Ewan Downie
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Theatre-maker, writer, dad; joint artistic director of
@companywolves.org
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.
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Company of Wolves
10 days ago
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!
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Company of Wolves
15 days ago
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
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So proud to have been involved in Close, the Citizens' Young Company show about the legendary Close Theatre. On until Saturday. Close | Citizens Theatre
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Close | Citizens Theatre
Young Co. takes you on a journey back to the legendary Close Theatre as we look at the heritage of the Citizens Theatre.
https://citz.co.uk/whats-on/close/
about 1 month ago
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Drinking the
@stfermentations.bsky.social
Foreign Extra Stout I've been saving. Crikey that's a good beer.
about 1 month ago
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Listening to Dubnobasswithmyheadman by
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One of my favourite albums of the 90s So many memories Mostly wasted
about 2 months ago
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Bryan Blessed
about 2 months ago
Here's a thing that's probably right up your Straße, you big mad oddball.x
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This poem made me laugh:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
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A Distressing Absence of Eyes
Hello! Impoliteness is not intended.
http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/a-distressing-absence-of-eyes/
2 months ago
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I just re-read The Shield of Achilles by WH Auden. My god that is a great poem.
2 months ago
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Applications open for Company of Wolves' Autumn ongoing training group: Movement and Voice Lab - Autumn 2025
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Movement and Voice Lab - Autumn 2025
MOVEMENT & VOICE LAB AUTUMN 2025 Five evening sessions of weekly training Tuesdays 30 Sept, 7, 14, 21 & 28 Oct from 18:30-20:30 Queen's Park Govanhill Parish Church 170 Queen's Drive, Glasgow G42 8QZ
https://buff.ly/A6ivJZK
2 months ago
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What a gent he was. Giles Havergal obituary
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Giles Havergal obituary
Artistic director of the Glasgow Citizens theatre with a reputation for extravagant productions and a daring repertoire
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2 months ago
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Adam Roberts
3 months ago
The Stupid-title of Stupid-titles.
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Lyn Gardner on the difficulty of building on EdFringe success
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Lyn Gardner on the difficulty of building on EdFringe success
Every year there is truly excellent work on the fringe, which deserves to be widely seen. But that’s getting harder, says Lyn Gardner.
https://buff.ly/b6MTU6F
3 months ago
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David Graeber Institute
3 months ago
When buying an apartment is becoming impossible, we need to start discussing what went wrong.
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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.
3 months ago
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"reckless moral dwarves looking to make money off a convincing mimicry of thought and feeling." Brilliant, furious and incisive; from
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Butlerian Jihad Now | Defector
Maybe some things should not be simulated. That is my takeaway—one of them, anyway—from a Tuesday New York Times story by Kashmir Hill about the death by suicide of a California teenager named Adam Ra...
https://defector.com/butlerian-jihad-now
3 months ago
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Mollie Goodfellow
3 months ago
What idiot called it a bikini wax and not Bush Administration
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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?
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3 months ago
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Meredith Whittaker
3 months ago
Data, striving to represent, can never keep up
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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.
3 months ago
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🏳️⚧️ Josephine Riesman 🕎
about 2 years ago
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?
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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?
3 months ago
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The Fringe 11: I have been reading The Dispossessed, by
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, 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.
3 months ago
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I saw this yesterday. Absolutely brilliant. Go. See. This. Show.
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3 months ago
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The Fringe 10: Is it just me, or is it weirdly quiet this week?
3 months ago
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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.
3 months ago
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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)
3 months ago
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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.
3 months ago
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remotecore
3 months ago
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.
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My first poem in print. "Holes" in Gutter 32. So proud.
@gutter.bsky.social
3 months ago
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The Fringe 8: TFW your kids are starting their next year of primary school and you are in another city doing a show.
3 months ago
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Neil Williamson
3 months ago
Loved this production. Lyrical, dynamic and absolutely captivating. Well worth adding to your Edinburgh schedule.
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E.M. Faulds / Beth
3 months ago
This was truly intense and impressive. If you want a deeply engaging theatre piece at thd fringe, check it out. 5⭐
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EC Hallewell
3 months ago
Watched this earlier today. Intense and poetic; a compelling bit of storytelling
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Aaaand... A nomination for the Scottish Theatre Awards for The Bacchae! Nice.
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3 months ago
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Five stars for my solo piece, The Bacchae!
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3 months ago
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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.
3 months ago
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The Fringe 6: I just saw Tom at the Farm. I am totally wrung out. 2h15 of high-grade, exquisitely performed, emotional nitric acid.
3 months ago
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If you haven't read Ok Psyche, let me tell you it is unbelievably good.
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3 months ago
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The Fringe 5: After the show today my vision was blurry for about 2 hours, for some reason.
3 months ago
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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"
3 months ago
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"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
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3 months ago
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I have never been described as totally chill
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3 months ago
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Company of Wolves
3 months ago
@ewandownie.com
just happened upon massive
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poster, and is totally chill about it yep
#AssemblyFestival
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"Can't pick up no crown Holding what's holding you down" Run the Jewels
3 months ago
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The Fringe 3: Let the arrow fly
3 months ago
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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.
3 months ago
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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
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‘Everybody was fondling underwater!’: an oral history of the Rocky Horror Picture Show at 50
Mick Jagger wanted to play Frank-N-Furter, Susan Sarandon got pneumonia, and the cast were wet and half-naked most of the time. Richard O’Brien, Barry Bostwick, Patricia Quinn and Nell Campbell tell…
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4 months ago
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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>
4 months ago
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