Jen Tan
@djientan.bsky.social
Director | Nadia & Jody in Zombies, Run! | Geek | I like food and kicking things.
Brexit is the fuck up of all time. Arrived at the airport to be told that, despite my passport being valid till April next year, it *actually* expired 2 weeks ago because Brexit means your passport expires on the 10th anniversary of the issue date of your passport not the expiry date 😭😡🤬
I think my gallbladder got wind that it’s getting removed on Tuesday and has decided to give me one last kicking as a goodbye treat. Ouf.
Just done some recording in my home studio *in this heat* and it took me right back to the old Zombies, Run! sessions which, at times, were a right sweat box.
Guys, I miss living in London but it is too damn hot in your city these days. I fear I’ve reverted to my Northern roots.
I am currently having a lovely time directing Jekyll & Hyde with the Young Company @liveveryplay.bsky.social and if you happen to be in town next week, you should come hang out cos it’s gonna be wild.
At Schiphol airport. It is noticeable that the people getting rejected out of the EES/e-gates at passport control are more likely to be older folks. Is this a dry hands/non-tech native issue? In any case, there is a queue of fuming British Boomers. Or perhaps it’s punishment for Brexit?
You love to see it - Zombies, Run! still making headlines after *fourteen* years
If you want to run your first marathon in your 50s, it helps to be chased by zombies
When Ben Elton didn’t distract from the pain of moving my body, I found the perfect solution – the interactive smartphone game Zombies, Run!
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Today we watched Liverpool Anglican Cathedral on fire from our rehearsal room. Then one of the cast was stung by a wasp. It was all terribly dramatic.
Happy World Theatre Day! I’m starting rehearsals for this on Monday and I couldn’t be more excited to work with this brilliant group of young people at one of my favourite theatres.
Happy world book day from my cat and the ruff I made so my 5 year old can cosplay Shakespeare tomorrow. 😂
Glad someone else appreciates our weird little town and its disco bridge. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I visited Runcorn for the first time this week – and was blown away by its magic | Adrian Chiles
Decades after I first befriended one of the town’s sons, I finally got to see the place – or at least its glorious bridge, writes Adrian Chiles
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This is a beautiful show, made with care, love, and compassion — full of joy and magic. If the world feels heavy right now and you haven’t seen it yet, please go. It may gently warm your mind and leave you with a quiet smile. 🌱 @totoroshow.bsky.social @the-rsc.bsky.social @improbable1.bsky.social
He prefers it over Minecraft and honestly it’s such a balm to the soul.
Tom Morton-Smith@tommortonsmith.com · 10mo agoReceived the Monument Valley trilogy for the Nintendo Switch for Christmas, and my five year old has really taken to it. It’s so gorgeous and wholesome and he’s been so quick to pick it up. It makes my heart sing.
Boxing Day is homemade sausage roll day. Look on my works, ye mighty, and eat sausage rolls.
Today in the northern hemisphere the darkest week of the year is over. (Count: solstice was the 21st. The darkest week is that plus the three days either side.) So that’s something to enjoy. We’ve done the very darkest bit.
Wicked: For Good was all the excellence I was expecting and all the feels. What I hadn’t banked on is laughing the hardest I’ve laughed all year and for that I am immensely grateful. My sister and I were in STITCHES at Fiyero’s burlap face. Absolutely dying. 10/10.
Good news for fitness and running nerds. Zombies, Run! has been bought back by co-creator and author @naomialderman.bsky.social. "Zombies, Run! has been a community effort since the first Kickstarter, and we’ll keep it shambling on together," she tells The Verge. www.theverge.com/gadgets/8275...
Zombies, Run! isn’t headed for the grave after all
Good news, Runners Five.
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To receive updates about the new era of Zombies, Run! click zombiesrungame.com Naomi says: “The Zombies, Run! community is the most wonderful any writer could hope for as a home for her work. Stay safe out there, Runners, Five. We need you.”
Some good news for a Monday morning…
Naomi Alderman@naomialderman.bsky.social · 12mo agojust incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years: zombiesrungame.com observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
The Wind in the Willows: a Weasel’s Tale is now available for streaming on the BBC Sounds app:
Drama on 4 - The Wind in the Willows: A Weasel’s Tale - BBC Sounds
Kenneth Grahame's classic reimagined from the margins. Narrated by Penelope Wilton.
bbc.co.uk
My radio play, a variation on The Wind in the Willows, is a Pick of the Week in the current edition of @radiotimes.bsky.social. Listen at 3pm Sunday on BBC Radio 4.
My new radio play, ‘The Wind in the Willows: a Weasel’s Tale’ - narrated by the legend that is Penelope Wilton, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 3pm on 16th November. Details here:
BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The Wind in the Willows: A Weasel’s Tale
Kenneth Grahame's classic reimagined from the margins. Narrated by Penelope Wilton.
bbc.co.uk
I have had a lovely time playing with actors this past couple weeks: last week running the @newearththeatre.bsky.social Liverpool Theatre Makers Academy and this week workshopping a beautiful and heartbreaking new play with @tommortonsmith.com. It’s been great & I’d like to do more of it soon please
I joined a puppetry playtime workshop this evening and 10/10 would recommend as a balm for the soul. Feeling restored and entirely put back together. I love puppets.
My cat is cute, but also filthy (he will NOT let me give him a bath).
What does this even mean? Yakisoba? Extremely questionable, Pringles.
