Amazing new trailer for Verbranntes Land (Salty Irina) at Schauspielhaus Vienna. Last shows of the season are selling fast, but we’re back in the next season if you miss us! vimeo.com/1093775491

remember when neville chamberlain though the czechs were overreacting about the sudetenland?

Ramadan Mubarak to all who celebrate!

If you don’t already like Zelenskyy enough: He said "fuck you bitch (suka, blyat)" to JD Vance during their argument.

Entitled thief “Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

The Heritage Foundation ghouls want to know what YOU think about the illegal DOGE effort to destroy the American government! Let them know! secured.heritage.org/the-heritage...

I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date

I had, as it turns out, a voluminous quantity of words to say about the National Endowment for the Arts demanding fealty to Trump in their new grant guidelines (with side tangents into Robert Mapplethorpe, the Eight of Swords in tarot, compliance and resistance, and why budgets are moral documents)

This is fascinating… T-rump really is/was the perfect mark for the KGB. Now coming to full fruition with current Ukraine carve up. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Second-gen Ukrainian chat

Murder sock

The Murdochs’ courtroom battle for control of their media empire has unfolded almost entirely in secret. But 3,000 pages of the trial record obtained by The New York Times reveal bitterness and betrayal that not even writers of “Succession” could conjure.

Murder sock

The btch is back

Had a little waffle about #Instinct and #TrustingYourInstinct for #Playwrights & #Screenwriters #WritersSurvivalTips www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRuP...

Oops 😬

Andrea Long Chu is everything. The principles of the “far centre” are so hard to express and she does it so beautifully

Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia will tomorrow permanently disconnect from Russia’s power grid. Russia can no longer use energy as a tool of blackmail. This is a victory for freedom and European unity.

In a week with full of brutal work news, I’m stupidly happy to say that soon you will be able to see Flächenbrand (English: Wildfire Road) at another German theatre! Thank you for adopting my hijacking time-travelling demon baby, Germany.

Best thing anyone’s said to me about the current emergencies. “Writing matters because someone needs to write the truth of our times, because we will be told it didn’t happen.” @csvich.bsky.social

Ah yes, freedom of speech in the land of the First Amendment. This is what the First Amendment is explicitly for — to stop the _government_ from censoring your speech.

If you’re interested in theatre in translation, you might like this article by my German translator Henning Bochert about translating my play Salty Irina for Schauspielhaus Wien henningbochert.de/en/2025/01/e...

Hey @markoosterveen.bsky.social so cool you got to work with David Lynch

I've been doom-mongering about this for a while. The liberal humanist trend in literary publishing to be anti-AI bc soul/empathy/unique (rather than theft/turbocapitalism/surveillance) leads to artisan sourdough pricing & gatekeeping. But not to more support for writers as workers.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

ALL the U.S. Inspector Generals that Trump just tried to fire are refusing to leave their post (because he does not have the legal right to fire them) and are telling him to get fucked. Brava.

Imagine if taking care of each other was considered central to defending people’s lives

Made up that my demon child Flächenbrand (English: Wildfire Road) is having another German run! Get yourselves to Lüneburg from…er…yesterday til July if you want to see it. Cast of 24 this time - biggest professional cast yet, I know we’re gonna make it to the full 416!

Thought I was too old to care about shitty American accents onstage but guess what motherfuckers

How can I find out more about the translation history of Chekhov in English - how he became the primary Russian-language playwright of the English-speaking world? Feels like you nerds should know

It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and keeps donating vast sums of money to neo-nazis across the world, but hey, who can say who can say if it’s a duck or (falls through an open manhole) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Support Equity ‘s call to scrap the Minimum Income Floor in Universal Credit. It's pushing creative workers out of the arts, disabled workers out of work, and claimants into poverty. buff.ly/4h9EljI #ScrapTheMIF megaphone.org.uk/petitions/abol… via @megaphoneuk

As the rabbis say, every life saved is a world

YOU MUST TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS TO HAVE STRENGTH TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES.

Today and in the coming days, remember

Did you know that when the New York Times first reported on Hitler, they reported that his Anti-Semitism was all for show, and wasn't actually as violent as it seemed?

Come on. I think I would know if my friend BasedHitler88 was a Nazi

Fwiw I found this book helpful for understanding the relationship between Nazis and billionaires.

“Salutes” is it

The generation which thought media studies was some snowflaky fad is persistently conned by the media it consumes, weird

Like she was RIGHT to not share she is trans because when she did they fucking stabbed her for it

FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE love you forever David Lynch

The ceasefire is welcome. So welcome! Thank goodness. But there has to be accountability now. There has to be justice. No justice no peace. And all the people harmed deserve peace.

I think it’s very important for Republican women to know that Pete Hegseth’s accuser is a married mom and a highly respected Republican aide, who went to the police immediately after the assault. They still don’t believe her. Your fascism will not save you from their misogyny.

"In unexpected development, Torment Nexus used for torment."

Labour dealing a massive fucking blow to the arts just showing no respect to it at all just seeing it as a resource to be mined. Anyway thank fuck no major potter ever promoted keir starmer during his campaigning ey

Something all social networks eventually learn about me is that I want social media to be a joke dispenser. I used to think twitter was great because it was nothing but jokes whenever you wanted them. Then it imploded, I joined IG and Bluesky, and slowly, they have become nothing but jokes too.

Over on X, I'm receiving antisemitic death threats and being told they don't break the platform's rules. To British MPs that follow me, this is a brazen violation of the Online Safety Act. Please ensure the rule of law is enforced against Elon Musk and X. No business should be above the law.

New essay by me – I argue that the best way to understand artificial intelligence is via the Tinkerbell Effect. This technology's existence requires us to keep channeling our psychic energy into the dreams of mega-corporations, tech billionaires, and venture capitalists: futurism.com/ai-tinkerbell

118 years ago today in Warsaw, the great mystic and revolutionary Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was born. It is impossible to summarise all he gave us. Instead I’ll say that I long to carry out his legacy and hope to raise my kid to do the same. Read anything he ever wrote. We are blessed he lived.