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Gary Naylor @garynaylor85.bsky.social · 15h

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Review: THE TENANT'S REPUBLIC, Jack Studio Theatre

Looking for a New England? Here's Dondonia

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Political Football @politicalfootball.bsky.social · 16h

Jenrick saying that football in 80s was good natured fun. Fucking hell.

Fans were caged like animals behind fences and generally viewed by politicians and press as scum. His own party wanted to introduce ID cards to go to a game. They also wanted to ban fans from going abroad.

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Nessun Dorma Podcast @nessundormapodcast.bsky.social · 1d

Out now!

Our wider sport episode for 1985 is the Black Ball Final between Davis and Taylor, with 18m watching beyond midnight.

Mike Gibbons takes us through the action after Dominic Sandbrook explains the cultural opportunity that snooker enjoyed and that football couldn’t grasp.

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Gary Naylor @garynaylor85.bsky.social · 2d

"...approximately 80% of the UK's land classified as rural". It looks more than that when you travel through it. I'm sure it could stand going to 70%, especially if it were used more effectively.

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Gary Naylor @garynaylor85.bsky.social · 2d

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Review: THE FLOWERS OF SREBRENICA, Jacksons Lane

A shameful event in Eurpean history is recalled and set within its tragic context

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Gary Naylor @garynaylor85.bsky.social · 3d

Do you remember all those who told you in 2010, "They're all the bloody same!" Well, they're not, not then, not now.

Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 3d

Who could have predicted that this would not produce overwhelmingly positive consequences?

Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 3d

The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 3d

As a friend who was planning to go to the 2026 WC told me, "this settles it". He won't.

Comparison of prices between the prices of tickets at the 2022 and 2026 Fifa World Cup, showing prices increases of up to 1,000%.

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Gary Naylor @garynaylor85.bsky.social · 4d

Do people still say "Fans singing in the rain as England go nap"?

Gary Naylor @garynaylor85.bsky.social · 4d

Sweet Carolune

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Gary Naylor @garynaylor85.bsky.social · 4d

I'm an Earthleaver

Gary Naylor @garynaylor85.bsky.social · 4d

You Don't Bring Me Launch Towers

Gary Naylor @garynaylor85.bsky.social · 4d

Song Sung Blue Moon

Gary Naylor @garynaylor85.bsky.social · 4d

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Worth recalling just how brilliant he is as a singer - youtu.be/ooxpBzn6OK0?...

‘Risky is the best way to be’: Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom

From Rocky Horror to the Muppets, Curry’s extraordinary career made him world-famous. Then, a stroke left him paralysed. The actor talks about his cocaine years, his friendship with David Bowie – and ...

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Gary Naylor @garynaylor85.bsky.social · 4d

I'd rather they didn't but I can understand them using mics if they're doing six evenings and two matinees in some of the larger houses.

The line readings are as big a problem, but I partly blame directors for that.

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Gary Naylor @garynaylor85.bsky.social · 4d

I agree with every element of this argument except one - it's been a growing problem since much earlier than Covid times. I suspect it's related to body mics.

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Actors trained during pandemic lack vocal power and range, says RSC leader

Daniel Evans says young drama graduates who learned voice work online missed out on the physical presence of theatre training

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Gary Naylor @garynaylor85.bsky.social · 4d

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A ★★½ review of All the President's Men (1976)

Two subjective elements may well determine your reaction to this movie: do you enjoy wordy procedurals; do you warm to journalists as heroes? That I can say "Definitely not" and "Probably not" rather ...

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Gary Naylor @garynaylor85.bsky.social · 5d

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Review: THE MAGIC FLUTE, Royal Ballet and Opera

Technically unsurpassed, but is there a chill where its soul should be?

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 6d

It's almost like they're trying to tell us something...

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Gary Naylor @garynaylor85.bsky.social · 7d

Ah, Diane Keaton. Luna was as beautiful and as funny as any woman in film. Brilliant in everything else too.

I hope the hearse pulls up a little away from the sidewalk, and everyone walks to the pavement from there.

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Gary Naylor @garynaylor85.bsky.social · 6d

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Review: CYRANO DE BERGERAC starring Adrian Lester, RSC Swan Theatre

Adrian Lester is an astonishing presence in a new version of an enduring tale

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Gary Naylor @garynaylor85.bsky.social · 7d

Ah, Diane Keaton. Luna was as beautiful and as funny as any woman in film. Brilliant in everything else too.

I hope the hearse pulls up a little away from the sidewalk, and everyone walks to the pavement from there.

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theartsdesk.com @theartsdesk.bsky.social · 8d

★ 'The tone veers about vertiginously': raucous and carnivalesque, but also ugly and incomprehensible - @garynaylor85.bsky.social delivers a damning verdict on Troilus and Cressida, Globe Theatre - a 'problem play' with added problems he writes theartsdesk.com/theatre/troi...

Troilus and Cressida, Globe Theatre review - a 'problem play' with added problems

The Globe’s authenticity is its USP, so don’t expect the air-conditioning, the plush seats and the expectant hush of the National Theatre some 20 minutes walk away along the Thames. There’s not quite ...

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Gary Naylor @garynaylor85.bsky.social · 9d

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Ghost Stories, Peacock Theatre review - spirited staging but short on scares

In the framing device, a professor (Jonathan Guy Lewis) stands at a lectern and asks if anyone has had a supernatural experience. Somewhat to my suprise, up went my hand.In the cold winter of 1981/82,...

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Gary Naylor @garynaylor85.bsky.social · 9d

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Review: CARMEN, London Coliseum

If you liked Evita at the Palladium, you'll like Carmen at the Coliseum

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theartsdesk.com @theartsdesk.bsky.social · 8d

★★ Netflix star, Joe Locke, is the selling point of a production that needs one writes @garynaylor85.bsky.social on Clarkston, Trafalgar Theatre, featuring two lads on a road to nowhere theartsdesk.com/theatre/clar...

Clarkston, Trafalgar Theatre review - two lads on a road to nowhere

If you’re a Gen Zer, you’ve probably heard of Heartstopper’s Joe Locke. I’m pretty sure ATG’s Gen Xers in the back office had also heard of him, as tickets are priced up to and beyond £100 for a 100 m...

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