Dr Lucy Jackson (@lucycmmjackson.bsky.social) writes about the new exhibition "The Greeks: Radical Reinvention" at the National Theatre which she worked on with the Head of Archive at the National Theatre, Erin Lee: classicalreception.org?p=3903&previ...

“Eurovision has never been about politics, says BBC boss Tim Davie” **Screams in Riverdance**

🎭 Congratulations to Dr Lucy Jackson, whose exhibition '‘The Greeks: Radical Reinvention’ has opened at the National Theatre’s Wolfson Gallery! 👉 The exhibition tells the story of how the NT has reimagined Greek drama across six decades 📅 Open until early spring 🔗 buff.ly/dWh0FLz

Gary Owen’s unforgettable ‘Iphigenia in Splott’ is released as a Student Edition this month from @methuendrama.bsky.social, with a fascinating intro by @lucycmmjackson.bsky.social. It’s extra special to have this play - a blistering aria against austerity on a mythic scale - as part of the series.

If you're in Los Angeles, get thee to the Troubies at the Getty! If I could move any group to Broadway, it would be a Troubie show. #theatresky

Now up on the CRSN site! Antonio Papapicco and Valeria Spacciante - the organisers of the CRSN/ICS 2025 Summer Series - reflect on the theme of ancient violence and its reception in the modern world. Read more here: classicalreception.org/modern-refle...

We're supporting a new National Theatre ‪exhibition exploring how ancient Greek tragedies continue to inspire modern theatre.🎭 Our expert in ancient Greek literature, @lucycmmjackson.bsky.social curated the exhibition. bsky.app/profile/nati... ‪ Read more: 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

I am enjoying watching ‘Too Much’, but I do just keep thinking wistfully of ‘I May Destroy You’. He locked. Her out. When she went. To get. Pizza. THAT’S how you do it.

Just want three or four other ways of saying ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’, is that too much to ask…?

“I asked Chat GPT” “I asked Grok” Ok well I asked Sappho and she said ……. ……. ..[b]osom

When people say “You’re not tired, you’re just dehydrated” it makes me want to decapitate them with a Barbie doll. I can be both, fool. I contain multitudes.

Andor is great and I don’t mind a bit all the Andor content being pushed to me on Facebook. They really had the ma(a)rvellous Fiona Shaw saying ‘Fuck the Empire’ and it’s not everything but it’s not nothing

Why do packing cubes, and the people who advertise them, have such a hold on me?

We’re at the Mahler 9 stage of marking season

This is happening in the UK, not the US. Fascism, misogyny & the desire to control women’s bodies is on the rise everywhere. Stop using period tracker apps. Consider a permanent form of birth control if you’re sure you don’t want kids. Be discrete with your reproductive health.

It's here! Know your rights. A resource for trans people in the UK following the Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act. It has been reviewed by a team of lawyers to help you (and us) feel confident in knowing your rights. You'll find it at transactual.org.uk/know-your-ri... #Trans #Nonbinary

#TheatreSky what are your favourite seismic pieces of literary criticism on Midsummer Night’s Dream? Marxist, feminist, anarchist?

Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29

Day four! Striking for our jobs! We are not a drain on the university! We ARE the university!

FAB to stand with dedicated picketers today on Day 3 of our local branch STRIKE! Best of all was the support (honk honk!) from the Durham town community. This callous threat of forced redundancies by Management impacts our whole community - brothers and aunts, sisters and sons, colleagues and pals!

Day two of the strike, and we've ben getting a lot of questions from students about the action. What's it for, why are we doing it now, and how can they help. So let's run through some Strike Questions! 🧵

Great turnout today on @ducu.bsky.social pickets. On strike to protect professional services staff jobs. An attack on one is an attack on all! Management tried to pit academics against professional services staff - they've failed! We are *all* the university!

New picket day, new sign. As cuts go up, services go down. Upset by the cut in library hours? Just you wait until cuts take effect! Anise pine nut cookies ready to go for the morning! @ducu.bsky.social #veganpickets #NoCuts #SaveOurStaff

Job cuts are a choice, not a necessity. @ducu.bsky.social is on strike today to protect our colleagues and our university.

@ducu.bsky.social Starting our STRIKE action today to defend the jobs of colleagues. We’ll all suffer with forced redundancies - a better solution has to be found. Would prefer to be revising aorist participles with my brilliant students. Digital picket line here #LoveOurPSStaff

Anyway anyone looking for a career change on TERF island should probably consider plumbing or construction. Lots of toilets and changing rooms that need to be built because our government is either too complicit or stupid to counteract truly batshit interpretations of the law. 👷👷‍♀️👷‍♂️

Coming up this Monday (April 28): The first of the CRSN/ICS Classical Reception Summer Series! Out first seminar is Rory McInnes-Gibson's “Ruins Still Standing at the Frontline of Violence: Tadmor-Palmyra and the Future of the Site.” Find out more below: classicalreception.org/event/crsn-i...

🎺 In other exciting news, we've also joined... *checks notes* the "Instagram". Better late than never? Find us: apgrd_oxford Where can we find you lovely people?

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Part of our Classical Reception Summer Seminars series, which take place Online on Mondays with a focus on Ancient Violence and Contemporary Receptions: Challenges and Perspectives.

Ruins Still Standing at the Frontline of Violence: Tadmor-Palmyra and the Future of the Site, Rory McInnes-Gibson (University of Durham). Online (via Zoom) Monday 28 April 3.30pm. Please register: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/ruins-still-standing-frontline-violence-tadmor-palmyra-and-future-site

Urgh I just liked a message from the M&S CEO this is who I am then

Support group for Last Of Us S02E02 please

JKR funded the campaign group behind all this btw. This is why we beg you to stop engaging with Harry Potter media.

Supreme Court Stinks

Flashback to three months ago: Wall Street was excited because Trump would let say them say the word 'retard' www.ft.com/content/cf87...

This is great, although I will defend the Oxford comma with my dying breath

Only just seen this is happening!! Squeeee!! southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/...

Attention In Lieu Of Fun chorus members! On tomorrow’s #DogShirtTV, our estimable co-host Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca has invited Dr. Lucy Jackson @lucycmmjackson.bsky.social to talk about all things #GreekChorus! #ILOF

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

Listening to this is like eating your way through an enchanted and utterly delectable box of chocolates that also feeds your brain and your very being

Incredible views at the theatre of Epidaurus, famed for its amazing acoustics - thanks to clever design, you can even hear a coin drop on stage from the top row #archaeologybluesky #ancientbluesky #greece 🏺🎭

Oh we love gardening #Spring

💥 Empowering Young Voices: Blackpool Grand’s First Oracy Symposium 📚 Part of Durham-funded 'Shy Bairns Get Nowt project' by @profarlenehh.bsky.social 🔗 Read the write-up here: https://buff.ly/4jOaVdd

"'Sounding English' isn’t the point. It’s a Russian play, set in Russia, 125 years ago... if anything, 'sounding Russian' is the point" Today, we have Rory Mullarkey on his new version of Chekhov's "most beautiful" play, Three Sisters, and why the magic is in its maintaining its mystery...

I would like to thank everyone who has written to me privately to say how brilliant they think I am. Alas, they feel they can’t say this publicly for fear of some other people getting upset about my brilliance. I weep for the silent - no, silenced - majority of people who think I’m brilliant.

Poll for university teachers of beginners/intermediate ancient languages: how & how often do you do formative assessment of students' progress? i.e. not summative coursework/exams, but (e.g.) homework (marked by you/another tutor/peers/self/computer), in-class quizzes/tests, etc #AncientBlueSky

And not unrelated to the last I am VERY excited about the OG cast for the filming of HadesTown in the West End!!

How does Greek Tragedy get digitally recorded today? This event @apgrd.bsky.social will take you BTS in how the National Theatre make their recordings (available via National Theatre Collection if you can twist an institution to get access for you!) Hybrid! www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...

Why am I still so obsessed with Wicked?