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.

Sending lots of luck and best wishes to those waiting for exam results tomorrow! At @royalholloway.bsky.social, we have an expert team ready to answer any queries and help you make the choices right for you. I can’t wait to meet the new Drama students! ✨✨ www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...

Rising satisfaction amongst our postgraduate researchers ↗️ We've recorded our highest result in the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) since 2017, with 85% of postgraduate researchers rating their overall experience positively. More: ow.ly/yAFK50WBeX6

Two great new additions to @methuendrama.bsky.social’s Student Editions series: Lorraine Hansberry’s ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ (introduced by Isaiah Matthew Wooden) & Kwame Kwei-Armah’s ‘Beneatha’s Place’ (introduced by Oladipo Agboluaje) 👏👏 Details here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/student-editions

[COLL] 19-21.06.25 / Konstanz New Stages for Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Theatre 5 RADAC members (@anjahartl.bsky.social, X. Lemoine, @chris-megson.bsky.social, A. Rousseau & @ecco0210.bsky.social) participate in the annual congress of our sister society, CDE! cde-2025.de/programme/

In everyone some kind of artist is hiding. ~CG Jung, 𝘊.𝘎. 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴

The MA Directors & BA Actors @royalholloway.bsky.social shared the results of their creative collab today with stagings of (pics 1-4) Henrik Ibsen’s WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN, Eugene O’Neill’s THE HAIRY APE, Sam Steiner’s LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS, and Lucy Prebble’s THE EFFECT. Bravo to all! 🙌✨

The MA Directors & BA Actors @royalholloway.bsky.social are sharing the fruits of the 2nd week of their creative collaboration. Performances today (pics 1-3): Chris Bush’s FAUSTUS: THAT DAMNED WOMAN, Edward Albee’s THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA? & Patrick Hamilton’s GASLIGHT. A fantastic day! 👏

For no particular reason, the change from a Franciscan to an Augustinian Pope has reminded me of the line in Frasier when Niles stands in for him in his show. “While Frasier is a Freudian, I am a Jungian - so there’ll be no blaming mother today”. #leoxiv

The MA Directors & BA Actors @royalholloway.bsky.social are sharing the fruits of their creative collaboration over the next three Fridays. First up today (pics 1-3): scenes from Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s EMILIA, Ella Hickson’s SWIVE [ELIZABETH], & Caryl Churchill’s LOVE AND INFORMATION. Terrific! 👏👏

Just landing in the Student Editions series from @methuendrama.bsky.social! Philip McMahon’s powerful and life-affirming ‘Once Before I Go’, with a terrific introduction from Fintan Walsh that includes an interview with McMahon. ✨ Further info: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/st...

There are now 100+ plays in the Methuen Drama Student Editions series and these are just some of the latest publications! Proud to be one of the series editors - there’s much more to come! @methuendrama.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Delighted to be giving this lecture (online) this week to research students of Modern British Drama and English Literature/Linguistics at Chungbuk National University in South Korea. The event is curated by the wonderful Heebon Park-Finch & funded by Dept of English Language & Literature. 🙏

Primavera! ✨❤️

Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the (psyche) soul. ~James Hillman, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘺𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘴

Day 2 of the Finalist Festival of drama and theatre @royalholloway.bsky.social! On the menu: surrealist dance, absurdist political theatre, a nightmarish adaptation of Dorian Gray, and a riotous feminist farce on witch-hunting. It’s been a fantastic event - huge congrats to all involved! ✨💐👏👏

From gig theatre to Greek tragedy and multimedia performance. Scenes from the fantastic first day of the Finalist Festival of drama and theatre @royalholloway.bsky.social. More tomorrow! ✨✨✨

Pleased to have an essay in this new book on Dennis Kelly’s writing for stage and screen. Congratulations to Jacqueline Bolton and Nicholas Holden, who’ve edited the volume with such care and rigour. 👏

Carl Jung, reading him will change you

The latest addition to the Student Editions series from @methuendrama.bsky.social is now out! Willy Russell’s classic hit ‘Blood Brothers’ with a smart and insightful new introduction from editor Rebecca Hillman. 👏 More about the series (which I co-edit) here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/st...

On Sunday, as light fades to dusk in the hallowed week of the Ides of March, the statue on the roof of the London Palladium raises her staff and summons Luna, the moon goddess, to the delight of applauding crowds across the capital. ✨👏👏✨

I should have posted this a while back but … the latest issue of JCDE is out! It’s a great pleasure to be on the editorial team of this journal and there’s a strong line up of essays and reviews in this new issue! 👌✨ www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...

Hosted by @royalholloway.bsky.social, the Platform journal is dedicated to publishing the work of doctoral, postdoc & entry-level academics in theatre & performance. The latest issue, on the theme of 'Gatherings', is out now, edited by Milo Harries & Grace Joseph. Bravo! www.platform-gatherings.com

🧵 cartoon comment from around the world

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

It’s 20 years since Howard Barker published his bracing polemic on theatre and death, and the necessity of tragedy in a culture of relentless death denial. It’s a wonderful read: taut, austere, a vision of the inexhaustible theatrical image.

Rainy day but gorgeous view @royalholloway.bsky.social on way to a meeting. 🙌

One of the many difficulties faced by medieval women was having to leave bad dates via castle windows.

‘On the third attempt, digging between the filing cabinets, they struck lucky.’ If you dig anywhere in the City of London you’ll eventually awaken the Romans, but to unearth the basilica is extra special. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here we see the incursion of yellow into a landscape of grey, with the assistance of orange. This is usually the first sign of spring in Clapham Junction.

We have 2 scholarships available for our MMus (Master of Music) at Royal Holloway, covering tuition fees for UK students starting in Sept 25. This is a 1 year course with specialisms in Composition, Performance, Musicology/Ethnomusicology, Music Management, Film/TV/Game Music, & Collaborative Piano.

Royal Holloway is at its best when the order and symmetry of its architecture meet rolling clouds and a wuthering sky. @royalholloway.bsky.social

Rain and reflections outside Founder’s Building. Love this tree! @royalholloway.bsky.social

@annedecork.bsky.social 👋🤩

Ah yes, it's 12th January. The anniversary of Samuel and Elisabeth Pepys' famed battle of the red-hot tongs (before making up and chatting in bed till late at night). Very sadly, Elizabeth died later that year, 1669, of typhoid.

Much to admire in ‘Nosferatu’: the crepuscular world of ‘medieval devilry’ in first contact with the ‘gaseous light of science’; the optics of icy monochrome ruptured by blistering intensities of flame; Nosferatu as infernal & internal, monster without & shadow within. And follow the money! 👏👏

‘Hiemal’ - of or relating to winter, wintry. Hiemal light, a quality of clarity and stillness generated by cold; the Thames in Richmond.

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Perfect midwinter read and a tonic to the tinsel! An odyssey through the ancient shadow-side of Christmas: Kalends and Saturnalia, guisings and hoodenings, Krampus Runs, mummers plays and the Feast of Fools. Christmas cut loose from the Victorians! Congrats @readingartefacts.bsky.social 👏✨

Wishing everyone a very happy and fulfilling new year! ✨✨

Francesco Queirolo (1704-1762) - Il Disinganno (Marble) (Cappella Sansevero)

Such an absorbing, inspiring and incisive dialogue from two of the most accomplished writers on Jung. Perfect reading for the Winter solstice - a day of entombment in the dark, but with light intensifying on the horizon.

I’m always interested in collective dreaming - & I think this collective drone freak out - like the scary clown sightings of 2016 - speak to what the wider community fears & hopes for in this next era. The 1st Trump presidency was a Scary Clown presidency I wonder what these sightings presuppose

I'M WRITING THIS FAIRLY BIG BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE HARD OF HEARING.

Delighted to hear this since the old zebras were frankly a menace, galloping across the roads at all hours with their ghastly gazelle friends.

Since 1946, this amateur theatre group in London has performed excerpts from the medieval English mystery play cycles each December - I’ve been attending for more than a decade. Given me a sense of the verve & distinctiveness of the Wakefield, Chester, York & N-Town play cycles. Much appreciated! 👏

Two luminous trees either side of the River Thames this evening - Victoria Tower Gardens in Westminster, and Vauxhall station. Bright light, Winter night. 🎄

To be added to the starter pack, those involved with any kind of depth psychology eg jungian, freudian, archetypal, adlerian, existential, psychodynamic, humanistic, transpersonal, et all... leave your request below go.bsky.app/RdMLtWs