Phil Read @pdread68
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I know there's the big politics & marches going off all over the Country but if you dont do the grass roots & local its hollow. We have taken our play Sixteen around Ashfield this week & it's been brilliant. We take it home to Sutton-in-Ashfield today.
#SiXteen play our first review - we'll take those stars 🌟 .@MrsJayneW eastmidlandstheatre.com/2025/09/10/rev…
📣Extra performance of sixTeen by @redrumlisa and me featuring 3 awesome Notts working class actors! Last chance to grab a ticket @JohnGodberCentr in Hucknall, Friday 12 September at 4.30pm📣
📣Extra performance of sixTeen by @redrumlisa and me featuring 3 awesome Notts working class actors! Last chance to grab a ticket @JohnGodberCentr in Hucknall, Friday 12 September at 4.30pm📣
In a guest post, academic and Battle of Ideas speaker @redrumlisa reflects on how she accidentally became a playwright, drawing on her youthful experiences and her community during the miners' strike in Nottinghamshire. (Link below)
Give .@MrsJayneW a follow she's a working class woman in the arts & you know how hard that is - we rise together duckies 🐤
We were lucky enough to see the preview of this play and it was absolutely brilliant - mesmerizing to see the miners strike through the eyes of the young women who lived it. Go and see it, we will go again. It was that good
We were lucky enough to see the preview of this play and it was absolutely brilliant - mesmerizing to see the miners strike through the eyes of the young women who lived it. Go and see it, we will go again. It was that good
Queen Elizabeth the second visited Russia this week, becoming the first English monarch to set foot in the Soviet Union. The visit, which will last for two weeks, is expected to have absolutely no effect on anything whatsoever.
Nice write up by the BBC about our play SixTeen .@MrsJayneW bbc.com/news/articles/…
What is it about posh girls pushing for illegal immigration? Professional activist Zoe Gardner is the latest ubiquitous talking head to dismiss working-class concerns about the migrant hotels. The bourgeois left just doesn’t get it, says Lisa McKenzie buff.ly/cTzeNPt
Glorious #nowplaying #12inch80s Wah! aka @petewylie - The Story of the Blues [Parts One & Two] youtu.be/TvNHXZhyxFs?si…
Author copies of the ‘Made in Manchester’ paperback have arrived. Due out August 28th, with a fantastic new cover illustration. Available for preorder.
I'm on .@BBCRadioLondon at 3pm taking part in a debate about the deep divisions in the UK & the recent riots & protests. Hopefully it will be nuanced & we can start an honest discussion without the tage baiting.
I don’t use Twitter much these days but if you’re a fan of #Brassic or #FarmerJim then here’s an IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT about the New Official Farmer Jim Brassic Fan Group on Facebook. Link below facebook.com/groups/farmerj… come on over and have a nobble.
Talking about Plays & working class women me & .@MrsJayneW have written a bloody cracker 3 girls on a council estate in Sutton-in-Ashfield in 1984 in Thatchers Britain but with echoes of Starmerism newperspectives.co.uk/sixteen-by-lis…
New play written by our .@redrumlisa and .@MrsJayneW Sixteen - 3 girls growing up in 1984 the backdrop the MIners Strike in Ashfield Nottinghamshire newperspectives.co.uk/blog/open-pitc…
3 girls growing up on a council estate in Sutton-in-Ashfield its 1984 the girls are leaving school with the backdrop of political upheaval. Written by the daughters of Notts Striking Miners newperspectives.co.uk/sixteen-by-lis…
Today has been one of those days where I haven’t sold anything in my online shop. Have a look at my shop and please retweet to spread the word. Thanks. gailmyerscough.co.uk
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