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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 19h

obviously the real thrill was Springsteen, who not only did the usual publicity blah, but he watched the film (while all the actors fucked off)

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 20h

it reminded me of (even if it wasn’t necessity that similar to) Birdland by Simon Stephens - now that was a play! In 2025 that would surely go straight into the West End on the back of Andrew Scott

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 20h

saw Deliver Me from Nowhere at the LFF - it’s a decent film albeit a bit vibes based in parts but it certainly hits a mood even if it could maybe interrogate it a bit more

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 1d

I enjoyed Bryony Kimmings’ Bog Witch, but it did feel quite a lot like a superstar performer simply being told they could do whatever they wanted for as long as they wanted www.timeout.com/london/theat...

Bog Witch, Soho Theatre Walthamstow review: Superstar performance artist Bryony Kimmings returns with an enjoyable – if indulgent – account of a year in her newly eco-friendly life

Bryony Kimmings has one heck of a fanbase: some big comedy names have played the 1,000-seater Soho Theatre Walthamstow since it opened in May, but none of them

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 2d

I took my children to a preview of ZooTown, the new immersive bit of London Zoo, and while I would question whether or not they learned anything I would say it’s very entertaining and well worth the £1 extra fee! www.timeout.com/london/news/...

I got a first look at London Zoo’s new immersive experience ZooTown before it opens to the public this weekend

Here’s what the fancy new role-play area for kids is like.

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 2d

a fact about me is that the episode of Seinfeld where George wants his old books back from an ex girlfriend and Jerry is like ‘why? Are you gonna read them again?’ entirely liberated me from sentimental attachment to books (even though I’m unclear on whether we’re meant to agree with Jerry or not)

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

One of the posts that got me flamed back in the old place was when I said I didn’t fetishise books as objects and wasn’t bothered if their owners wanted to rip them in half to make their baggage lighter or chuck them in the recycling once they’ve read them or whatever. Some people went ballistic

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 2d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 4d

a side note but as somebody who has never used ChatGPT, I am SORELY VEXED that it is apparently well into my beloved en dash

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 4d

this is all fantastically depressing www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 5d

it does feel like a good way of evading scrutiny/eking out a few more previews, although equally it must be said that the December calendar is ludicrous until about the 18th and then abruptly becomes impractical to open a show in

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 5d

a West End microtrend is major shows going into previews some weeks before Xmas and then not opening until January – Woman in Mind, Paranormal Activity and High Noon all opening the first week of Jan, which is now ludicrously stacked when last decade it would have been desolate

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 6d

Accepting that you can’t really pretend Troilus and Cressida is one for theatre noobs, I really enjoyed the Globe’s production, which managed to make it both madder and darker www.timeout.com/london/theat...

Troilus and Cressida, Shakespeare’s Globe review: This ultra rare revival of Shakespeare’s Trojan War play is bleak and bonkers in equal measures

Like many of Shakespeare’s deeper cuts, Troilus and Cressida is a bizarre (bordering on broken) play that is clearly only performed (sporadically) in the twenty

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 7d

Mary Page Marlowe at the Old Vic is a peculiar play that feels like it should have either had 11 different actors playing MPM across its 11 scenes or like, two, but having five with two of them famous and getting more scenes just leaves it feeling quite wonky www.timeout.com/london/news/...

Review: ‘Mary Page Marlowe’ starring Susan Sarandon and Andrea Riseborough at the Old Vic

The two women head up the cast of Tracy Letts’s dizzying tale of one woman’s life told in 11 scenes

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 10d

I don’t really get what ‘Tilly Norwood’ is actually supposed to do, like what is a scenario in which it would be deployed in a film, let alone a play

The Stage @thestage.co.uk · 10d

Demands for performers to be robustly protected from the "Wild West" of artificial intelligence have been made by both Equity and the Society of London Theatre, following the creation of AI Hollywood actor Tilly Norwood 👇

AI actor prompts calls for protection from 'Wild West' of tech

Demands for performers to be protected from artificial intelligence have been made by Equity and SOLT, following the creation of AI actor Tilly Norwood

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 10d

despite a good deal of admiration etc I’ve never really *connected* with a Beatles album before but have for whatever reason been absolutely rinsing Abbey Road this week

Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 13d

the new NT Hamlet is enjoyably scappy but a bit all over the shop and kind of makes me feel nostalgic for the billions of meticulously crafted blockbuster Hamlets we got last decade that seem to have suddenly dried up www.timeout.com/london/theat...

Hamlet, National Theatre review: Hiran Abeysekera is very entertaining as a fully mad prince in the National Theatre’s scrappy indie ‘Hamlet’

Is the era of the big celebrity Hamlet over? I mean, probably not: the play is 400 years old, and some seasonal variation is to be expected. Nonetheless, after

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 13d

yet again vindication of my theory that there’s no need to go to Broadway because everything good comes over here anyway www.timeout.com/london/news/...

The funniest Broadway comedy of the decade is heading to London’s West End this Christmas

Cole Escola’s outrageous historical comedy ‘Oh, Mary!’ is coming our way and not before time

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 13d

yeah – in isolation I really enjoyed the scene where he could hear all of Polonius’s asides, but what was it supposed to actually tell us (I was briefly toying w idea it’s meant to be like R&G are Dead except it’s Hamlet who realises he’s trapped in Hamlet… but no)

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 13d

it can work but depends what flavour of madness – my fave Hamlet still the batshit Michael Sheen one where he’d become unable to distinguish what was real or not, and I really enjoyed the Globe’s psychopath Hamlet of a couple of years back. This was a bit like 'crazy guy!' (but quite entertaining)

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 13d

to be fair I do usually have a weird reaction to the summer > autumn shift but after that I’m a big fan, number one season (though kid’ rampant delight in Halloween definitely part of it)

Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 13d

Autumn’s nice what did it ever do to hurt you? Too much mist? Too much mellow fruitfulness?

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 15d

(it looks like it’s meant to be a 'fun' take so fair enough etc)

Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 15d

new NT hamlet is 2hr 45min! pathetic!

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 15d

I mean I'm a bit hazy on why it wouldn’t simply be them running this glorious future-proofed club-slash-arts centre when it reemerges, but I can see why you’d deem it the end of an era

Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 15d

Sad news about Corsica Studios, which is I believe literally the only club I have been to in the last ten years (but more than once in the last ten years I’ll have you know!), although can’t help but be reasonably optimistic about their actual statement

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · 15d

happy quarter century, DiS, weird to think I was quite heavily involved in years nine to 16 of this

Drowned in Sound | Newsletter & Podcast & Community @drownedinsound.org · 15d

We’re 25 today. Which artists have we turned you onto over the years?