Stephen Longstaffe

@RobertsonAlizon I love that line!

@SteveLongstaffe What cares colon for Lent!

Carnival versus Lent! Despite bidding many farewells to it, there is still far too much of my own flesh. I am a man more thinned against than thinning.

@CumbriaEnglish You can watch her litfest session on Helm this evening here, though you have to buy a ticket. litfest.org/events/sarah-h…

Interesting recent Guardian article by Sarah Hall for our MA students past and present: Blue sky thinking: why we need positive climate novels theguardian.com/books/2025/aug…

@RobertsonAlizon Cheers A!

@SteveLongstaffe Hope it goes well!

I'm finally performing this in Liverpool on Saturday. I can't wait! Part of #Liverpoolfringe2025.

A week past Michaelmas, this is also the Michaelmas moon of 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight': 'Thus runs the year in yesterdays many, And winter wends again, as the world asks, in truth, Until Michaelmas moon Was come with winter's wage...' x.com/ClerkofOxford/…

@lizziecanttweet @ShakesInstitute @shakescenery @DewiHughes Congratulations Lizzie!

Today I passed my PhD viva & am now officially a Doctor - but can only respond to #cuebased #Shakespeare emergencies! Thanks @ShakesInstitute @shakescenery @DewiHughes

Auditions for this year's production of scenes from the N-Town cycle are on Monday 18 and Thursday 28 August. Performances 4-6 December, Chalk Farm NW3. We're looking for actors, singers & backstage helpers. Full details on website theplayersofstpeter.org.uk/auditions

We're kicking off Crossed Wires festival with a piece of audio history! Jarvis Cocker has recorded a special version of the Shipping Forecast to mark its centenary. It'll be played in full at a special Ships live show at the @crossedwires_/@BBCSounds Fringe today. Thanks Jarv!

At Hampton Court yesterday, with Henry VIII's fool Will Summers.

My best Shakespeare on the Spot so far, at the King's Arms Salford for the Greater Manchester Improvisation Festival on Saturday. In the misery pic I'm soliloquising about Julius Caesar's assassination - the audience suggestion was that a piano dropped on his head.

So excited! Ten 'new' funny early modern plays. I got the weekend pass to see the lot. Proper jokes, generous comic humanity; the same characters, different situations. I'm cast as a grumpy farting old git. Bit of a failure of the imagination there, I feel, but hey. Come!

RIP. WSI really gripped my imagination as a theatre student, mostly via the Engineers of the Imagination handbook and the few videos I could find mid-80s. A pioneer vision blending visual arts, humour, ritual, performance and community. theguardian.com/stage/2025/apr…

🃏 The Fool – A Card of New Beginnings Happy April Fool's Day! Today, we're sharing The Fool card from the Tarot de Marseille Gassmann deck (c.1865). Symbolising adventure, risk, and new beginnings, The Fool invites us to embrace the unknown and take a leap of faith. #Tarot

@jackiewatson05 Hi Jackie. I did write on KJ and anti-Catholicism 30 years ago, though I'm sure that's been superseded. But given the way claims about the play often involve claims about TR, you might find some useful context in my piece on the earlier play. academia.edu/11088498/Page_…

If anyone from early modern Twitter is still around on here, I’m working currently on Shakespeare’s King John and would love to hear about books and articles people would recommend. Any aspect of the play. Please tell me about yours if you’ve written on it!

I love these 16th century grotesques!

This raised a chuckle - Plato's theory of Forms, applied to the LFC-PSG game: 'a smash-and-grab of such Platonic perfection that it belongs among the great thinker's higher realm of Ideals'.

@MikeHaskins11 Thanks Mike! Hope all's well with youse.

Fantastic! Well done, Steve!

It's been around 45 years since I wrote and performed comedy sketches with @MikeHaskins11. Last night 'Lutwidge', in which Lewis Carroll (Steve Wallis, here) attempts to explain Jabberwocky to his publisher, won an award at Liverpool's Weird and Wonderful festival!