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James Graham
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James Graham
@mrJamesGraham
Writes: plays & emails 🎭 📺🎬 Dear England - Sherwood - Quiz 🌳 Nottinghamshire / London
Joined May 2010
- A Prime Minister may fall today. Soak up the history, guys. Days like today only come around every couple of months
- Can I just check, we’re all sometimes just putting the exact same clothes back on the following day, aren’t we.
- Live alone. This morning through muscle memory I put some aftershave on, and then said to myself “who you doing that for?” And then winked at my reflection and said “YOU, babes”. Which made me smile. And then I cried. Morning! #LivingAlone
- Hope everyone is enjoying The Crown, which began as a play on stage, just like Fleabag came from the stage like Quiz and The Kings Speech and Mamma Mia and writers on Succession and director of Skyfall and adaptors of Normal People and His Dark Materials and and #BritishTheatre
- They’re cancelling art & humanities degrees at uni where students aren’t in skilled jobs in 6 months. They would have cancelled my drama degree at Hull on that basis. I wouldn’t have become a writer. I wouldn’t have written #Sherwood. Other writers wouldn’t have written theirs.English lit degree at Sheffield Hallam is being “suspended.” University responding to Government who will no longer fund degrees where 60% students don’t end up in “highly skilled” jobs within 6 months.
- The entire artistic team at the Theatre Royal Plymouth are being made redundant in 3 days. That’s one of the largest, most well attended theatres outside London. A theatre that now has no artists, and they won’t be coming back. Our world-beating cultural landscape is in collapse
- Southampton’s Nuffield Theatre is closing for good. 60yrs of investment, training & serving its community. All profitable in normal times, just needed shortfall funding while closed & it didn’t come in time So sorry to the 86 made redundant, & the locals who loved their theatre
- Really good point, apart from a couple of things @TVKev. Sherwood is a drama set in the modern day. It is nothing to do with the old story of Robin Hood. The role of Sheriff is a real civic position in Nottingham taken up by rotating councillors. It has been occupied by women
- It’s simply devastating. In the brief time hanging out and working with Helen she was just everything you’d hoped she would be - no airs or graces, generous, naughty, kind, & total class. She lit up our stages and screens. I’m so sorry to her family and loved ones.
- Holy shit, latest voting intention poll: CON: 30% (-4) LDEM: 20% (-1) LAB: 20% (-3) COLEEN: 16% (new entry) GRN: 5%(-) via @YouGov
- Forget Heathrow, has anyone checked how the Nine Elms millionaire’s sky pool is doing...?
- What’s that, you say? The major Golden Globes awarded to those skilled or found in British Theatre? Daniel Kaluuya wrote a play aged 9, breakout role @royalcourt. John Boyega at @TheatrePeckham. @JoshOConnor15 at @BristolOldVic, Emma Corrin in student theatre. Save the Arts 🎭
