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when you’re a kid and you’re feeling weird and detached and you fall asleep in the late afternoon with school clothes still on and you wake up and its dark and dinner is almost done and time feels like a thick jelly 

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The Grinning Man - Trafalgar Studios

The Grinning Man – Trafalgar Studios

Yesterday I went to see The Grinning Man at Trafalgar Studios, which has transferred to London from the Bristol Old Vic. The Grinning Man is a new macabre musical, based on Victor Hugo’s The Man Who Laughs. I don’t know quite where to begin with this. From the beginning I was dubious, however, the general aesthetic of the musical drew me in. The aesthetic, having this dark, circus, freak show…

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London Student Drama Festival- The Woman's March.

London Student Drama Festival- The Woman’s March.

I was lucky enough to see The Woman’s March at the Pleasance theatre as part of the LSDF semi-finals. The Woman’s march, written and directed by Carys Hughes, is a series of monologues that depict different voices found at the Woman’s March in London. The show for me was very real and genuine. The characters were beautifully formed, and people I would expect to meet on the street, or in the…

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John - National Theatre

I can tell you just about everything to do with this play, apart from what it was about or what happened. A quirky, somewhat eerie, production enabled by Annie Baker’s beautiful, but long script.

Last night I went to see John by Annie Baker in the Dorfman Theatre. A space in the National, that I barely knew existed, let alone ever visited before. Annie Baker is a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, notably for her play The Flick. I can tell you just about everything to do with this play, apart from what it was about or what happened. John follows a dysfunctional couple and their stay at an…

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Julius Caesar - Bridge Theatre

Julius Caesar – Bridge Theatre

I had the absolute pleasure of attending the press night of Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre amongst the powerful and elite members of the theatrical community. This new adaptation of Shakespeare’s play starring Ben Wishaw, Michelle Fairley, David Morrissey, and David Calder, was more relevant than ever with our current political climate. That is near impossible to avoid at the moment,…

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Brothers Size - Young Vic.

Brothers Size – Young Vic.

My first thought as I sit down to write this review, is that I wrote a ton of shit. My notebook is a mess. The one that draws my eye the most is “This is my bag”. I wrote that about halfway through the performance, judging by the scrawling on the paper. The conventional narrative, fused with physical theatre, music and performance art is the theatre I want to see the most. The moments that I…

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Hamilton Review.

*Warning: This is a long one. Apologies in advance*  I finally got to see Hamilton on Friday night at the Victoria Palace Theatre. I have refrained from writing anything on the show as of yet, if you know me at all, or ever read this blog before; I can barely go a week without mentioning Hamilton or Lin Manuel Miranda. It was very special for me to see the show, and I was somewhat overwhelmed…

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SpongeBob Squarepants Review.

‘SpongeBob Squarepants has reached Broadway… What a new low…. ‘ is what you might be saying right now, and rightly so. I was thinking it when I first heard. However, and despite my reservations, it was a surprisingly relevant and good piece of theatre, which worked because it wasn’t trying to have artistic integrity. As you can imagine, the plot lacks imagination and substance, however an…

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Top Shows of 2017.

Top shows of 2017. Happy New Year! What better way to reflect on the past year than in theatre, so with much further ado, here are my top shows that I saw in 2017. I usually do them in order, however I saw so many shows this year, that the best I could do was rattle it down to my equally top five. Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theatre I saw this a couple of weeks ago, just before I left New…

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I made this 80s tribute to the bravest mom I’ve ever known

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Patrick was a fake ass friend to spongebob. He was a bitch

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Once on this Island

Yesterday I went to see Once in this Island at the Circle in the square Theatre. Once on this Island is a broadway revival,   that brings culture, life and passion to the New York stage. It explores the importance of storytelling, telling the audience, and a little girl, who was scared, the story of an island where the rich and poor are divided, and how the Gods remove the divide through the…

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reblog if ur bi, love bisexuals, or support rosa diaz

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When have you EVER seen a relationship between a man and a woman in a sitcom go from the cliche “guy loves girl girl doesn’t love him back” trope to them being close friends and he’s the first person she comes out to?!

b99 is iconic and revolutionary and you can fight me on this

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Not to say that my story is the same as Rosa’s at all. It’s not. But there were things that we wanted and thought would be really important — like the word itself: bisexual. To me, that’s an important word in my coming out. I know that not all people are totally celebratory of that word because it’s from a time where it was like these two genders — that’s all there is. And now there’s a lot more flexibility and fluidity in sexuality, which is why sometimes I gravitate toward the word queer as well. For me, bisexuality includes people that are trans, it can include people who identify in different kind of ways. But for Rosa, there was a point for her where she heard that word somewhere along the line and she saw herself in that word, so for her, it was important for her to identify in that way. I suggested that that word was really important to Rosa and that it also would be really important to the bi community to have that word said aloud on TV. Not just a suggestion that she dates girls now, but a clarity on this character: This is who I am, and I’d like you to know it — and accept it.

Stephanie Beatriz on Rosa coming out (x)

All your faves are queer.

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“Surrender Donald” – Gay activists rally outside Trump Tower in New York, protesting the city’s tax breaks for luxury real estate developers while thousands of people with AIDS sleep in the streets. Oct. 31, 1989

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