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Writes scripts, feeds cats, tries to not fuck up that thing you love | Murdered By My Father, Doctor Who, One Day | Associate Playwright, Royal Court Theatre
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Niche politics/theatre fact for you… Keir Starmer met Steve Reed in the Royal Court bar in July 2019 to talk leadership bid. Jack Thorne’s “The End of History” was playing then. Its blurb? “When you’ve named each of your offspring after your socialist heroes, you’ve given them a lot to live up to”

Bit on the nose

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Thesis Antithesis Synthesis

(I feel very old)

I guess getting rid of all the posh folks and splitting the money is praxis? #TheTraitors

Why did Frankie not just say “why would I have revealed myself as a traitor to Charlotte?” Did I miss something? #TheTraitors

Do they…really think there were like 4 traitors left last week? This is nuts #TheTraitors

Alexander worked for Bain Capital so I doubt he needs the money. If he gets punted out, it’s all good. A long side-career on Cameo awaits #TheTraitors

Ahhh the lovely moment where tension is gone and now it’s innocent people going for each other like rats in a bag #TheTraitors

#TheTraitors

For anyone who remembers me posting photos of my lovely Ba, here she is as a young woman with my grandfather. I feel uncertain about what it means to be able to have your entire life documented from birth for death but I’m always grateful for the photos at least

Conference

Me, writing the script in December: “Be nice to give this character a happy ending where she becomes a playwright!” Me, re-writing the script in January: “…is that a happy ending?”

What’s an aggressively normie phrase/piece of life advice (of the “live, laugh, love” variety) that you’ve actually found profoundly meaningful?