But am over the flippin' moon to announce that I'll be taking up the position of Dramaturg
@NationalTheatre
from the beginning of April. Incredibly humbled and thrilled to be taking on what I expect to be the biggest and most exciting adventure of my career.
The Bounds by Stewart Pringle
Directed by Jack McNamara
Tensions rise during a medieval football game. A darkly comic play set in 1555, exploring national divides, rural identity and the extremes of village sports.
This co-production with
@LIVE
takes you deep into the
Would you like to come and work in my office? It's me, Ola Animashuwan, Dipo Baruwa-Etti, a photocopier and loads of books, and it's the warmest, most thrilling, challenging place I've worked. Associate Dramaturg role
@nationaltheatre
up for the nabbing.
Big thanks to the legendary Peggy Ramsay Foundation for £.
Writing round full-time work is a bit of a dick, but they've just made it all feel that little bit more do-able.
Also on a seaside retreat this week and just FINISHED A REDRAFT so I'm off to the pub to double-celebrate.
Very excited about pretty much everything in the NT season, but SO STOKED for you all to see 'Paradise', and to have the Beautiful, NORTHERN 'Standing at the Sky's Edge' here wot I so loved in Sheff, and that Ocean will be in the WE, and Lynette Linton will be here, and and etc.
Because the wonderful
@Gilltopia
is leaving us we need a new Senior Reader here at
@NationalTheatre
to be super-smart, super-organised, just all round super, really. Is it YOU? Plz share and/or apply here:
Look what has just arrived!
@NickHernBooks
Playtexts for
#TheBounds
written by
@stewartwpringle
our upcoming co-production with
@royalcourt
opening this Thurs 16 May - Sat 8 Jun. Get your copy from only £5 in our online shop to collect when you come to see the show!
Includes
First preview tonight - huge thanks to every single person who’s got the play to this point. Enjoy this custom made card from
@lozopus
providing an invaluable insight into the writing process. Here we go!
@LiveTheatre
First day of rehearsals for this today. Obviously facing an uncertain opening date now (well, we’re certain it WON’T be when we hoped) but
@MatthewParker75
has assembled a *killer* cast and we hope it will ride again soon! Love to everyone feeling that cold hard limbo this week.
Three
#Offie
noms for
#TrestlePlay
to wake up to! Best Male, Best Female and Most Promising New Playwright! A white stone day! Congrats to the brilliant Connie and Gary!
@OffWestEndCom
Got a new play having its first outing as part of
@2019Vibrant
@finborough
on June 17th. It's called THE WOODEN MEADOW and it's about pub theatres and art and loss. And you can get tickets here THANK YOU & GOODNIGHT.
A standing ovation on FIRST PREVIEW for
#JellyfishNT
tonight - so proud of that incredible team and beautiful cast. Danced my way home. Don't miss it
@NationalTheatre
.
Got some sad news and some happy news today folks! Sad first - I will be leaving the
@bushtheatre
on March 22nd, and saying goodbye to just the most inspirational team and building I have ever encountered. I'll be finishing work on
#Misty
and our current
#EWG
programme, then off!
Haven't even BEGUN to come to terms with the idea of Ru leaving, but I am seriously proud of this season of work. So many of my favourite artists making work of extraordinary ambition.
@nationaltheatre
Rebecca Frecknall will make her
@Nationaltheatre
directorial debut with The House of Bernarda Alba by Alice Birch, in a season that includes a new play about the creation of the NHS and a musical based on Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend
#AnAdventure
@bushtheatre
is everything I’ve dreamt it could be for all these YEARS. The biggest hearted dude in theatre has written the biggest hearted show in years. Take a bow
@VinayPatel
you brilliant bastard.
Have had trouble finding the words to describe how grateful I am to everyone who made
#TheBounds
- incredible artists who worked with such care and love and bravery. Firstly to
@JackMcNamara81
and his extraordinary team at
@LiveTheatre
who took a punt on this bloody mad show.
Pastures new Day 1 - first meeting at
@NationalTheatre
now, then travelling up north for 10 days to finish first draft of new
@PapatangoTC
play. Not gonna lie, pretty stoked.
THE WITCHES in the Olivier/ Nov 2023
A new musical version of Roald Dahl’s tale.
Directed by Lyndsey Turner, this show is filled with wit, daring and heart.
Book and lyrics by Lucy Kirkwood. Music and lyrics by Dave Malloy.
A co-production with
@roald_dahl
It’s the first recommendation I make to theatre-makers whose pockets don’t stretch to
#edfringe
- it’s more intensively curated, more affordable, more audience-dense than any other arts festival readily available. Love
@VAULTFestival
more every year.
📣 New podcast episode out now...
In this episode in the latest series of the Playwright's Podcast, host Susan Wokoma chats to writer of The Bounds, Stewart Pringle.
For the past decade, whenever anyone has asked me who the MVP of British theatre is, I've had one answer -
@mrdavebyrne
. I couldn't think of anyone better to run
@royalcourt
. Integrity, bravery, compassion, zero bullshit. Beyond huge news for playwriting AND playmaking. LET'S GO!
.
@royalcourt
boss
@mrdavebyrne
has appointed four associate playwrights – including
@RyanCalaisC
and Mike Bartlett – in a move that will mean they become part of a "collective leadership" model and develop the venue’s artistic programme.
Find out more 👉
So thrilled by the INCREDIBLE north-east cast bringing 'The Bounds' to life - what absolute legends. Can't wait to get started in a few weeks' time...
@LiveTheatre
@royalcourt
Banging Cast Announced For Live Theatre’s Kick Off Production Of The Bounds
The Bounds by
@StewartWPringle
Newcastle
@LiveTheatre
Thursday 16 May - Saturday 8 June 2024
Preview:
So thrilled that the Brilliant
@deirdre_OH
is taking over as Associate Dramaturg
@bushtheatre
- it’s my last day today and I feel like I’m leaving it in the safest of hands. GO DEE!
NEWS: The writers for Doctor Who Series 11 have been confirmed!
We of course have Chris Chibnall, Malorie Blackman, Ed Hime, Peter McTighe, Vinay Patel and Joy Wilkinson.
#DoctorWho
#JodieWhittaker
Taking a brrreak from Twitter because it is bad for my head and for my heart, and I just need to do some fucking work (and some fucking WRITING). I'll be back ev-en-tua-lly. x
As
@altontowers
have now fused my two greatest passions (Folk Horror and Rollercoasters) I no longer need theatre at all, so goodbye forever.
#WickerMan
We're excited to announce that
@stewartwpringle
's witty and tender play TRESTLE is now available for performance!
Find out more about this heartfelt story of two retirees settling into a new stage of life and finding new hopes:
The unique satisfaction you get from being ostentatiously delicate and polite with a hospitality worker who’s just been treated rudely by the previous customer.
It’s mine and
@lozopus
first
#DoctorWho
audio, what an honor to write for these actors, and to bring an old pal of ours along for the ride. It’s MONGOOSE TIME!
@bigfinish
The new
@royalcourt
season is *incredible* - so so thrilled to see so many of the best people on the bloody PLANET there.
@vicfeatherstone
and her team nailing it to the WALL.
Beth Steel is far too cool to be on Twitter, but feeling immensely proud of her today. A stunning artist and human who proves time and time again that there are no limits to working class stories, no imperatives to be polite, or dreary, or small. Soar, Steel, soar!
After not doing exercise for my first 34 years of being alive, am quite chuffed at this small
#Couchto5K
milestone. Thanks to
@MorganMagic
for the inspiration! Feeling much, much sorer in my day to day life now 👍👍👍
The year is 1553, it’s the Allen Valley Whitsun football Game and men will die today ⚽
Don’t miss The Bounds, a ★★★★ (The Stage) darkly comic folk horror exploring national divides, rural identity and the extremes of village sports.
Tickets from £15
Just my tuppence, and I see the risks here, but our lit team
@bushtheatre
will be catching 20+
@VAULTFestival
shows minimum, and the door very much not locked to future engagement.
Also just an addendum to the
@PapatangoTC
love-in yesterday - 6 years on and Trestle is currently in performance at the
@ChesilTheatre
, in rep at the Divadlo Ungelt in Prague AND in rehearsal in the
@RomileyTheatre
- Harry and Denise live on, all thanks to Team Papa!
Grief is the Thing with Feathers is absolutely soul-splitting. For a man who became near-dehydrated with crying in Paddington 2, that was just too too much.
The year is 1553, the true Golden Age of English football. It’s the Allen Valley Whitsun Game, and men will die today...
Today we say goodbye to Stewart Pringle's The Bounds, as it completes its run in our Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. Congratulations to the company on a brilliant
This is totally ridiculous and makes me so sad. Here's the team behind
#NassimthePlay
having an ice cream while we made it, obvs dangerous enemies of national security, all.
We’re sorry to announce that further performances of
#Nassim
at HOME have been cancelled. Despite continued efforts from HOME, writer and performer Nassim Soleimanpour and the authorities, Nassim has been unable to travel to Manchester due to a delay in the UK visa process.
Not often you feel flat-out honoured to be in a theatre watching a show, but Anna Deavere Smith
@royalcourt
tonight is like nothing else.
#NotesFromTheField
is utterly remarkable.
I am so so thrilled for the incomparably brilliant, compassionate and SMART
@Gilltopia
and obviously FURIOUS she is leaving us. The Soho are blessed to have her, that's for dang sure.
Like a dick I hadn't renewed my
@TheStage
subscription when it lapsed earlier this year, corrected that mistake now. If you can afford it, consider helping them now.
Here's some nice news on this DREADFUL day -
@NickHernBooks
have a bunch of plays available to license to perform online, inc one of mine. I'll happily donate my chunk of the fee to the arts charity of your choice if you fancy doing it.
#OperationMincemeat
by
@spitlip
is everything you've heard and more. Best new British musical in *checks watch* absolutely ages. Get the OCR in my ears and this show in the West End NOW. God it's brilliant.
@newdiorama
can apparently do Anything now. All hail.
In a break from me wanging on about
#TheBounds
here's what we did last summer. Mine and
@lozopus
first 6-part epic, Jo Jones and the Third Doctor meet some ancient enemies...
@bigfinish
Wonderful to be at Live Theatre last night for The Bounds by Stewart Pringle. Great writing, acting, direction. Disturbing, thought provoking, beautiful. Proper theatre.
@LiveTheatre
@JackMcNamara81
@susanwearbrown
Superb season from
@bushtheatre
- as well as championing brand new voices, continuing to back the artists they debuted in earlier seasons with rich-sounding second productions. This is how you nurture artists to grow and grow. Bravo!
We’ve announced 5 new shows today with tickets going on sale to the public on 9 November 🎉
- Nye
- Dear Octopus
- London Tide
- Till The Stars Come Down
- Underdog: The Other Other Brontë
#Gundog
the best thing I’ve seen in a very long time. Poetry that had my jaw clenched for 100 minutes like I’d bitten down on an electric fence. Fuck, FUCK. Longman can write.
God help me will the time ever come that I can read a book without turning to the back flap and mentally calculating how old they were when they wrote it.
This is superb from
@AdamLenson
- this is not an extreme position, this is not a restrictive set of demands, this is not anti-artistic freedom. It's just good sense. It's how you make art better.
New trailer drop 🔥⚽
The Bounds by Stewart Pringle opens in our Jerwood Theatre Upstairs on Thurs 13 June.
Don’t miss this ★★★★ (The Stage) darkly comic folk horror set in 1553, exploring national divides, rural identity and the extremes of village sports.
Tickets from
This is the best news in so long.
@tigerlise
is one of the best, brightest, coolest people I’ve ever worked with and she will SMASH it at
@gatetheatre
- Overjoyed!
Final night of
#Emilia
ripped the roof off. What a crowd, what a moment but also what a blinding show. So big-hearted on female friendship, education, marriage, motherhood, and ART. So in love with language and expression.
@mogster
killed it big time.