A new play from Københavns Shakespeare Kompagni.

Investing our time and effort into costume is...worth it.

I am everyone in this picture

@snellarthur.bsky.social more podcasts with a drunken Sweeney please.

The Daughters of Lear. Coming in 2026.

Please stop pretending to be breaking boundaries. Have the courage to just say we're going to do a conventional play really well and you'll have a good evening. There's nothing wrong with that, and if that's what you want/need to do don't try to sell some leap into the unknown. #yesimtalkingtoyou

Prospero is coming

Shakespeare's home in Copenhagen now has solid wooden seats. Less a wooden O and more a wooden dash, but we're excited to welcome an audience onto them.

Benches. Solid wood benches. You want to watch theatre? Get yeself a solid wooden bench

A massive pile of wood that will become the seats for my theatre.

House liiiiiiights

If Lin Manuel Miranda had any courage at all he'd cast Charlie Day as Peggy.

The RSC pushing their bald agenda

A Trilogy?

When our actors get nominated for awards it's always nice. When that actors is Jessica O’Hara-Baker we're not overly surprised.

I would start with four early comedies, move onto the problem plays; then the four great tragedies and finally the late romances (Cymbeline, Winter's Tale, Pericles) ending with The Tempest. After that you really have to do the history plays in a sensible order. Then LLL and the rest.

Ok Shakespeare nerds, you're putting on every play, 4 per year, autumn, winter spring, summer. What is your order?

Gym goals

I should bite an onion and taste apple before I listen to you about love.

Is it high art or does it just make me feel bad?

We're auditioning 19 people tomorrow, and have the sameish number of self tapes. I must go to bed.

Therapy for lonely gods

If you cast Indira Varma as Jocasta then I fail to see the problem. I feel like everyone would give Oedipus a break you know, like don't do it again Ody but leave your eyes alone mate.

Theatre should do what only theatre can do. It is unambiguously happening in front of you, the words you are hearing are being spoken now, the people are there, it is real. People will always want to experience this....

Spent the last month writing a play in Danish. My brain is running out of my ears.

December 1st

I just got a new job at Disney, I'm now head of the department which checks that the characters' names don't mean "dicks" in other languages.

999 theatre people and 1 sword obsessive. I got your Capo Ferro

This is really lovely and I recommend you listen

This too shall pass said the urologist

Bluesky continues to grow so please share this so that european theatre makers see it and join it! Mange tak, danke, merci, hvala go.bsky.app/Cz4onhE

Well, I have "The Myth of the Singular Moment" - a two-hander play with songs about parallel worlds, impossible choices and quantum immortality... the songs are on Spotify. It'd be lovely to take it about the place! open.spotify.com/album/7KkVNA...

We are on insta theladder_rr :)

Anyone want to make a touring network of tiny theatres which specialise in two handers and monologues so that people can take a bag and a train and tour a show all over Europe? Anyone?

If Van Gogh had been alive in the era of album covers he wouldn't have died poor.

(1)948 Windrush Legacies Grant £2500 (to 2 recipients) to UK based creative / cultural practitioners who are direct descendants of the Windrush generation, helping to bring to life a project that explores the theme of legacy. Deadline for apps 1st December. 948collective.com/WINDRUSH-LEG...

I think writers' meet-ups would be more successful if writers enjoyed leaving their houses or talking to people.

Watching Nye om National Thetare at Home was a bit of a tonic. Everyone knew they were on a stage...which shouldn't be refreshing but absolutely is.

Just do the play well. Just do it well. Have a wild concept if you actually have a concept but when you don't...Just...do the play well.

Titania in English, dansk og norsk. From Københavns Shakespeare Kompagni. Performed by Sarah Dahl Hasselgren and Siri Gussiås Nerland. #shakespearesunday #multilingualtheatre

The most comfortable costume that has ever been made, filled with me, playing twenty years later Romeo in Mistakes Were Made, earlier this year.

Sickness reigns. The child vomits. So here are thoughts on sing 2. Gunter remains the only professional. The Alice in Wonderland that they abandon is significantly better than the show they end up doing. 25 is too many children

Attempting to gather Shakespeareans- please reach out with additions as you find them! Still many authors and publishers not here. I hope that changes soon… go.bsky.app/DT4J8Ky

Writers, what’s your first rule for writing? (That you wish you follow more often.)

Sometimes there is music

I love Moss from the IT Crowd as much as the next 40 year old but there is such a thing as an overcorrection Mr Jaguar

I should be writing, but there is snow.

Traps in theatre and theatre company management. I'd love to talk to people about this, because there seem to be many traps (100 seaters, certain funding schemes) but...are they? And where are the others? More experieced theatre people, want to talk?

Are you European or make theatre in Europe? Are you professional (you can be pro and broke)? Ask me to be added. All languages welcome. Please share. go.bsky.app/Cz4onhE