Just got something like my 19th and 20th emails from Bloomsbury asking me to opt-in to the addendum licensing my work for AI, and am hoping that if I keep ignoring the machines chasing me for an answer, they’ll be too busy to go stealing our stuff. That’s how it works right?

I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Our newest edition is out now! ✏️ (4/4) Building on our earlier conversation, this concluding thread reveals what more you can find in our latest issue (28.1)! #StayInformed #ExcitingNews

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

This is one of the most tin-eared and jargon-fueled things I have ever read. Apparently the chaos in Higher Education is a 'painful' 'realignment' towards 'efficiencies' that calls on us to be 'agile'. Hahahahaha. Did an AI write this? Unimpressive: a C-. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-f...

Stop doing this! Whoever is paying @timeshighered.bsky.social‬ for story after story is also funding environmental vandalism on a catastrophic scale. This isn't journalism, it's naive ethical bankruptcy - and intellectually and pedagogically obtuse.

Just aghast at people saying ‘student loans shouldn’t be forgiven because that’s unfair on people who already paid theirs off’. Others must suffer because I had to? This particularly toxic perversion of ‘fairness’ hits hard against empathy, grace, or any higher level social care.

This is an excellent book which you all should buy.

After a very long time, a collection I have been co-editing is very nearly ready to go into production. It is about reprints, revivals & dramatic renewal in 16th and 17th century English drama. Below you can see the book abstract and also the abstract for my chapter.

Our next plenary speaker is...Dr Peter Kirwan ✨ Dr Kirwan specialises in the textual and performance afterlives of early modern plays and will be speaking about reviewing Shakespeare at BritGrad. Tickets here! bit.ly/4dP3IqQ

If you're interested in production photography, check out your local library! Kimball’s recommendation is William Kenyon’s Theater & Stage Photography: A Guide to Capturing Images of Theatre, Dance, Opera, and Other Performance Events.

The online version of the NYT story about Brave Spirits's closing: www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/t...

ArenaPAL hosts a fascinating collection of production photography by Laurence Burns: www.arenapal.com/photographer...

Brave Spirits Theatre's production archive is available on the company website: www.bravespiritstheatre.com/resources/

"In my work at Brave Spirits Theatre, as both the resident dramaturg and production photographer, I had helped to build an archive of documents and photographs which memorialized our performances of early modern drama over several years.

"This essay developed in the wake of the pandemic when the theater company I’d been collaborating with suddenly closed due to the strains of lockdown.

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Claire Kimball’s open-access article, “Photographing Early Modern Drama in Performance: A Visual Dramaturgy.” Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article! 📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Had so much fun reviewing Arden of Faversham for the wonderful folks at @shaxbull.bsky.social Check it out if you are interested in original practices, or want to hear about some farcical stage violence!

The Guardian, epicentre of faux-feminist transphobic journalism, has published this cartoon today. A straw in the wind? Have the bigots, in their fully mask-off bloodlust this last week, finally over-reached? Or is this just more ‘both sides’ cover?

regardless of today’s outcome, it is morally indefensible to have a court ruling on something that affects a population, using evidence and findings that did not consult a single member of that population.

Very excited to have a performance review in this issue! Check it out if you are an Arden of Faversham or original practices aficionado! Many, many thanks to @shaxbull.bsky.social for being such a friendly and welcoming place to have a first publication!

Not at all concerning to learn that Universities UK are partnering with a company to sell an AI product that offers automated feedback on student work. Who needs staff?

Brave Spirits Theatre is featured in Claire Kimball's fascinating essay on her dual role as company dramaturg and production photographer. Shakespeare Bulletin has made this issue open access, so check it out!

I've got a little review of Cliff Cardinal's The Land Acknowledgement in this issue!

I am psyched about this new issue! 🙌🏼100% open access 🇺🇦special section of perf reviews from the Ukrainian Shakespeare Festival, curated by Jennifer Low 🎭articles by Claire Kimball & Jennifer T. Birkett highlight the labor of artists 🫀Pete & I argue for the value of human creativity & resilience

Happy to see Shakespeare Bulletin 42.4 out in the world! Thank you to @drpetekirwan.bsky.social and the reviewers for their supportive and helpful feedback. Thanks and ever thanks, as well, to BST for providing many years of rehearsal discoveries and performance joys.

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 42.4 features Claire Kimball's essay on visual dramaturgy, Jennifer Birkett's essay on the 50/50 Shakespeare project, and a special reviews section on the Ukrainian Shakespeare Festival. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53960

All conferences should be followed by a week of holiday... jumping late on the bandwagon to celebrate #shax2025! A special thank you to my fellow panelists @drpetekirwan.bsky.social, MJ Kidnie, & Ray Proctor -- it's an honour to share space and think with you all

Good galloping Providence, the Atheist’s Tragedy was a perfect piece of theater, #Shax2025. Who knew predestination could be so hilarious? Bravi, MBU MFAs! Woot!

Absolutely spectacular! Hilarious and then moving and then hilarious again. An absolute highlight of a fantastic #Shax2025.

If you're at #Shax2025 #RenSA2025 and interested in writing a Performance Review for @shaxbull.bsky.social, please feel free to come and find me over the next few days and say hello. Really happy to work with both experienced and first-time reviewers at any stage of their academic career ✍️🎭🙂

Hi everyone heading to #Shax2025 and #RSA2025 - don't miss your chance to see Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy on Saturday afternoon, in a wild four-person (+puppets) adaptation by Streetlight Shakespeare Ensemble. Some pics to whet the appetite (Miscellaneous Media Photography) - hope to see you there!

Wow, @kimgilchrist.bsky.social! A ‘fragment of a longer cue-script produced for amateur performance’ of *Mucedorus*! Great stuff! academic.oup.com/nq/advance-a...

@susananderson.bsky.social @harrymccarthy.bsky.social and I are excited to announce a CfP for Shakespeare/Movement for the Arden Shakespeare Intersections series. More info attached but if you'd like to grab Susan or me for more details or to discuss ideas @saaupdates.bsky.social then please do!

Evelyn Reidy reviews Almeida Theatre’s 2024 production of King Lear, dir. Yaël Farber. 🎭: almeida.co.uk/whats-on/kin... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/945042 📷: Marc Brenner

*Out now* 'The Winter's Tale: A Critical Reader' edited by @drpetekirwan.bsky.social & Todd Borlik contains cutting-edge essays covering critical and performance history as well as new scholarship on themes of ecology, hospitality, childhood, and racialisation in the play. bit.ly/4b3D2kN

NEW BARDATHON REVIEW: King Lear at the ASC makes bold cuts - no Albany, Cornwall, Burgundy, or France - leaving some tricky questions about the larger stakes of the world, but also making space for excellent performances, including Angela Iannone’s towering Lear drpeterkirwan.com/2025/02/22/k...

NEW BARDATHON REVIEW: A full production of Bartholomew Fair at the Blackfriars, inspired by the Muppets - and with a surprisingly poignant take on escaping religious oppression. drpeterkirwan.com/2025/02/18/b...

NEW BOOK! I am so excited to introduce The Winter’s Tale: A Critical Reader to the world. Feat. new essays on the play’s implications for border politics, critical race studies, ecocriticism, pedagogy and childhood studies, as well as surveys of the play’s critical and theatrical history.

Fletcher’s The Night-Walker is one of my favorite plays, and I’m thrilled to have finally seen it in performance - here’s my review of my MLitt students’ Victorian-set production, beautifully funny and with surprising heart: drpeterkirwan.com/2025/02/09/t...

The American Shakespeare Center’s new Little Women is a beautiful, moving production which has so much to offer the present moment in its exploration of the costs of doing the right thing, and the solidarity on which we depend. Here’s my review: cometothepedlar.home.blog/2025/02/08/t...

Arden of Faversham: A Critical Reader has arrived in paperback! I am so proud of this book, which works to apply the play to a wide range of issues: ecocriticism, critical race studies, labor relations, gender theory, colonial relations, intimate partner violence, and more. Please check it out!

Oh wow - everyone who said Conclave is amazing was totally right. It’s this year’s Anatomy of a Fall for me. Utterly compelling.

Bernard Charles Krumm reviews Bedlam’s 2024 production of The Assassination of Julius Caesar as told by William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw, dir. Eric Tucker. 🎭: www.tdf.org/shows/21382/... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/935861 📷: Ashley Garrett

Nic Helms reviews the Akpik Theatre Company’s 2023 production of A Community Telling of Pawâkan Macbeth: A Cree Takeover, dir. Reneltta Arluk. 🎭: akpiktheatre.com/pawakan-macb... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/935862 📷: Stoo Metz Photography

Contents page 1 of Shax/Play

Thanks to living in a far-off land these days it took a *lot* longer for my contributor copy of Shakespeare/Play to arrive…! Worth the wait though - so chuffed to be in the company of these amazing co-contributors and editor!

Neah Lekan reviews Sony Pictures’ 2023 film, Anyone But You, dir. Will Gluck. 🎭: www.sonypictures.com/movies/anyon... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/935860

It’s PUBLICATION DAY!!! 🥳 I’ll post a little teaser every day on each ch. In our introduction, Chloe Preedy & I…er…introduce vol. & explain what on earth possessed us to publish a book on a writer mostly associated ŵ prose in a PLAYS companion series. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526149466