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Shows to See: Fringe 2025 — Bechdel Theatre Shows we think look good at Edinburgh Fringe 2025! Don’t forget, if you’re at the festival, you’re welcome to join our Dykes To Watch Shows With WhatsApp group, for finding friendly folks to watch...

ICYMI: 20+ shows to see at #EdFringe this year 👇

www.bechdeltheatre.com/blog/shows-t...

17.08.2025 09:10 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Tonight 7-8pm

We’re opening our zoom room to complete some digital actions challenging the EHRC guidance, writing to MPs, making donations to trans orgs, etc

Not a facilitated session but an open call for those in solidarity w trans people impacted Ruling & EHRC update

DM or email for the link

28.04.2025 17:04 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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D&D20 is tomorrow!

There's still time to get your last minute tickets, or there will be a limited amount available to purchase on the door.

Come along, share your passions, frustrations, joy, sorrow and everything in between

Tickets and more info: buff.ly/oTK36kC

11.04.2025 16:04 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Still open!

The Big Freelancer Survey has been extended to Monday 21st April so we can hear from even more freelancers.

We’re close to matching last year’s numbers—let’s get there together.

📝 👉 linktr.ee/BigFreelance...
#BigFreelancerSurvey #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

05.04.2025 08:40 👍 1 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

I wrote my first piece for @artsprofessional.co.uk
As Lead Producer at @producergathering.bsky.social (supported by @marlboroughprods.bsky.social & Artsadmin) I’m co-creating a self-care guide for producers with The Uncultured. the-uncultured.com

www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...

04.04.2025 17:41 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Well that's one way to be diagnosed 😂

The beautiful @alexfranklinhallo.bsky.social is gracing us at Dean Street next week - wooo x

Tix here: buff.ly/s4W8b1U

14th – 15th April

03.04.2025 08:02 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Lynette Linton to direct Bridgerton star in final Bush Theatre season Lynette Linton has announced her final Bush Theatre season, with the venue leader to direct Bridgerton star Golda Rosheuvel and Black Panther actor Letitia Wright

ICYMI: Lynette Linton has announced her final Bush Theatre season, with the venue leader to direct Bridgerton star Golda Rosheuvel in a world premiere production 👇

23.03.2025 08:02 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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All The Happy Things reveals cast for London and Edinburgh Festival Fringe The new play will be seen in two major cities!

Introducing the cast of All The Happy Things 🎂

Joining writer Naomi Denny, are the incredible LJ Johnson and Dejon Mullings

Bring on opening night next month

16.03.2025 11:02 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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📢 Freelancers—this is THE survey that counts.

✔️ 5 years of data—not just a snapshot
✔️ Shaped funding & policy decisions
✔️ BY freelancers FOR freelancers

Be part of the change. Fill it in now:
📝 👉 linktr.ee/BigFreelance...

#BigFreelancerSurvey #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

15.03.2025 09:30 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Safety of women travelling home from theatre work is an ‘afterthought’ – Equity The safety of women and marginalised genders in the performing arts when travelling home from work late at night has been treated as an ‘afterthought’, according to Equity

The safety of women and marginalised genders in the performing arts when travelling home from work late at night has been treated as an "afterthought", according to Equity 👇

13.03.2025 11:39 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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✨ANNOUNCING TARA THEATRE’S 2025 SEASON ✨

“Being South Asian isn’t a homogenous experience. The theme running through my inaugural season at Tara Theatre is that there is more than just one South Asian story.”

Discover our brand new 2025 Season:
taratheatre.com/series/2025-...

14.03.2025 10:00 👍 14 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1

Limited tickets left for this next week 👀

04.03.2025 18:40 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Dykes To Make Shows With (Queer Creative Speed Networking) | Bechdel Theatre WLTM: Dykes to make shows with. A lightly-facilitated ‘speed-dating’ style session to meet other queer & feminist creatives.

D¥KES TO MAKE SHOWS WITH
🗓Thu 13 Mar
📍The Glitch SE1

A speed-dating style event designed to take the hierarchical awkwardness out of arts “networking” to help you meet co-conspirators, future collaborators & make creative pals.

Pay What You Can 🎟

Full deets: www.bechdeltheatre.com/event-detail...

01.03.2025 10:00 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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We are thrilled to announce the team behind Argos Archives, presented by Futures Theatre, by Sabrina Mahfouz with Thrive Creatives.

Argos Archives: A nostalgic journey of neurodivergent self-discovery and landing your dream job - at Argos!
Tickets 🎟️available now!

@omnibustheatre.bsky.social

06.02.2025 12:25 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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MY MOTHER'S FUNERAL review by thespyinthestalls review of MY MOTHER'S FUNERAL | The Yard Theatre | thespyinthestalls | 5 stars | Abigail’s mother has died and she can’t afford the

🎭 REVIEW 🎭 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 🎭

MY MOTHER'S FUNERAL at The Yard Theatre

"fresh and funny and angry"

📖 thespyinthestalls.com/2025/01/my-m...

#RecommendedShow

📸 Nicola Young

@theyardtheatre.bsky.social @martinshippen.bsky.social

31.01.2025 11:12 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A white woman with vivid orange bobbed hair, in a white corset with crimson ribbons, strides towards the camera away from a brick stately home. Title says Mary and the Hyenas.

A white woman with vivid orange bobbed hair, in a white corset with crimson ribbons, strides towards the camera away from a brick stately home. Title says Mary and the Hyenas.

Baby, He Loves You writer Maureen Lennon has a new show starting tomorrow at Hull Truck, about feminist icon Mary Wollstonecraft, who was raised in Beverley. Very excited to see it! www.hulltruck.co.uk/whats-on/dra...

06.02.2025 09:56 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Imagination Station with Jade Ward and Sarah Farrow-Jones. 26th Feb. Jade is smiling broadly, looking out of shot. She has dark blonde and brown hair and is wearing a black top. Sarah is signing to a person dressed in red with their back to the camera. Sarah has a joyful expression on her face and is wearing an orange and green headband, a bright red dress and a yellow lanyard.

Imagination Station with Jade Ward and Sarah Farrow-Jones. 26th Feb. Jade is smiling broadly, looking out of shot. She has dark blonde and brown hair and is wearing a black top. Sarah is signing to a person dressed in red with their back to the camera. Sarah has a joyful expression on her face and is wearing an orange and green headband, a bright red dress and a yellow lanyard.

Join @cripticarts.bsky.social and Far Flung for a workshop that will use thought-provoking games and creative imagination to explore the benefits of letting loose and having fun.

When - 26 Feb
Where - Online
Cost - Free

https://disabilityarts.online/events/imagination-station-with-far-flung-cic/

05.02.2025 13:40 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
What do we do about migrant underrepresentation in the performing arts? A Devoted and Disgruntled Satellite Open Space Event

What do we do about migrant underrepresentation in the performing arts?

Join PROJEKT EUROPA and Improbable for a satellite D&D on Sunday 23rd February for migrant performance and theatre makers.

Tickets are free but please register your attendance here: www.eventbrite.com/e/what-do-we...

05.02.2025 14:49 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

The news today is deeply depressing. If you want to turn it off I recommend listening to my radio play at 2:15pm. It’ll be on BBC Sounds after that. X Love and solidarity to all.

05.02.2025 09:20 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
bechdeltheatre | Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | Linktree Follow us, contact us, learn more about what we do!

Join our board 📣

We're creating an advisory board. Could you be part of it?

Seeking specialists in:
- Fundraising for arts/community orgs
- Social enterprise business strategy
- Safeguarding & wellbeing
- Legal for CICs
- PR & media

Full details: linktr.ee/bechdeltheatre

30.01.2025 10:28 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Asian Express Newspaper - Santi & Naz: a profound exploration of friendship in the face of adversity “Santi and Naz” is a heart-wrenching portrayal of love and friendship set against the backdrop of the Partition of India, one of history’s most tumultuous periods. The story revolves around two best f...

Absolutely lush review of #SantiAndNaz in
Asian Express UK!

'a deeply moving production that captures both the personal and political, reminding us of the human cost of division and the resilience of love.'

Thank you!

asianexpress.co.uk/2025/01/sant...

24.01.2025 15:40 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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LOST GIRL - The Lowry - PRODUCER CALL OUT LOST GIRL - The Lowry - PRODUCER CALL OUT From award-winning playwright Amy Lever, Lost Girl is a solo play exploring girlhood and identity crisis through the lens of Jewish-Arab heritage. Performe...

Amy Lever’s play ‘Lost Girl’ has been programmed at The Lowry in September - with me directing - and we’re on the lookout for a producer.

Deadline is this Friday

Application pack here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

28.01.2025 12:10 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
On a yellow background, the graphic reads: Submissions now open until 5pm on Tuesday 22nd April.

On a yellow background, the graphic reads: Submissions now open until 5pm on Tuesday 22nd April.

The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2025 is now open for submissions until Tuesday 22nd April!🎉 @painesplough.bsky.social @concordukshows.bsky.social @ekpshows.bsky.social

The First Prize is £20,000: our biggest prize fund yet.👀

Enter via our website: womensprizeforplaywriting.co.uk/how-to-enter/

13.01.2025 08:59 👍 38 🔁 42 💬 1 📌 4
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OJ Borg - Mistakes have been made... - BBC Sounds OJ wants to hear about the times you've had to apologise after making a mistake...

Did you catch @laurachorton.bsky.social talking about Lynn Faces on @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social at 12.30am this morning? Don't worry if you missed it, it's on repeat 34mins in here www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Enjoy Laura testing @ojborg.bsky.social on Lynn facts & saying 'bumhole' on live radio.

28.01.2025 10:04 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Hi 👋
Wanna see more theatre & performance by women, trans+ & non-binary people? Wanna find a bunch of friendly queers to go with? We exist to help with that.

Ps.
We had +10k followers before the twxtter fash takeover & would love to keep going on here. Pls do help spread the word!

27.01.2025 18:23 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0