It is a bit silly. Like if you think it would be odd for characters/actors to be smiling at the end of a tragedy, it’s odder for them to be bobbing up and down in front of an applause…

I THINK this is a particular ask from particular directors…

between the weather and the bank holiday and the president threatening genocide, I am finding it mighty hard to get back into the swing of work, I must say

Girl, are you a trans-lunar injection burn cause you’re escaping my orbit at a speed of approximately 24,500 to 25,000 mph

Haha bless you. One day maybe!

Was haunted by Columbia, I’ll never forget the newspaper front pages with a photo of a charred helmet in a Texan field. But…I also have thought of this at random points in the last twenty years and it is silly and strange and poignant all at once

I’m afraid humans going into space will always be astonishing to me and I feel grateful to be alive and emotionally invested in this era before the inevitable McDonalds on the Moon stage

Ah thanks I’m really glad to hear it!

Adaptations On being done with fish

Right. I'm back.

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They’re not but they don’t go out much anymore. Perhaps adopting an older cat? Or a cat with FIV who is otherwise healthy and will live a good life but cannot be allowed outside.

Not much has changed since last year. Except that...I'm bringing my Patelograms newsletter back. First post this weekend. Will be nice to talk at you all but in a longer format.

Yeah it oddly just about doesn’t derail everything because the imminent death is the bigger fact hanging over that moment. It was pointed out to me that that timeline makes that jump in time and the other one doesn’t and it’s hard not to think that it’s mostly to get her age bumped up which…yeah

A wonderful compliment! And yes I also hadn’t expected the feeling. I think reading the famous speeches out of context makes you forget that for eg the we are shedders speech is an attempt to comfort a girl in the midsts of an existential panic rather than just a bit of clever musing

Such a deft production too with an elegant, evocative final image. We love to see it

Devastating to learn that famously very good play Arcadia is, in fact, very good

It begins

BSL on stage: 'It gives me the ability to express so many more things' From signing Shakespeare to rapping in a musical: how sign language can light up our stages

We asked d/Deaf actors and BSL interpreters to tell us all about how they use sign language on stage.

What’s it like, translating written English to BSL? Or trying to sign for multiple characters at once? Or interpreting the dense poetry of Shakespeare, or how a song is being sung in a musical?

"I'm flying!"

Nope it’s that one!

The dog fielded at deep fine leg

The Spirit of Cricket isn’t found on the field - it’s found on a random square outside a pub after a game finishes early where disappointed fans - strangers all - join together to bowl a few overs at a lad clutching a thermos as a bat

And if you’ve not seen the film you don’t naturally assume someone is singing the words “Thunder Dome” even if I’m unsure about what I actually heard

Ian I don’t know why. I think because I’ve never really seen the film?!

Oh me too. To not do it is cowardice to my mind

I don’t even know! Mad

I know! Just a banging song played in the back of my dad’s car until JUST NOW

Because I’ve misheard the lyrics since childhood I’ve only now realised that Tina Turner’s “We Don’t Need Another Hero” is about escaping the Thunderdome from Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome

Playwrights! Screenwriters! Friends of playwrights and screenwriters! If you're in London on the 24th July PLEASE join us for a #SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial at Soho Theatre Walthamstow. Pls share.

the Fantastic Four cast get asked about their own personal fantastic four, which leads to some canned niceties from pascal, kirby and quinn, and an insanely he knows ball answer from ebon.