Invulnerable Nothings

Work on Jane Lumley’s translation of the Euripides (1553) has been central to our company work the last few years. Cannot wait to share this workshop production at Coffey Street Studios in Brooklyn. FREE with RSVP.

My commitment to making theatre accessible to the next generation of theatermakers continues at WILLIAMSTOWN this summer. If ur a student u should have email from me…if not email me for $71 weekend passes and MORE! Share to spread the message! And if ur not a student more soon

I wrote about "the rooms of fiction" with cameos from Bachelard, Woolf, Salter, Bonnard, Kafka, Hamsun, Krasznahorkai, Murnane. (link below)

MRS. DALLOWAY was published 100 years ago today. The following year, E.M. Forster reviewed it in The Yale Review. Now online for the first time: his essay on Woolf’s novels to date—including what he called her “exquisite and superbly constructed” masterpiece. yalereview.org/article/forste…

'The mind is an activity and will decay into dark inertia if not sustained by the sustenance of reading.' Harold Bloom

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book." Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Perfection is less interesting.” —Anne Carson buff.ly/O7UWHR8

Continuing my mission to get babies into buildings - introducing FIRST WORDS: a group for writers and babies, at @royalcourt. For anyone who considers themselves a writer + babies under one. April 30th. 2-4pm. Soft play. Coffee. No writing, just support. royalcourttheatre.com/first-words-fo…

‘I want to work to rebuild what the contract between a new-writing theatre and the writing community looks like’ @mrdavebyrne talks about how his time @newdiorama has helped him tackle challenges head-on and what he hopes to achieve @royalcourt 👇 #Echobox=1743673481" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thestage.co.uk/big-interviews…

'Tyrants always fear art because tyrants want to mystify while art tends to clarify. The good artist is a vehicle of truth...However it may be admitted that in this age art seems to have rather more enemies than usual...tyrants of course are still here and we know what they do.'

Seamus Heaney in the fields of Co. Derry. He described his childhood and youth there as "an intimate, physical, creaturely existence…in suspension between the archaic and the modern."

Watching this – modernised Chekhov, essentially – and it fucking rules, it is unbelievably good, everyone is fucking acting as good as you can fucking act to writing that it, of course, as fucking good as fucking writing fucking gets. God I love Wallace Shawn.

Leo Tolstoy with his horse at Yasnaya Polyana.

NEW ARTICLE: Reed McConnell’s “Academic Discipline,” which investigates the tradition of Karzer, German university prisons where students (such as Karl Marx) were sent for a range of offenses: dueling, making a nocturnal racket, and leading vagabond-like lifestyles. @_____reed

Directed by the Danish auteur Benjamin Christensen of 'Häxan' fame and starring Norma Shearer! ‘The Devil’s Circus’ was his first American film for the company MGM. The film is newly digitized by The Danish Film Institute and streaming on our site: stumfilm.dk/en/stumfilm/st…

From next month the BBC are axing all audio drama from @BBCRadio3 As part of our campaign with @EquityUK and @Soc_of_Authors we are now urging our members + supporters to write to Culture Secretary @lisanandy   Find out more 🔽 writersguild.org.uk/save-audio-dra… #SADatTheBBC

Never tell me the classics aren’t relevant to everyone. from James Baldwin

As David Lan says in the obituary, Fugard's plays are not about apartheid being wrong. They're about how living in an evil system fucks EVERYONE up. No matter your politics, wealth, poverty, good intentions. Everyone.

Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov, 1880

Illustrated manuscript (the first ‘little book’) by Charlotte Brontë, c.1828 (when she was aged 11-12), the author who later went on to write 'Jayne Eyre' #womensart

“As you set out on the way to Ithaca hope that the road is a long one, filled with adventures, filled with discoveries.” – Manuscript of Cavafy’s poem “Ithaca”, 1911. Cavafy Archive. #poetry #cavafy #Greece