@BlueLunaAZ
@dtgreg
@Cleavon_MD
Born in 1957. And I think you’re spot on. This was a critical time for vaccines. They are a benevolence of scientific effort. We’re here because of it. Resistance to vaccines (or masks) is a deficit of memory, history, and sense.
@TerayamaCabaret
Thank you to my friends and colleagues as well as the wonderful audience. I am sad to leave now. But I know that Shingo-San and the fantastic company will continue to deliver our Terayama Cabaret with power and heart. With my love to the theatre of Japan.
@OxfordDiplomat
This thread is spot on. The lethal, arrogant vacuity of
@IsabelOakeshott
et al is the proof of their utter lack of seriousness - as thinkers or journalists. Zero understanding. Such vicious unseriousness and emptiness needs to be taken very seriously.
“A Virtual Sabbath Prayer” created, produced and directed by the remarkable company of our Fiddler On The Roof on Broadway. It ambushed me in the best possible way. Happy New Year friends.
So sad to hear of the passing of my friend Shurei Sit
@_shurei_
today. I met her at a workshop in Tokyo 30 years ago: she arrived all light and wit and passion - speaking exquisite English. Since, she became a force in the modern theatre of Japan. And a guide to me. Love.
The idea that a British PM doesn’t ‘trust’ Parliament is frankly sinister. He may disagree with Parliament. He may be frustrated by Parliament. But not to trust it is a very undemocratic instinct, and certainly unworthy of a PM allegedly committed to ‘sovereignty’.
Whatever the understandable logic of having another go at getting the Brexit legislation through, Parliament doesn't trust the PM, but nor does the PM trust Parliament not to keep trying to find ways to delay if an extension is agreed
@carolecadwalla
Well I am. And I think
@pritipatel
is very likely following Bill Barr’s example on the Mueller report. She believes she can prevail by obfuscation. She’s very foolish and malevolent to think so. But ignorance and cruelty are her signature .
Sam Beckett once said about a favourite rugby football player that he was ‘capable of genius when the light is dying’. I think the same can be said now of the US electorate. And it’s a gift to the world.
@Kasparov63
This is spot on from a master of strategy. The struggle against authoritarianism is going to require a fierce patience and command of detail. (And detail is the Achilles heel of populism.)
@themaxburns
I lived in East Germany in the late 1980s.What the revolution of 1989 taught me is these things happen very suddenly.Trump reminds me of the Honecker red rose desperation that led him to order the ‘Tianamen’ solution in Leipzig and Dresden.He was defeated. Luckily. Trump must go
@seanjonesqc
If
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
thinks what is going on now is ‘candy-floss outrage’ he is utterly out of touch with the UK. This thing runs even deeper than Twitter. Finally.
Just saw Stereophonic
@stereobway
. Magnificent in every way. Extraordinary writing, , direction, and a quite superb cast of actors. About making music. But also life. Beautiful theatre. Is now one of my collectible memories of the stage at its height.
@StevenEdginton
Actually what you’ve proved after your ‘investigation’ is that you have no idea what the civil service or diplomatic corps do. Your explanation is infantile. And abysmally written.
To all professionals in the film, television, entertainment, and arts world, join the challenge to post a photo of you in your job. Just a picture, no description. Copy the text and post a pic.
#SaveTheArtsUK
@LozzaFox
@LozzaFox
I’m going to say this to you in the hope it will help you. You have a narrowing window through which you can escape to a life. If you don’t take it, you will end up aggrieved, bitter and voiceless. Stop this nonsense. Celebrity of your kind has a very short sell-by date
@Nady_animal
It’s important to say that Kusaka is a remarkable musician and actor. She brought her Biwa to an audition and astonished me. Later I gave her character the name ‘Hendrix’. Because she is ancient and modern. Brilliant.
@RobertLindsay
Yes. This is not moral rocket science. And it is the law of the sea: no you do NOT push people back into peril. There’s no parsing that human obligation. It’s present tense humanity. Not the cynical indolence of Priti Patel’s desk.
@rafaelbehr
@NickCohen4
I was lucky to have a conversation once with Paddy Ashdown when he said that Labour always needed to team up with the Tories at PMQs to laugh at LibDem ‘irrelevance’. I think the laughter is dying. Good for Jo Swinson . An actual opposition in the making.
Happy Christmas all. Today I overheard a ten year old explaining to her brother that the green ray at sunset is probably caused by the curvature of the earth capturing the light. I thought: our future is in safe and brilliant hands.
#humanity
.
Yesterday I learned that the extraordinary Mie Kakigahara has died. This great interpreter introduced me to Japan. My first day in Tokyo she wrote down the phrase ‘Otsukaresamadeshita’ and made me say it at days end. I am very sad. But thank you Mie. And Otsukaresamadeshita.
@SKinnock
Your opening sentence suggests this thing has been a struggle that the Labour Party has stood aloof from. That’s the problem. Your party’s first duty was to oppose the xenophobic populism of nationalism. It has spectacularly failed to do so. You did not engage. Shameful.
@ProfKAArmstrong
@mrjamesob
Actually, I very much like the way you start that sentence. And I also very much like the way you finish it. Very thankful for informed interventions like yours.
Stunning. Those beautiful arms. That depth of expression. Our Mum - also a ballerina - was still responding to music in her last unconscious hours. This video knocks me for six. Dance as the luminous shadow in which a heart is glimpsed. So moved. And so full of admiration.
Wishing my many friends and colleagues that I am so lucky to have, a peaceful oasis of calm this holiday. And ready to pool our shared resources of courage and hope and downright mischief to overcome and make things together in the year to come.
@BorisJohnson
Hard to believe this lazy prose could come from someone who held the office of Foreign Secretary.
@BorisJohnson
so inadequate. So delinquent. So fundamentally stupid.
@ValentineCymru
It makes me so mad. Are actors not allowed to act and be a totally different person anymore. Should they just play themselves. Really!!!
And since this deal was clearly done while the UK is still in the EU, I’m not sure I understand the Conservatives point... It rather undermines the theory about leaving doesn’t it???
The car industry you're incompetently driving out of our country is 116 times more important than this deal, and it employs 800,000 people in the UK, not 4,000 in Australia. People are sick of the bullshit.
Putting the Con in
@Conservatives
I confess I’m very tempted to block Trump now. So toxic. But given that Twitter is now his main megaphone over Fox, just the thought of a multitude of blocks/unfollows at the instant of Biden’s swearing in keeps me going. It’d be like a power cut to Trump. Which it is of course.
Sometimes good to step away from the detail of previews to something else entirely. Just read RED BIKE by
@Csvich
and think it’s magnificent. That leap dramatic poetry makes by compressing realism until it reaches the velocity of reality. Beautiful.
@JMPSimor
Such a ridiculous phrase by definition - the point of liberalism is tolerance of other views even when you bitterly disagree. Not since Momentum appeared to describe Labour students as a ‘hotbed of centrism’ (last week) has common sense been so savagely mangled.
Wishing a peaceful, unafraid and hopeful Christmas and New Year to my brilliant collaborators, many critics, followers and dear friends. And thank you for being co-conspirators in the tumult. What a privilege. Onwards.
@lewis_goodall
Well I’d start with wonder that a man so incurious that he’s never bothered to know the history of the century he was born into - or considered the sacrifices made - could have become President of the US.
@Bonn1eGreer
I couldn’t agree more Bonnie. This govt. thinks contrarian is complexity. It is a juvenile tyranny. Meanwhile, a real history (and everyday heroic humanity) drowns in the mythical, slovenly, addiction to celebrity that is our governing class.
@OxfordDiplomat
My clock goes on. I am finished with theirs. It’s the pontoon out of Brigadoon for me at midnight. I’d rather live in the world. And try to make it accessible again for the young. Brexit is a long, sad, sleep. Of immense littleness. I’m done with it. Dawn is elsewhere.
@ElliotElinor
Nor forgive the uniquely offensive loudmouths who would bully us into abandoning the carefully built ship of the EU for a nasty, leaking, rusting nativist boat helmed by third rate minds like
@patel4witham
@MPIainDS
and Cummings. Not now. Not ever.
Very very sad to hear that Ian Holm has died. I had the great luck to work with him on Pinter’s Moonlight. He was just miraculously brilliant. And a wonderful, funny, beautiful man.
@Bonn1eGreer
As a teenager I was irritated by my Dad’s respect for Philip. Later I came to understand that for a wartime generation (the real one not the Mark Francois fiction) he represented duty and continuity. Dad worked for the NHS. Also the creation of his generation. The UK is complex.
Saw
@HarveyFierstein
in his spell-binding Bella Bella.Completely fascinated by it.And the incredible,prescient Bella Abzug. Part of me wishes her fight against wars and for women’s rights were now history. But this remarkable account sings like an aching opera of now. Brilliant.
I fiercely defend peoples right to vote however they choose. I also fiercely defend my right to say that now Johnson, Brexit, and Trump have had their chance, if you voted for them you were wrong. You’ve enabled a poison, and an unforgivable assault on a young generation’s hopes.
I had the privilege of being on a nominees panel with
@RedHourBen
at the DGA. I was very moved and educated by his gentle, forthright insight. You bet he deserved it. As do you for all that you have given us.
This is the depressing truth about Seamus Milne - a privileged theoretical Stalinist who
@jeremycorbyn
doesn’t seem to have the imagination-or historical literacy-to resist. He’s a leech on the back of the Labour Party. An architect of injustice to those he claims to represent.
I’m besotted by CNN’s John King. The knowledge, the focus, and the entire lack of need for punctuation in the sweep of his facts. Gertrude Stein on steroids. Magnificent, sleepless reality.
Absolutely loved My Fair Lady
@LondonColiseum
in Bart Sher’s production. Plus to me one of its marvels is the way that astounding score is conducted by the brilliant
@ValentineCymru
.He doesn’t just conduct music - he conveys it. And it’s specific, passionate and ravishing.
@sazmeister88
I think it’s time we acknowledged that the ‘progressives’ who won’t vote for Biden or Starmer have no understanding of struggle towards a goal. They want it all now or not at all. That’s not Socialism. It’s a tantrum. And utterly regressive.
For a vivid account of how mishap and beauty clatter together, I can’t think of a better - or wiser - account of a life in the theatre than I WAS BETTER LAST NIGHT by
@HarveyFierstein
. The real deal. Modernism knocking it all down. And showing the way. Joyous.
@NadineDorries
No, it’s a wholly legitimate response to you and your party’s appeal to xenophobia, nativism, and reflexive mendacity about the EU. If you wanted a debate - which I agree is far preferable - telling the truth would have been a good place to start. But you didn’t. So here we are.
Bitterly sad news of the great Christopher Plummer. One of the most enduring privileges of my life was to have the great luck to work with him and witness his brilliance on a film set. Ferociously funny, smart, gracious. I learned so much from him. He was a marvel really.
Christopher Plummer won an Oscar for “Beginners” in 2011, after a six-decade career that included Tonys, Emmys and an indelible performance as Captain Von Trapp in “The Sound of Music.”
“What the hell is retirement?” he said in an interview that year.
At Heathrow to go to NY, but seeing this plane that I guess will be in Tokyo tomorrow thought I’d send a piece of my heart via ANA to my friends in Japan.
1. R.I.P. the dancer and dance teacher Eve Leveaux, who died yesterday. She was trained by Marie Rambert and danced for Ballet Rambert before she married Dr Vivien Leveaux and had a family.
Very proud of everyone involved and not necessarily listed here. Also for the reckless passion of
@OfficialALW
and
@SirTimRice
who majestically defied wisdom.(Not Wisden, Tim).
Must say: whoever it was who realized that the Biden/Harris/Obama rallies should take place in parking lots to observe social distancing is a genius.The sound of those car horns answering in rhythm and out of rhythm is a stunning expression of the real silent majority.And the US.