Thank you to everyone who came out to see my bilingual play MASTODASCIA last night!
A fantastic audience and a beautiful array of languages with Scots and Neapolitan being the jewels in the crown. 👑
Huge thanks to Derrick McClure for being such mesmerising chorus. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🙏 💙

A salient snippet from my Neapolitan lecture at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland last Wednesday.

So what’s a Deus Ex Machina?

And why is one featuring Maradona’s Napoli jersey being delivered to the Tron Theatre in Glasgow? 🎭 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌋
www.tron.co.uk/shows/mastod... 🎟 🎫

Cu Neil McClelland stammatina simmo state ô Teatro Tron ’e Glasgow pe vedé ’a Changing House addó ô 17 ’e Uttobbre pròssimo se rappresentarrà ’a traggedia dinto a duie atte Mastodascia.

For Scott McTominay, the Neapolitan language and culture assimilation is complete. 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌋 #mcfràtemo #mcmybrother

How the Italian ‘parla bene’ or ‘speak properly’ continues to perpetrate evil on Neapolitan schoolchildren and their parents/carers.
Language oppression is one of the most diabolical forms of violence…

Professor Magnus Course from the University of Edinburgh on the fundamental role played by my novels securing a future for the Neapolitan language.

There is much more to Neapolitan Language and Culture than the racialising gaze of Elena Ferrante and Roberto Saviano... even AI knows it.

Che ato le putesse maie augurà a na guagliona eccezionale – patuta ’e Taylor Swift – ca chesta semmana fa diciotto anne? #nuncrésceremaie 🎂 🪄 ❤️

What else could I wish such an amazing girl – and Swiftie – who will be turning eighteen this week? #nevergrowup

VUIE FASCISTE GIÀ ÂTE PERZO
(All you fascists are bound to lose)

ô viulino antifascista (on the anti fascist fiddle) 🎻 Jamie Wilson

‘All you fascists’ - words by Woody Guthrie

The teaching of heritage languages should be left to the professionals.

That is why my auntie Clementina has often led my lessons at Glasgow University. She spent her whole life speaking and thus teaching us all kids the wondrous beauty of the Neapolitan language.

#heritagelanguages