Things I didn't know before I had kids 12: When the children start taping food to the floor and furniture, it is time for the playdate to be over.

THE BACCHAE IS GOING ON TOUR! We're hitting the road across Scotland in 2026, starting at Citizens Theatre and reaching Aberdeen, Dumfries & Galloway, Edinburgh, Melrose, Peebles, Stirling, and Orkney, plus more dates to come! Check out our website for info! companyofwolves.org/projects/the...

1/6 IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN FOLKS! Announcing.......WINTER TRAINING 2026 Winter Training is your creative kick-start to the new year --- based in Company of Wolves’ rigorous and playful body-centred training, and years of investigation into non-hierarchical creation

So proud to have been involved in Close, the Citizens' Young Company show about the legendary Close Theatre. On until Saturday. Close | Citizens Theatre citz.co.uk/whats-on/clo...

Drinking the @stfermentations.bsky.social Foreign Extra Stout I've been saving. Crikey that's a good beer.

Listening to Dubnobasswithmyheadman by @underworldlive.bsky.social One of my favourite albums of the 90s So many memories Mostly wasted

Here's a thing that's probably right up your Straße, you big mad oddball.x

This poem made me laugh: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... @strangehorizons.bsky.social

I just re-read The Shield of Achilles by WH Auden. My god that is a great poem.

Applications open for Company of Wolves' Autumn ongoing training group: Movement and Voice Lab - Autumn 2025

What a gent he was. Giles Havergal obituary

The Stupid-title of Stupid-titles.

Lyn Gardner on the difficulty of building on EdFringe success buff.ly/b6MTU6F

When buying an apartment is becoming impossible, we need to start discussing what went wrong.

Nearly finished reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss; near the end, this: "the key virtues of the internet are that it is not controlled by anyone, cannot be used as an instrument of oppression and is endlessly inclusive" Written in 2003. Times have changed a bit.

"reckless moral dwarves looking to make money off a convincing mimicry of thought and feeling." Brilliant, furious and incisive; from @albertburneko.bsky.social defector.com/butlerian-ji...

What idiot called it a bikini wax and not Bush Administration

I suspect that if they sell AI agents to enough people, the tech companies will degrade or impede direct internet access: so those who don't use AI agents can't conduct their lives; in the way that people who don't use the internet now can't conduct their lives. Am I wrong? @edzitron.com

Data, striving to represent, can never keep up

The Fringe 12: Going home on the train, humphing a giant duffel bag, looking forward to being home for a while. It's been fun. Now I need a rest. Look out for The Bacchae on tour next year.

The creative team of ALIEN (1979) were bound together by the film’s central question, first posed by H.R. Giger while he was getting double-teamed by two trans girls on acid: 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙗𝙤𝙮 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙩?

Overheard at the interval of Figures in Extinction: "Did you like that? It was sort of depressing." Possibly the title should have been a clue?

The Fringe 11: I have been reading The Dispossessed, by @ursulakleguin.com, a novel that contrasts a capitalistic, authoritarian world with an anarchist one. Both these systems: anarchist freedom, and capitalist exploitation, are present in the Fringe itself.

I saw this yesterday. Absolutely brilliant. Go. See. This. Show.

The Fringe 10: Is it just me, or is it weirdly quiet this week?

Thanks for this article today @lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social It has definitely felt like a struggle for audience this year, and it is useful to hear that this is something a lot of companies are feeling.

I'm nearly finished "The art of subtext" by Charles Baxter, published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social It is unbelievably brilliant. I can't remember a better nonfiction book, let alone book on writing craft. I don't want it to end (and yet it is so short)

The Fringe 9: I don't care about reviews (please give me a good review) I don't care about reviews (please give me a good review) Repeat ad infinitum.

Tempted to go see @ewandownie.com in @companyofwolves.org production of The Bacchae? Its in half price hut today - go to ticket office on the mile, it opens at 10am - say half price ticket for Bacchae and they'll sell you half price tickets! Sorted.

My first poem in print. "Holes" in Gutter 32. So proud. @gutter.bsky.social

The Fringe 8: TFW your kids are starting their next year of primary school and you are in another city doing a show.

Loved this production. Lyrical, dynamic and absolutely captivating. Well worth adding to your Edinburgh schedule.

This was truly intense and impressive. If you want a deeply engaging theatre piece at thd fringe, check it out. 5⭐

Watched this earlier today. Intense and poetic; a compelling bit of storytelling

Aaaand... A nomination for the Scottish Theatre Awards for The Bacchae! Nice.

Five stars for my solo piece, The Bacchae!

The Fringe 7: 6th show in a row today, but mysteriously, unlike the last few days, I woke up full of energy. Wind, and sun, and streets full of people. Today everything is bright.

The Fringe 6: I just saw Tom at the Farm. I am totally wrung out. 2h15 of high-grade, exquisitely performed, emotional nitric acid.

If you haven't read Ok Psyche, let me tell you it is unbelievably good.

The Fringe 5: After the show today my vision was blurry for about 2 hours, for some reason.

The Fringe 4: Overheard this show pitch "Two lesbians stuck in a time loop. A chain smoking deer. An hour of ego anxiety before dinner"

"I suspect that with the rise of A.I., people will seek out more real things. A concert. A play. An open mic. A shadow puppet show. Something made with hands and voices." 100% this

I have never been described as totally chill

@ewandownie.com just happened upon massive #TheBacchae poster, and is totally chill about it yep #AssemblyFestival @edfringe.bsky.social

"Can't pick up no crown Holding what's holding you down" Run the Jewels

The Fringe 3: Let the arrow fly

The Fringe 2: I have been trying to work out what my brain needs in the time when I'm not performing. Work? No. Writing? A bit, but not easy. Watching TV? Hard pass. Writing a website, apparently. I'm now teaching myself Statamic. Brains are weird.

God, I remember going to midnight screenings of Rocky Horror at the Grosvenor cinema in Glasgow in the 90s, when I was in high school. Amazing. ‘Everybody was fondling underwater!’: an oral history of the Rocky Horror Picture Show at 50

The Fringe 1: So we are selling scripts of my play, The Bacchae, after the show, and not only are they selling, but they people are asking for me to sign them... <must buy sharpies>