Gemma Allred
@gemmaallred.bsky.social
Shakespeare / Early Modern / Digital Theatre / Musicals / Innovation / Marketing
Up next a publishing workshop with @benbroadribb.bsky.social and @norajw.bsky.social for @shaxbull.bsky.social #BritGrad2025
Heading into day three of #BritGrad2025 up first Ruby Granger…
It’s the final plenary of the day with @drpetekirwan.bsky.social zooming in…. Following Paige Calvert’s excellent paper … does puppet Pete’s presence make this a split role?
As we head into day two of #BritGrad2025… my paper was yesterday … so here’s what you missed: That’s not my hamlet …
Post coffee… and Cassie Martin is examining using AI and chatbots in education. #BritGrad2025
Heading into the after lunch panels … up first Ian Donnelly on Ophelia in Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis #BritGrad2025
If you are at #BritGrad2025 and have any questions about @benbroadribb.bsky.social @edelsemple.bsky.social and my seminars at @saaupdates.bsky.social in Denver or the World Shakespeare Congress in Verona next year do track me down!
Dr. Benjamin Broadribb@benbroadribb.bsky.social · last yr.You wait for ages for a seminar co-organised by @gemmaallred.bsky.social @edelsemple.bsky.social and me, and then two come along at once! Thrilled that "Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet at Thirty" will be part of the @saaupdates.bsky.social program in 2026 💖 #Shax2026 /1
The sun is shining the sky is blue and Britgrad is underway. #BritGrad2025
Excited to be co-organising a seminar with @gemmaallred.bsky.social and @edelsemple.bsky.social at the World Shakespeare Congress! 🌍🎭 Join us in Verona to talk about Shakespeare’s Tragedies and their Twenty-First-Century Reverberations. If you have any questions, please do get in touch 🙂 #WSC2026
Has anyone in my network been to the Olivier awards… I have a ticket as a member of the public… do I need to dress up?
Five years ago today, physical theatre spaces in the UK were forced to go dark as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold of the nation and the world. I remain in awe of what creative practitioners achieved during a time of unimaginable loss and uncertainty through the will to innovate, adapt and survive /1
/2 by moving into digital spaces during the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. My continued hope is that Lockdown Shakespeare, which I co-edited with @gemmaallred.bsky.social and Erin Sullivan in 2022, goes some way to capturing and doing justice to the work that took place during that extraordinary time.
Enjoyed robust debate in the Abridging Shakespeare seminar yesterday - always great to have seminar members who engage with your paper - even if my underlying argument is framed in negatives: that Hamlet doesn’t exist and the act of abridgment is better described as an act of expansion. #Shax2025
It’s afternoon so I am now Bailey who? And all about the Lloyd/Atwell/Hiddlestone … bring on Much Ado!
Just a little bit excited for a Richard II @bridgetheatre.bsky.social tonight!
This may just be me… but the word ‘eateries’ gives me the ick.
Santa has been, the 9 year old woke us up at 440am in excitement as there were presents at the end of his bed! #JoinIn
All ready for the morning… @nigella.bsky.social Christmas morning muffins… prepped and ready! #JoinIn
Theatre thoughts from super Saturday… Jamie Lloyd The Tempest - intriguingly dark and Ariel stole the show (as it should be). Donmar Macbeth - I could watch that production for ever and never need another version!
Also @rickydukes.bsky.social popping into the ladies at Southwark Playhouse… literally stopped at the door with a very visual flashback of Ophelia in @lazarustheatre.bsky.social Hamlet.
