I’ve got photos. I’ll check! But I doubt it. My memory is that it was a rather darker aesthetic…

Sex and drugs and poisoned champagne: 90 years on, we can finally see Joan Crawford’s wildest film A legal dispute led to Letty Lynton, the golden age superstar’s controversial drama, being sealed away. Only now can audiences see what all the fuss was about

Extraordinay. In the Broadway production, the leading role was played by my great great aunt, Katherine Cornell.

Dario Fo in Morte Accidentale di un Anarchico [Accidental Death of an Anarchist] in 1970. The photo shows him taking the phone away from his ear and laughing with his brilliant huge comic teeth.

Happy 100th birthday to the late and undeniably great Dario Fo, the great proof that you can be deeply, politically radical, raising consciousness, stimulating rage and understanding in equal measure... and still be funny as fuck.

That’s the one.

Yes, quite! Husband is the cheekiest chappy in the line - on the left.

Husband is showing his scrapbook to our children, and - delightfully - @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social turns up!

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Run around topless and shrieking at midnight, and you have to dress the part, with at least one blacked out tooth and Rice Krispies stuck to your face. For a week. Bliss.

I’ve come up with a brilliant new holiday concept for menopausal women. It’s called ‘Witch for a Week’. You rent a shack in a wood, popular with weekend walkers, who you wail at, and call down curses upon, and fling toads at as they pass. You boil up revolting brews…

I’ve no idea, but she ain’t no lady!

Brilliant! I suspect this is going to result in Shit of the Dump in our house.

Intrigued now…what was it?

This is brilliant news! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

My daughter says: Stig of the Dump.

Awww…I can see him in you.

"It’s rather cruel to ask why government should ‘prop up’ the arts, it’s their duty to promote the cultural well-being of the nation in the same way as we support the health of the nation with the NHS. These things are deeply connected. To separate them out doesn’t make sense to me."

Speaking to the Times this week, Emma Thompson has urged the government to back the arts like it backs the NHS.

Read more here: www.thetimes.com/culture/thea...

#FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #TheArts #Culture #ArtsAndCulture

The big man, Bertolt Brecht

Happy birthday to the big man, Bertolt Brecht! 🥳

Yep. At its best we talked to each other. Now it feels as if we talk at each other.

The Last Picture at York Theatre Royal is a miniature triumph: writing, acting, direction, design all holding your eye in kind but devastating insistence to what needs to be seen.

Restored angel fresco resembling Italian PM Meloni sparks investigation The artist has denied modelling the fresco on the prime minister.

Priceless. Has anyone told them about the Medicis?

Restored angel fresco resembling Italian PM Meloni sparks investigation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’ve received an email from Admin asking me to accept the student supervision spreadsheet as the ‘single source of truth’. I guess that’s the Philosophy and Theology Departments done for.

Very happy to report that both series of Home are now back available on the Channel 4 website. Check it out, now more than ever.

If you had the misfortune to watch ‘Jay Kelly’, and thought ‘surely there’s a better film about actors struggling to be themselves’, there is - and it’s an old one. ‘My Favourite Year’, starring Peter O’Toole. A touching, hilarious work of genius.

With respect, no - it can’t. FFS.

I endorse this 100%.

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Keep up the good work, ladies - it’ll pay off eventually.

Crufts?

There is a squirrel who phwangs madly around our garden, and my children have named him Speedy Wonder.