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juststrasz.bsky.social
York-based theatre maker/bricoleur/academic. Mystery Plays, medieval theatre, community performance. Makes a mess.
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Arresting Quaker women for non-violent protest and breaking into a meeting house to do so. The first time anyone has been arrested in a meeting house in living memory. Despicable behaviour from a Labour government’s Home Office/the Met Police.

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

Still slightly astonished that there doesn't seem to have been a Trump-tinged production of Volpone. A gold-obsessed con-artist and predator, surrounded by flatterers and cronies, who find themselves destroyed and debased. Is it that we want to love the conman?

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

So I do a little icebreaker with my students. Last week was "favourite film released before you were born", and that was a mistaaaake.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

New project launches today looking at class, the arts and the leadership of some of our biggest institutions. Our analysis shows: Nearly a third (30%) of artistic directors and other creative leaders were educated privately compared with a UK average of 7%. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

This is AI solving problems. With art, there is no problem to solve. The art is in the doing.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 52 days ago • 6 comments

THANK YOU!!! to everyone who has donated to the major Folklore Library and Archive charity fundraiser so far. We have managed to raise enough money to cover 2 months of staff time for the next year so far, which will help to keep the charity working. Can you help? www.gofundme.com/f/keep-the-f...

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Night out at Rise for songs and a trip to the Underworld courtesy of @adderstone.bsky.social !

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

There's no word to describe this other than "evil" www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/w...

submitted 63 days ago • 23 comments

Revealing that I've been listening to 6Music today, I hadn't heard Mum Does The Washing. I don't want to spoil any of the one liners. You will be all over this. joshuaidehen.bandcamp.com/track/mum-do...

submitted 65 days ago • 9 comments