Absolute beauts. It’s searching, emotionally raw work (well when we’re not giving it full CILLA too 🙈🙈🙈) and it’s a privilege to be calling on such extraordinary, humane and intelligent talents for the ride ❤️❤️❤️

Today I staged:

A Midwest meets West Scotland power ballad number involving an alarming amount of line dancing… &Margaret Thatcher.

A person watching a memory of their father sending them back to a violent home.

Theatre really makes a boy need a drink National Theatre of Scotland #MaggieAndMe

📢 Calling all Scottish LGBTQ+ people & allies!

It's your last chance to respond to the consultation to #BanConversionTherapy , which closes tomorrow. Together we can end this abuse once and for all ⏬

stonewall.org.uk/our-work/campa…

Breaking News: The Glaswegian practice of putting cones on statues is now legally protected under the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intagible Cultural Heritage. Read about the ancient origins of this tradition in our latest plaque.

#glasgow #humour #glaikit

Um, I can miss a few days of tech, no? NO?! 🙈🙈🙈

And what a day it was! ❤️❤️❤️

'How do we resist? Aleksandra Bystroń-Kołodziejczyk, the girl who glows in the film, as she did in life, chose to. I dedicate this to her memory and her resistance. Thank you.'

Truly, it was a bonkers casting process, meeting SO much talent (thank you Orla O'Connor Casting!), but I’m certain we have the purest gems in town. A joy to have Sam Angell back aboard the Das Magic Train with these incredible first-time passengers. Fasten your seatbelts, gang…😉😜

21 years ago today, the IDF killed my friend Rachel Corrie as she defended a Palestinian home in Rafah, Gaza.

As a deadly assault on Rafah looms, I wrote about her legacy for Jacobin.

jacobin.com/2024/03/rachel…

Evelyn is an NHS consultant. She called my LBC show today to powerfully describe the pain shared by many black British women following Tory donor Frank Hester’s appalling racist comments about Diane Abbott and the weak political reaction that’s followed.

Please listen

Since Miriam Margolyes Trending, I just want to share a little clip of how easy it is to listen, & to learn about what you don't understand, without letting ignorance consume you.

Yes, this IS Madonna & Kylie Minogue duetting I Will Survive barely an hour ago in LA.

Happy International Women’s Day 💪🏾❤️

Edward Bond: a phenomenal talent who upturned theatre with his explosive plays theguardian.com/stage/2024/mar…

Absolutely phenomenal news for the small but mighty Theatres Trust team and for every city, town & village across the UK that continues to have a space for live performance because of the Trust’s care. It’s unshowy work they do, but so vital for truly national cultural provision.

Belatedly, delightful to spend a Sunday afternoon with the fine Scottish Opera orchestra! And to reconnect with gentleman & superstar Alok Kumar who was in fine voice & on stylish form. So much love for the joy #SukanyaOpera continues to bring to the world ❤️ London Philharmonic Orchestra

Expendable by Emteaz Hussain
Director Esther Richardson

Between the 1990s and 2010s hundreds of young girls were sexually exploited in northern towns by gangs of predatory men.

Two sisters grapple with the impact on their community as the men around them are embroiled in…

I mean this is QUITE a stonking season befitting the country’s new writing theatre. Thrilled to see the brilliant Emteaz Hussein and Esther Richardson deservedly take their place in the line-up. Congrats to David Byrne and team.

At least ten children have reportedly died because of dehydration and malnutrition in Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Northern Gaza Strip in recent days.

Statement by @adelekhodr, on malnourished babies in Gaza slowly perishing under the world’s gaze.