Day 3 at the stunning Gripsholm Castle with its Royal Theatre at the top of a tower (having replaced the chapel!)

Day 2 of the Conference by Candlelight in Stockholm at the lovely Confidencen Theatre - real candles in wings, footlights and suspended over the front of the stage #theatrelighting #stagelighting

Return visit a decade on to Drottningholm Theatre (1766) as part of the Stockholm Conference by Candlelight - here with a demonstration of what happens when the window shutters at the rear of the auditorium are opened #stagelighting

Today marks the end of our production of Here’s the story… our 1st year performance at stage@leeds created through a rich period of devising and experimentation at @universityofleeds.bsky.social

It’s #lightday2026 Here’s our anthology Contemporary Performance Lighting: experience, creativity and meaning @methuendrama.bsky.social We are very proud of championing a wide range of new thinking about the creative use of light www.bloomsbury.com/uk/contempor... @unesco.bsky.social

Published today ! @methuendrama.bsky.social a timely contribution and a great addition to our Performance + Design series #XR

Lovely back projections for #MaisiePeters Before the Bloom launch event - an ‘intimate’ performance at EartH

Creative health programmes are helping to improve the UK's health & wellbeing, providing new work opportunities for creatives & saving the NHS money. Read our new report, from the CIC & @artscouncilengland.bsky.social. www.thecreativeindustries.co.uk/download-hub/health-wellbeing-forum-report

@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social Trying to make contact but all emails to Bloomsbury colleagues are currently bouncing back

90 years ago today. Great grandfather Albert was instrumental in the early days of Chelsea Football Club and also father to Olympian, world record holding sprinter and radical champion for women’s sport Vera Palmer/Searle

The system is broken

#RIP Robert Wilson 📷 Annie Leibovitz The Watermill Center, Water Mill NY, 1994 “Nobody walks away from working with Robert Wilson without having completely changed.” - Tom Waits

Congratulations to Emilie Morin on the publication of her biography of Suzanne Beckett, offering the first full portrait of this elusive figure. It is free to download for the next two weeks tinyurl.com/54n3ztmv

Our permanent German lectureship now has an extended deadline of 21st July. Apply here: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Out now: 'Research and Development in British Theatre' edited by Tom Cantrell, @katherinegraham.bsky.social, Karen Quigley & Mark Love-Smith explores how R&D is used in contemporary British theatre-making and how you can use it in your own theatre-making. bit.ly/4iXKr7i

"Without a clear vision for culture in a post-Brexit context, the UK risks leaving large parts of its creative sector without the support they need to survive." ✍️ Kirsty Warner and @husseinkassim.bsky.social explore the impact of Brexit on the creative industries ukandeu.ac.uk/how-uk-creat...

Still recovering from that amazing finish yesterday

A day full of memories. Fabulous to catch up with ex-colleagues and students at our event today - trying to trace the ethos and legacy of Bretton Hall College…

Delighted to share this piece I’ve written for The Stage, which explores how we might better centre and value design-led performance within the UK’s theatre ecology.

Planning a show for #EdFringe 2025? Join Theatre Green Book for a free 1-hour webinar on how to make your production more sustainable. Tools, tips, inspiration, and space for questions. Thurs 29 May, 2–3pm Thurs 19 June, 10–11am 👉 theatregreenbook.com/events1/edin... #GreenBook

👀 Lecturer post and new degree programme at RCSSD www.cssd.ac.uk/jobs-at-cent...

Last night of our relational performance following a semester of experimentation and devising. The Cherry Orchard at stage@leeds

Happy International Day of Light ! #lightday2025

🎉 Hello World 🌎🌍🌏 Today marks the 8th edition of the @unesco.org #lightday2025 celebrating the profound impact of light science, innovation and technology in society. How will you celebrate the brilliance of light today? Tag us on socials. #lightday2025✨ lightday.org

Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.

Major news story that strangely doesn’t seem to have been noticed by our mainstream media - tells you all you need to know about the UK right now…

Can’t believe that it’s exactly a decade since @davidshearing.bsky.social and me staged The Dreaming - a devised 1:1 experience based on Peer Gynt. Ambitious, risk taking and dramaturgically bold- the best work I’ve seen by students @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Today, we publish ‘Higher Education and the Arts and Culture Sectors’ the latest report in our State of the Nations series. The report is written by Dr Siobhan McAndrew, Dr Mark Taylor and Dr Ruoxi Wang from the University of Sheffield with Prof Dave O’Brien from the University of Manchester.

I am hiring :-). I look for a PhD student & a postdoc for my new Digital Lives team at the U of Basel. Looking for 2 who are excited to study our everyday digital lives with me in the next years. Please share with your network. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell... jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

Pennies are essentially worthless. But if I stole 7 billion of them from Mark Zuckerberg, I think he’d call that theft. If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in busiess — you’re in organized crime.

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

Decline of drama at school prompts UK training drive for backstage work

A key contributor to our Contemporary Performance Lighting volume is the most-lauded individual in #Olivier awards history. Paule Constable has received 17 nominations, and won her 6th award tonight for Oliver! (shared with Ben Jacobs) & announced her retirement from theatre earlier this year.

Theatre-loving followers, could you help us out - what are your favourite ever show posters? Current, recent, or historic… specific productions or designers… we’d love to hear, for an upcoming piece!

Happy #WorldTheatreDay youtu.be/US9zDDwcyhw?...

Komorebi - Japanese word that describes dappled sunlight filtering through the leaves of trees

Sneaky photo from the balcony of tonight MA Performance Design students’ performance of The Sixth Extinction stage.leeds.ac.uk/events/the-s...

Public higher ed ys the infrastructure of democracye. It ys tyme for a movement to re-invest yn public higher ed as a common goode. Excellent college educacioun shoulde be accessible and affordable to everye student who doth choose to pursue it.

Leeds PhD student finally released after 4 years in detention for posting tweets on holiday in support of women’s rights

"To be gripped by his statements is precisely the aim of their utterance. We are in some ways in its thrall when it captures and paralyzes us. While there is every reason to be outraged, we cannot let that outrage flood us and stop our minds." (Judith Butler reminds us why the performative matters.)

The Arts and Theatre Institute in Prague is under imminent threat of closer/merger. Please sign this petition to support our colleagues and demonstrate the international cultural significance of this organisation eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Charing Cross Road, pedestrianised today. Glorious. Because whenever you take cars away, cities get better.

It’s now been two years since publication of Contemporary Performance Lighting: experience, creativity, meaning @methuendrama.bsky.social We are very proud of championing this range of new thinking about light www.bloomsbury.com/uk/contempor...

The Czech Arts & Theatre Institute (ATI) in Prague is under threat of closure by the end of June - a public announcement is planned next month. Solidarity with Czech theatre researchers www.idu.cz/en

Happy Lunar New Year - especially to those turning 60 in the new year of the wood snake

First day back in the studio today with undergraduates - it’s been a while… Also - “Is my lecturer really citing Gracie Abrams?” Uh…yes he is! #mood

“Only 4% of creative arts students from working-class backgrounds, report says” great to see the Cambridge Varsity looking at @suttontrust.bsky.social recent report on access to creative HE www.varsity.co.uk/news/28945

🚨 "Ministers have rejected calls for the UK to move closer to the EU in order to boost economic growth, insisting that Brexit has brought “opportunities” and some benefits for the British economy.” Imagine the shock when they see this

“When the dark comes rising, six shall turn it back…” It’s 20 Dec—Winter Solstice Eve—& the day Susan Cooper’s great, cult novel The Dark Is Rising opens. Simon McBurney & I co-adapted a 12-part audio-drama of Susan’s novel. You can listen along, an ep a day, here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Award-winning actor, writer and director Mark Gatiss OBE has been honoured with a degree from the University of Leeds to recognise his contributions to culture and performance 🎓 He studied Theatre Arts at Bretton Hall College, which became Leeds' School of Performance and Cultural Industries 🎭