Christopher Spring
@springwritenow.bsky.social
Communications/PR for Theatres; producer of OommoO by Lula Mebrahtu (currently booking for tours).
I stand with all of my Jewish friends today and forever. This has been a horrible day. Sending love to all of you who are affected.
December 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I stand with all of my Jewish friends today and forever. This has been a horrible day. Sending love to all of you who are affected.
Today, obviously is despicable in Sydney. But Primal Scream's imagery at the concert is awful too. Enough of the antisemitism.
December 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Today, obviously is despicable in Sydney. But Primal Scream's imagery at the concert is awful too. Enough of the antisemitism.
Edinburgh Fringe With Spice have posted our 2025 update - a highly visual book, digital platform and ticketing giveaways for global majority audiences. Thank you all for your support including Underbelly @lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social @thestage.co.uk. <3 <3 x
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Edinburgh Fringe With Spice 2025 - Addressing the audience imbalance of the Edinburgh Fringe directly
An update on the book and digital platform created by LULA.XYZ - debuted at this year's Festival
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December 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Edinburgh Fringe With Spice have posted our 2025 update - a highly visual book, digital platform and ticketing giveaways for global majority audiences. Thank you all for your support including Underbelly @lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social @thestage.co.uk. <3 <3 x
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I'm going to say something controversial:
AI is great for those of us with severe ADHD. It means we're no longer editing from a blank page. That is an amazing gift.
AI is great for those of us with severe ADHD. It means we're no longer editing from a blank page. That is an amazing gift.
December 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I'm going to say something controversial:
AI is great for those of us with severe ADHD. It means we're no longer editing from a blank page. That is an amazing gift.
AI is great for those of us with severe ADHD. It means we're no longer editing from a blank page. That is an amazing gift.
Oh wow - David Lammy really passed it. Imagine throwing away a process that's been in place for 800 years because people can't create a proper working process....?
This has been a right for literally a thousand years - stop framing underinvestment as somehow a thing we have to lose rights about. What. The. Fudge.:
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Oh wow - David Lammy really passed it. Imagine throwing away a process that's been in place for 800 years because people can't create a proper working process....?
Stranger Things is just brilliant. It's so good to see a new blockbuster created in a large studio with budget and actually be a successful new story.
Love to see it, want to see more of it
Love to see it, want to see more of it
November 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Stranger Things is just brilliant. It's so good to see a new blockbuster created in a large studio with budget and actually be a successful new story.
Love to see it, want to see more of it
Love to see it, want to see more of it
From an accessibility POV: Warner Brothers Studios has nailed it at Harry Potter World. Incredible. They've incorporated accessibility into absolutely everything - beautiful to see. Intro videos giving a visual tour ahead of time, subtitles, clear instructions, quiet rooms, all sorts. Well done.
November 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
From an accessibility POV: Warner Brothers Studios has nailed it at Harry Potter World. Incredible. They've incorporated accessibility into absolutely everything - beautiful to see. Intro videos giving a visual tour ahead of time, subtitles, clear instructions, quiet rooms, all sorts. Well done.
Petition to ban flashback episodes in Netflix series; they are just terrible substitutions for exposition.
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Petition to ban flashback episodes in Netflix series; they are just terrible substitutions for exposition.
This has been a right for literally a thousand years - stop framing underinvestment as somehow a thing we have to lose rights about. What. The. Fudge.:
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This has been a right for literally a thousand years - stop framing underinvestment as somehow a thing we have to lose rights about. What. The. Fudge.:
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Hearing a major CEO telling the business editor of the Today Programme that they have projected they will cut 1/3 of their office workforce on the radio is toe curlingly scary. #r4today
November 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Hearing a major CEO telling the business editor of the Today Programme that they have projected they will cut 1/3 of their office workforce on the radio is toe curlingly scary. #r4today
I cannot be the only person dismayed when you spend 2-3 hours on a draft to then send it to someone and have it returned with a "I've had a re-jig" to only put it through ChatGPT and make it distinctly worse? Unbelievably depressing time.
November 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I cannot be the only person dismayed when you spend 2-3 hours on a draft to then send it to someone and have it returned with a "I've had a re-jig" to only put it through ChatGPT and make it distinctly worse? Unbelievably depressing time.
Some pieces of TV are just pure THEATRE on-screen; a prime example being Peaky Blinders.
Throughout the show the sets, costume and even the cinematography is just pure pure pure theatre in its heightened naturalism. Now I'm out of London, on a mission to find more TV like this - suggestions please!
Throughout the show the sets, costume and even the cinematography is just pure pure pure theatre in its heightened naturalism. Now I'm out of London, on a mission to find more TV like this - suggestions please!
October 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Some pieces of TV are just pure THEATRE on-screen; a prime example being Peaky Blinders.
Throughout the show the sets, costume and even the cinematography is just pure pure pure theatre in its heightened naturalism. Now I'm out of London, on a mission to find more TV like this - suggestions please!
Throughout the show the sets, costume and even the cinematography is just pure pure pure theatre in its heightened naturalism. Now I'm out of London, on a mission to find more TV like this - suggestions please!
Theatre ... Bluesky... is there a play about the moment of the downfall of the Berlin Wall? I am obsessed with it and want to find a way of dramatising that exact moment.
October 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Theatre ... Bluesky... is there a play about the moment of the downfall of the Berlin Wall? I am obsessed with it and want to find a way of dramatising that exact moment.
Dear Mr Starmer - we live on an island. Our borders aren't going to be made safer by digital IDs, just our personal freedoms made more complicated when we (excuse me whilst I laugh - "non-white" people) will be asked to show our IDs at every conceivable opportunity by the police.
September 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Dear Mr Starmer - we live on an island. Our borders aren't going to be made safer by digital IDs, just our personal freedoms made more complicated when we (excuse me whilst I laugh - "non-white" people) will be asked to show our IDs at every conceivable opportunity by the police.
@canongate.co.uk - attacking @thetimes.com for a bad review is just not a good look. There is a remarkable similarity between both endings, and pointing it out is covered under "honest opinion". Goodness me, folks. You're allowed to receive a bad review.
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Len Pennie — Scotland’s worst poet since William McGonagall
Poyums annaw, the latest collection by the TikTok-famous poet Len Pennie, deals with serious issues — but it’s hard to take her poems seriously
www.thetimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
@canongate.co.uk - attacking @thetimes.com for a bad review is just not a good look. There is a remarkable similarity between both endings, and pointing it out is covered under "honest opinion". Goodness me, folks. You're allowed to receive a bad review.
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
As @BBCr4today were interviewing vulnerable people in camps in Northern France, whipping up racism and not pointing out the insanity of people running from conflicts having to apply for asylum with IDs and passports. Have some insight into life on the camps there. #r4today
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A report from the Jungle in Calais - A Hummingbird Project special — Christopher Spring
As I sit back in comfortable Brighton a couple of days after returning from Calais – the “Jungle” is feeling more and more like a bad dream.
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September 18, 2025 at 6:14 AM
As @BBCr4today were interviewing vulnerable people in camps in Northern France, whipping up racism and not pointing out the insanity of people running from conflicts having to apply for asylum with IDs and passports. Have some insight into life on the camps there. #r4today
bit.ly/3VVYxx0
bit.ly/3VVYxx0
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Russia’s War On Ukraine’s Culture - North West End UK
Historically, the last week of August in Ukraine is a time of commemoration, and this year was no exception. The 29th August, ‘A Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of Ukraine’, is a day when the Ukr...
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September 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The BBC are seriously entertaining the removal of Human rights to deal with a made up "crisis" that Brexit didn't solve either. The removal of Human rights is vast, and never temporary.
Also, never trust a man who dehumanises people down to "boat people".
#R4today
Also, never trust a man who dehumanises people down to "boat people".
#R4today
August 29, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The BBC are seriously entertaining the removal of Human rights to deal with a made up "crisis" that Brexit didn't solve either. The removal of Human rights is vast, and never temporary.
Also, never trust a man who dehumanises people down to "boat people".
#R4today
Also, never trust a man who dehumanises people down to "boat people".
#R4today
LL COOL J - I'm Bad (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by LLCoolJVEVO
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June 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Great to see that the "enshittification"(™️Ben Plesser) of the world has now bled into the arts.
It's sort of fucking ridiculous that we've decided that human endeavour and creation is just free. Well done:
www.thestage.co.uk/news/cultura...
It's sort of fucking ridiculous that we've decided that human endeavour and creation is just free. Well done:
www.thestage.co.uk/news/cultura...
AI bill passes through parliament without amendment
A controversial data bill, which has garnered opposition from leading industry figures, has passed through parliament without an amendment that would have given creatives more control over their work
www.thestage.co.uk
June 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Great to see that the "enshittification"(™️Ben Plesser) of the world has now bled into the arts.
It's sort of fucking ridiculous that we've decided that human endeavour and creation is just free. Well done:
www.thestage.co.uk/news/cultura...
It's sort of fucking ridiculous that we've decided that human endeavour and creation is just free. Well done:
www.thestage.co.uk/news/cultura...
Do we think Trump just wakes up and thinks: "I wonder what nonsense I'm going to do today - it is Thursday after all."
June 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Do we think Trump just wakes up and thinks: "I wonder what nonsense I'm going to do today - it is Thursday after all."
Dear @googledocs.bsky.social - no: "Chairman" is not the reasonable autocorrection of "Chairwomaen" [Sic]. There's another word much closer to that spelling that makes much more sense....
March 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Dear @googledocs.bsky.social - no: "Chairman" is not the reasonable autocorrection of "Chairwomaen" [Sic]. There's another word much closer to that spelling that makes much more sense....
February 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Imagine going to the theatre and being alienated by LGBTQ+ people? The theatre is one of the most inclusive and safe spaces historically.
This is absurd and, if it didn't need being said again: LGBTQ+ people love the theatre (OBVIOUSLY)
Keep being fab
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
www.thestage.co.uk/news/perform...
This is absurd and, if it didn't need being said again: LGBTQ+ people love the theatre (OBVIOUSLY)
Keep being fab
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
www.thestage.co.uk/news/perform...
Performers' safety in spotlight as further homophobic abuse is reported
Venues and producers are facing pressure to ’ensure performers’ safety’ following a further incidence of homophobia from an audience member during a performance
www.thestage.co.uk
February 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Imagine going to the theatre and being alienated by LGBTQ+ people? The theatre is one of the most inclusive and safe spaces historically.
This is absurd and, if it didn't need being said again: LGBTQ+ people love the theatre (OBVIOUSLY)
Keep being fab
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
www.thestage.co.uk/news/perform...
This is absurd and, if it didn't need being said again: LGBTQ+ people love the theatre (OBVIOUSLY)
Keep being fab
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
www.thestage.co.uk/news/perform...