Read this story till the end. During WWII some children were making diaries from concentration camps & occupied cities by nazis. History is repeating. This is a diary of Katya, a 16 years old girl from Mariupol, whose mother died in the basement👇😢
One month before Russia invaded Ukraine, I stood trial at the High Court. And now I wait, in purgatory, to be judged.
But I believe this trial and the silence around it - & all the Kremlin's men - has revealed something profoundly rotten at the heart of the British state.
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As someone born & raised in Odessa for roughly 1/3 of my life, who spent the other 2/3 in America, I know that most people don’t know much about Ukraine - which I get, I have many blind spots, so I thought I’d tweet some little basic things in case it helps make it real 🧵
Very happy to read out nominations for this award last night. It's great that the Offies raise the profile of theatre at a time when we need all the help we can get. Well done @BoxLessTheatre@theBarnTheatre & all who make young audiences a focus of their work.
However ...
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#OFFIES2022 announcing winner of #ONCOMM for theatre for for young people / families / those with special needs: finalists read by @thistimcrouch, 2021 winner for I, Cinna; 2022 winner is Private Peaceful from @theBarnTheatre & Boxless Theatre @BoxLessTheatre – congrats!
Almost 14 years after we performed a very early version of #OutOfTheBlue - our first ever show for babies here @kurtlizard & I are back in Darlington ready to fit up & perform a much-developed show later this week. It’s been to India, Australia & all over the UK in the interim 💙
10 February. First evening. My neighbour talks for hours with the landlady. Both speak softly, the landlady almost inaudibly, and therefore so much the worse. My writing, which has been coming along for the past two days, is interrupted, who
9 February. Wrote a little today and yesterday. Dog story.93 Just now read the beginning. It is. ugly and gives me a headache. In spite of all its truth it is wicked, pedantic, mechanical, a fish barely breathing on a sandbank. I write my Bouvard
Photo by the wonderful @KMTPhotographer of “The Man and the Stork” by Kafka. A performance in development funded by @Arts_Wales_ supported by @chaptertweets. Composer @samuel_barnes_ Movement by Zosia Jo @JoonDance. Mike Pearson / mentor
Photo by the wonderful @KMTPhotographer of “The Man and the Stork” by Kafka. A performance in development funded by @Arts_Wales_ supported by @chaptertweets. Composer @samuel_barnes_ Movement Zosia Jo@JoonDance . Mike Pearson/ mentor
On St. Brigid’s Day the new life could be entered…
They could feel the February air
Still soft above their heads and imagine The limp rope fray and flare like wind-born gleanings Or an unhindered goldfinch over ploughland.
1 February. Nothing, merely tired. The happiness of the truck driver, whose every evening is as mine has been today, and even finer. An evening, for example, stretched out on the stove. A man is purer than in the morning; the period before falling
This!!!! It’s so important at every single stage!! The best way to prepare a child to be 4 is to allow them to be 3 ! It’s true of every stage though. I am passionate about this!!