As she tours her Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning show tours the UK, we catch up with @samnicoresti.bsky.social
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There was so much to this and I urge anyone to try and go tomorrow, and if not tomorrow, go to it’s inevitable transfer.
It's an absolutely masterful piece of writing from Olga Braga.
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... can impact people through just having so much change before war. It interrogated the war and aspects of Eastern Europe and Russian identity with a tone that did not condescend the audience with its complexity... @theatre503.bsky.social
I just saw Donbas at @theatre503.bsky.social. Wow. I was blown away by this piece. Absolutely overwhelming in a way. I’ve never seen anyone put that level of complexity about intergenerational identity, about linguistic alienation, about forced nationalism and the damages and trauma...
You know what I miss about being in the art world: actually making art. I couldn't feel more distant from actually making art than right now despite working on arts projects every day.
Weird.
I am getting really tired of American companies ruining good things. Just stop selling to me and do the thing and leave the good beer alone:
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There is nothing better than Fargo. Magical realism, real life slow hyper violence, astonishing cinematography, perfect music.
I could watch it on a loop.
The fact you have seen Evanescence live is just astonishing. I think I'd chop an arm off to see the rock version of this live:
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Oh we've got a banging playlist on for days now - Evanescence is making a comeback, ngl!!
I don't know how I know or follow you, but I am sure am grateful that you reminded me of this banger.
Bench CJ Stroud. How many chances does he need?
Dear America: Deal with your president immediately. This behaviour cannot stand.
"Brexit is bad", who knew?
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I stand with all of my Jewish friends today and forever. This has been a horrible day. Sending love to all of you who are affected.
Today, obviously is despicable in Sydney. But Primal Scream's imagery at the concert is awful too. Enough of the antisemitism.
Edinburgh Fringe With Spice have posted our 2025 update - a highly visual book, digital platform and ticketing giveaways for global majority audiences. Thank you all for your support including Underbelly @lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social @thestage.co.uk. <3 <3 x
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I'm going to say something controversial:
AI is great for those of us with severe ADHD. It means we're no longer editing from a blank page. That is an amazing gift.
Oh wow - David Lammy really passed it. Imagine throwing away a process that's been in place for 800 years because people can't create a proper working process....?
Stranger Things is just brilliant. It's so good to see a new blockbuster created in a large studio with budget and actually be a successful new story.
Love to see it, want to see more of it
From an accessibility POV: Warner Brothers Studios has nailed it at Harry Potter World. Incredible. They've incorporated accessibility into absolutely everything - beautiful to see. Intro videos giving a visual tour ahead of time, subtitles, clear instructions, quiet rooms, all sorts. Well done.
Petition to ban flashback episodes in Netflix series; they are just terrible substitutions for exposition.
This has been a right for literally a thousand years - stop framing underinvestment as somehow a thing we have to lose rights about. What. The. Fudge.:
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Hearing a major CEO telling the business editor of the Today Programme that they have projected they will cut 1/3 of their office workforce on the radio is toe curlingly scary. #r4today
I cannot be the only person dismayed when you spend 2-3 hours on a draft to then send it to someone and have it returned with a "I've had a re-jig" to only put it through ChatGPT and make it distinctly worse? Unbelievably depressing time.
Some pieces of TV are just pure THEATRE on-screen; a prime example being Peaky Blinders.
Throughout the show the sets, costume and even the cinematography is just pure pure pure theatre in its heightened naturalism. Now I'm out of London, on a mission to find more TV like this - suggestions please!
It's also so darn refreshing to see multiple stories about geopolitics in theatres.
Theatre ... Bluesky... is there a play about the moment of the downfall of the Berlin Wall? I am obsessed with it and want to find a way of dramatising that exact moment.
Dear Mr Starmer - we live on an island. Our borders aren't going to be made safer by digital IDs, just our personal freedoms made more complicated when we (excuse me whilst I laugh - "non-white" people) will be asked to show our IDs at every conceivable opportunity by the police.
Btw, I love Lens poetry and have been following her for multiple years, but you must be allowed to have a bad review.
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@canongate.co.uk - attacking @thetimes.com for a bad review is just not a good look. There is a remarkable similarity between both endings, and pointing it out is covered under "honest opinion". Goodness me, folks. You're allowed to receive a bad review.
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