for the 2026 season.

Special day at Glyndebourne. Opening night of the 2026 festival next week!

Big news everyone! The one and only @curatorrob.bsky.social is now on Bluesky. If you love a Roman palace, hypocausts (not standing in them obviously) and Huxley the dog - do give him a follow. 😃

Looking forward to tomorrow and the big drama of the day being the bidding on the celebrity gnomes at Chelsea Flower Show.

Spooling along ....

Enjoyed The Sheep Detectives. In which Cousin Greg is a police constable outwitted by the flock. Plus the lovely folklore that 🐑🐑🐑 don't die, they just turn into ☁️☁️☁️.

lyric.co.uk/shows/the-ch... Loved this Lucy Kirkwood play when it premiered and can't wait to see a new production with Meera Syal

Jamael Westman struts his stuff in a very engaging An Ideal Husband @lyrichammersmith.bsky.social with all the fireworks of the Wilde zingers 🎉

Norfolk delivers a ‘plague on both your houses’ rebuke to the two major English parties. Norwich City: Labour lose control to Greens. County: Conservatives lose control and are now FIFTH (behind Great Yarmouth First).

At least only 3% of my immediate neighbours went for the worst option on the ballot.

The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.

The actors in Mass @donmarwarehouse.bsky.social are extraordinary. Nowhere to hide as the parents of 2 pupils, one a victim and the other the perpetrator at a school shooting, meet several years later.

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Field trip to Bristol. Excellent guided tour around St Mary Redcliffe and then the batshit Kander & Ebb musical Kiss of the Spiderwoman at Bristol Old Vic. A great day!

lwtheatres.co.uk/whats-on/the... Immediately books x2

Theatre Monday. A fast paced solo performer doing multiple roles a day after running the marathon. Most impassioned moment - when the performer stopped and called out a person for filming. Took the performer a while to get the audience back. Better to get FOH to deal with it more discretely IMHO.

Monday Mill. #NotDarkOrSatanic #LifeInANorthernTown 📷

Mark Gatiss outstandingly creepy as Ui, warning us that 'the bitch that bore him is in heat again' @the-rsc.bsky.social Special mention for Mawaan Rizwan and LJ Parkinson as the goons and Placebo for the music. Compelling staging.

Copenhagen at the Hampstead theatre. First time seeing the play since I visited Hiroshima and Los Alamos and it still sparkles.

4,500 people in the online queue for the first morning of Game of Thrones booking @the-rsc.bsky.social (and a large increase in new membership to secure priority access).

A view through the C12th west doorway of the monastic church at Jedburgh Abbey in the Scottish Borders. Initially founded as a priory in 1138 by David I, it became an abbey in 1154. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #JedburghAbbey

And on this day in 1653 Oliver Cromwell stood up in parliament and said 'depart, I say; and let us have done with you'. Thanks to @theatlantic.com for that reminder of the dissolution of the Rump Parliament.

Sunday morning stroll on the Broads

Thank you to everyone who said the book was 5⭐️.

Gorgeous glass gaming pieces from Iron Age Britain! 🤩 This unique set of 24 coloured glass domes with flattened base and spiral decoration may have been used for a game similar to ludo some 2,000 years ago. British Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

Four years ago

Thelma & Louise musical! Plus Ben Whishaw in Eurotrash at the Young Vic Yes! www.youngvic.org/whats-on

John Proctor is the Villain @royalcourt.bsky.social tonight. Long queue for returns, huge energy in the auditorium before curtain up and large glasses of red wine in the bar after. #MeToo

Robert Icke's fresh take on Romeo & Juliet is wonderful. Early scenes between Noah Jupe and Sadie Sink a joyful depiction of first love.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses @nationaltheatre.org.uk . Enjoyable, but Alan Rickman was so good as the sly manipulative seducer playing a game whereas nobody in their right mind is going to resist Poldark for more than a nanosecond.

Voting matters. Living in a constituency with over 60k registered voters in a ‘safe’ seat which changed hands with a majority of 20 (after 3 recounts) and then flipped back with a majority of 200, it’s important to register to vote and show up.

Excited about the Bayeux Tapestry coming to the British Museum (September 2026 - July 2027). Usually members get free unlimited access to exhibitions, indeed they are still touting this as a key benefit. BUT 2 visits only across the whole run for Bayeux. So that’s one in the eye for members.

Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

Obligatory blossom pic🍃 #OneWalkADay #MentalHealthMatters

A spectacular googly-eyed octopus does battle with a lobster in this 2,000 year-old Roman mosaic from Pompeii 🐙 🦞 Some fantastic fishy onlookers too! House of the Geometric Mosaics. On display Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

NASA #Artemis II flyby coverage schedule; all times in Eastern. You can follow along live on NASA+ (plus.nasa.gov) or on the NASA YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@NASA). It should be amazing to watch!

A long winter thaws in Harrenhal, and spring is promised...   Game of Thrones: The Mad King will play in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon from 20 July to 5 September   Join now for Priority Booking from 14 April 👑 Public Booking opens from 22 April

Alfred Enoch has such a beautiful voice and hearing his Henry V at the RSC is a delight. Paul Hunter leads the comedy troupe and is the best I’ve seen. The sum of the parts greater than the whole on first viewing.

Another wonderful show @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social. The most consistent theatre in London for delivery of outstanding productions. Remarkable debuts from 2 of the actors playing the Van Gogh siblings.

The magnolias in Bute Park, Cardiff are in fine form

Quite the honour to see a preview of Pale View of Hills and have a Q&A with Kazuo Ishiguro and Camilla Aiko. Loved the film.

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JONATHAN GROFF as Rosalind! Crashed the website. Involuntary squeaking when I heard about this in the members bar at the South Bank.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... UK premiere of John Adams’ Piano Concerto ‘After the Fall’ with superstar Vikingur Olafsson

Looking forward to seeing the GOT extravaganza in July in Stratford @the-rsc.bsky.social and further announcements tomorrow…. 🤐