Adrian Curtin
@adriancurtin.bsky.social
theatre, music, & the like
university of exeter
profile: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/21961-adrian-curtin
university of exeter
profile: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/21961-adrian-curtin
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Adrian Curtin
@adriancurtin.bsky.social
· Apr 30
Manchester University Press - The theatrical orchestra
The theatrical orchestra - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The theatrical orchestra by Adrian Curtin
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
My book The Theatrical Orchestra: British Music Ensembles Experiment with Performance is out! I write about some amazing groups and aim to convey the richness of their work. Please consider ordering a copy for your library. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177629/ @manchesterup.bsky.social
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The Climate Choir strikes again in King's Cross! 🎵🎶🎵 Rosebank, Rosebank, YOU SHALL NOT PASS! Burning the #Rosebank oil would emit more than 200 million tons of CO2, while not helping our energy security because the oil would be sold on the international markets. It's madness.
BREAKING: 🎶 Flash mob takes over King’s Cross Station in a protest against climate-wrecking Rosebank oil field.
Rosebank’s future is undecided. But together, we can stop it.
@climatechoirs.bsky.social have used their voices - will you use yours? 📣
Join us 👉 bit.ly/rosebankchoir
Rosebank’s future is undecided. But together, we can stop it.
@climatechoirs.bsky.social have used their voices - will you use yours? 📣
Join us 👉 bit.ly/rosebankchoir
September 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The Climate Choir strikes again in King's Cross! 🎵🎶🎵 Rosebank, Rosebank, YOU SHALL NOT PASS! Burning the #Rosebank oil would emit more than 200 million tons of CO2, while not helping our energy security because the oil would be sold on the international markets. It's madness.
Part of the ‘Gathering Ground’ exhibition at the Tate.
September 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Part of the ‘Gathering Ground’ exhibition at the Tate.
"I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
Opinion | I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.
www.nytimes.com
July 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
Hugh Shrapnel’s Improvisation Rite 44 (1969): 'Do something impossible, Do something possible; Make the impossible thing seem possible, Make the possible thing seem impossible'.
July 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Hugh Shrapnel’s Improvisation Rite 44 (1969): 'Do something impossible, Do something possible; Make the impossible thing seem possible, Make the possible thing seem impossible'.
A funny piece from Cornelius Cardew's The Great Learning (1971)
July 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
A funny piece from Cornelius Cardew's The Great Learning (1971)
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The Earthlings Family Orchestra has been creating music to, with & about the accompanying ambiences of Exeter's Lower Hoopern Valley. It's been interesting and surprising. I'll write it up soon. In the meantime, these silent pics show a little of the space we shared & the space we made.
June 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Earthlings Family Orchestra has been creating music to, with & about the accompanying ambiences of Exeter's Lower Hoopern Valley. It's been interesting and surprising. I'll write it up soon. In the meantime, these silent pics show a little of the space we shared & the space we made.
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ORGANS! clavichord, bon tempi organ, pipe organ, Venta organ, stylophone - Simon Belshaw has been 'converting pieces written to be played by a computer into pieces playable by musicians.' for our ECS concert 14/6. #ECSLostandFound #artweekexeter #artweekexeter25 #awe25
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June 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
ORGANS! clavichord, bon tempi organ, pipe organ, Venta organ, stylophone - Simon Belshaw has been 'converting pieces written to be played by a computer into pieces playable by musicians.' for our ECS concert 14/6. #ECSLostandFound #artweekexeter #artweekexeter25 #awe25
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My book Death in Modern Theatre: Stages of Mortality, first published by @manchesterup.bsky.social in 2019, is now out in paperback at a more affordable price. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191236/ The subject matter may be 'heavy', but now the book is lighter...
Manchester University Press - Death in modern theatre
Death in modern theatre - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Death in modern theatre by Adrian Curtin
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
My book Death in Modern Theatre: Stages of Mortality, first published by @manchesterup.bsky.social in 2019, is now out in paperback at a more affordable price. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191236/ The subject matter may be 'heavy', but now the book is lighter...
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This petition was created by postgraduates at Plymouth University, responding to the proposed cutting of fine art, performing arts and music.
This would be a huge loss to creative education in the region as well as to the city's cultural ecology and wellbeing.
Please sign.
This would be a huge loss to creative education in the region as well as to the city's cultural ecology and wellbeing.
Please sign.
Sign the Petition
Stop the cuts to Arts, Design & Architecture courses at University of Plymouth
www.change.org
May 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This petition was created by postgraduates at Plymouth University, responding to the proposed cutting of fine art, performing arts and music.
This would be a huge loss to creative education in the region as well as to the city's cultural ecology and wellbeing.
Please sign.
This would be a huge loss to creative education in the region as well as to the city's cultural ecology and wellbeing.
Please sign.
Staff & students @uniofexeterdrama.bsky.social attend an in-house screening of Romeo Castellucci’s strange yet beautiful piece Inferno (2008), inspired by Dante’s The Divine Comedy. What dreams may come!
May 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Staff & students @uniofexeterdrama.bsky.social attend an in-house screening of Romeo Castellucci’s strange yet beautiful piece Inferno (2008), inspired by Dante’s The Divine Comedy. What dreams may come!
My book The Theatrical Orchestra: British Music Ensembles Experiment with Performance is out! I write about some amazing groups and aim to convey the richness of their work. Please consider ordering a copy for your library. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177629/ @manchesterup.bsky.social
Manchester University Press - The theatrical orchestra
The theatrical orchestra - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The theatrical orchestra by Adrian Curtin
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
April 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
My book The Theatrical Orchestra: British Music Ensembles Experiment with Performance is out! I write about some amazing groups and aim to convey the richness of their work. Please consider ordering a copy for your library. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177629/ @manchesterup.bsky.social
Spotted at the Glucksman museum in Cork. I initially thought it was a real person.
April 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Spotted at the Glucksman museum in Cork. I initially thought it was a real person.
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Breaking: 200-strong Climate Choir stages flashmob in St Paul's Cathedral, demanding that @churchofengland.org - a top ten UK landowner - #rewild 30% of its land.
Nature is in crisis. Time to #RewildTheChurch!
@wildcard.land
#ChurchofEngland #nature #wildlife #choir #climate #whatwouldjesusdo
Nature is in crisis. Time to #RewildTheChurch!
@wildcard.land
#ChurchofEngland #nature #wildlife #choir #climate #whatwouldjesusdo
March 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Breaking: 200-strong Climate Choir stages flashmob in St Paul's Cathedral, demanding that @churchofengland.org - a top ten UK landowner - #rewild 30% of its land.
Nature is in crisis. Time to #RewildTheChurch!
@wildcard.land
#ChurchofEngland #nature #wildlife #choir #climate #whatwouldjesusdo
Nature is in crisis. Time to #RewildTheChurch!
@wildcard.land
#ChurchofEngland #nature #wildlife #choir #climate #whatwouldjesusdo
Loré Lixenberg's call for The Voice Party, a participatory operatic political structure that proposes to radically musicalise the entire fabric of society. Taken from the open-access book, Classical Music Futures: Practices of Innovation: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116....
March 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Loré Lixenberg's call for The Voice Party, a participatory operatic political structure that proposes to radically musicalise the entire fabric of society. Taken from the open-access book, Classical Music Futures: Practices of Innovation: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116....
Exeter Drama finalists have presented devised work for audiences around the city. There were shows about female codebreakers, fast fashion, women’s football, AI, the nature of art, our relationship with light, political cabaret, & toxic relationships. Quite a mix!
@uniofexeterdrama.bsky.social
@uniofexeterdrama.bsky.social
March 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Exeter Drama finalists have presented devised work for audiences around the city. There were shows about female codebreakers, fast fashion, women’s football, AI, the nature of art, our relationship with light, political cabaret, & toxic relationships. Quite a mix!
@uniofexeterdrama.bsky.social
@uniofexeterdrama.bsky.social
A shopfront curiosity in Exeter.
March 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A shopfront curiosity in Exeter.
to what shall I / compare this world of ours –
February 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
to what shall I / compare this world of ours –
‘The Ostrich Dance of Renita Kramer’ (1950s).
February 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
‘The Ostrich Dance of Renita Kramer’ (1950s).
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Statement from the Royal Musical Association on the School of Music at Cardiff University: www.rma.ac.uk/2025/02/03/s...
Statement from the Royal Musical Association on the School of Music at Cardiff University – Royal Musical Association
www.rma.ac.uk
February 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Statement from the Royal Musical Association on the School of Music at Cardiff University: www.rma.ac.uk/2025/02/03/s...
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Cardiff University is at the forefront of music education in the UK – a leader in composition, musicology and performance. Losing the music department would be a terrible loss to the cultural life of Wales and the wider musical world.
If you care about music at all, please sign the petition below.
If you care about music at all, please sign the petition below.
Sign the Petition
SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC
www.change.org
January 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Cardiff University is at the forefront of music education in the UK – a leader in composition, musicology and performance. Losing the music department would be a terrible loss to the cultural life of Wales and the wider musical world.
If you care about music at all, please sign the petition below.
If you care about music at all, please sign the petition below.
Simon Stephens enthusiastically leads a playwriting workshop for Drama and Creative Writing students at the University of Exeter. @uofedrama.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Simon Stephens enthusiastically leads a playwriting workshop for Drama and Creative Writing students at the University of Exeter. @uofedrama.bsky.social
Supportive messages and tips from last year's graduating students @exeterdrama.bsky.social on display for this year's finalists as they begin work on their Practical Essay projects -- hat tip to @evom.bsky.social.
January 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Supportive messages and tips from last year's graduating students @exeterdrama.bsky.social on display for this year's finalists as they begin work on their Practical Essay projects -- hat tip to @evom.bsky.social.
Samuel Beckett’s hands, 1980.
January 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Samuel Beckett’s hands, 1980.
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For all the interested in the role of music and sound in contemporary theatre, may I shamelessly plug my podcast (with many esteemed guests!) Staging Sound: stagingsound.podigee.io
Staging Sound. Reflecting theatre music and sound design
This podcast accompanies the research project "The Sound of Theatre", supported by the Centre for Advances Studies at the University of Munich. We will explore questions around the current research in...
stagingsound.podigee.io
December 2, 2024 at 12:12 PM
For all the interested in the role of music and sound in contemporary theatre, may I shamelessly plug my podcast (with many esteemed guests!) Staging Sound: stagingsound.podigee.io