Recorded my links today for the season I’ve curated of Royal Court plays from the BBC archives. Goes put last week of September on Radio 4 extra www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

BBC Radio 4 to celebrate contemporary playwriting this autumn in collaboration with Royal Court Theatre

New production of Lucy Kirkwood's The Children and season of landmark Royal Court plays from the BBC archive will be broadcast from 26 September

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Recorded my links today for the season of Royal Court plays from the BBC archive. Last week of September on 4 Extra. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

BBC Radio 4 to celebrate contemporary playwriting this autumn in collaboration with Royal Court Theatre

New production of Lucy Kirkwood's The Children and season of landmark Royal Court plays from the BBC archive will be broadcast from 26 September

bbc.co.uk

Catch up on bbc i player as i discuss this week’s cultural highlights

Discussing this and new films from Almodovar and Ridley Scott 7.15 tomorrow Thursday Radio 4 Front Row. I’d love you to listen

This looks fab! Great plays & actors. I was a bit surprised to see Stanley Holloway appearing in a new production, bearing in mind he died in 1982. But it turns out it's actually Stanley Townsend who's always excellent @markravenhill.bsky.social @radiotimes.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

International Playwrights Workshop with Mark Ravenhill Call for Participants: “Fake It, Baby, Fake It! Until Death Tears Us Apart” qendra.org/call-for-par... @markravenhill.bsky.social

Today I’ve been leading an acting workshop in London with teenagers on Romeo and Juliet. When the actors are the same age as the characters it’s very upsetting. Although the young actors described it as ‘fun’! So just me upset then.

A new thing

Brilliance from Naomi Aldermann Could a couch-to-5k for books get you back into reading?

Aquesta entrevista de l'Elisabeth Massana al Mark Ravenhill és estupenda. Imaginar-me-la explicant-li qui són La Maña i la Marta Bernal em fa moltíssima gràcia. @intersticis.bsky.social @markravenhill.bsky.social @nuvolpuntcom.bsky.social www.nuvol.com/teatre-i-dan...

Mark Ravenhill: «Encara confio en gairebé tots els éssers humans»

Conversem amb el dramaturg anglès aprofitant la seva visita a l'Obrador d'Estiu de la Sala Beckett

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Nice piece about the show on which i was a writer www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Pompeii: Out of Time With Tom Hiddleston – the tale of ordinary Romans’ hopeless heroism is tearjerking television

The Avengers star teams up with real-life scholars for a look at the eruption of Vesuvius. At points it’s elegiac and moving, at others it’s majestic and brutal

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I was interviewed today by someone who told me she had a Caryl Churchill tattoo. Too polite to ask to see it. Now I’ll always be wondering what it is ..

I’m in Barcelona all week leading a writers group at Sala Beckett with a public discussion Thursday 4pm

Excited to be part of this week of public meetings in Barcelona

Really enjoyed tonight’s screening of The Invite - sharp and stylish sex comedy

There is a cure for buffetphobia, but first you’ve got to want to help yourself.

If youre in Barcelona why not come to this ? www.salabeckett.cat/en/activitat...

Guillem Clua and Mark Ravenhill in conversation - Sala Beckett

Mark Ravenhill became known in 1996 with Shopping & Fucking, a play that already has its place in the history of English-language theatre. Guillem Clua has built up a solid career culminating (so far)...

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If youre in Barcelona why not come to this ? www.salabeckett.cat/en/activitat...

Guillem Clua and Mark Ravenhill in conversation - Sala Beckett

Mark Ravenhill became known in 1996 with Shopping & Fucking, a play that already has its place in the history of English-language theatre. Guillem Clua has built up a solid career culminating (so far)...

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Still blazing after all these years: Mel Brooks at 100

Still blazing after all these years: Mel Brooks at 100

The director of The Producers hits his century as a uniquely beloved entertainer who embodies his conviction that ‘comedy is the opposite of death’

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Borrowed a book today from the London Library and when it was stamped I saw that the last person to borrow it was 46 years ago! Late medieval French ‘fool’ plays must be kinda niche I guess …

I’ll be honest I went for the air con in the cinema but I really enjoyed Backrooms. Stylish with Charlie Kaufman meets Blair Witch vibes. And brilliant Chewitel Ejifor

Great night at the Komische Oper with this revue of East German jukebox hostory www.komische-oper-berlin.de/spielplan/a-...

Mokka-Hits und Milchbar-Träume | Komische Oper Berlin

Mokka-Hits und Milchbar-Träume, Axel Ranisch und Adam Benzwi, Eine Revue [2026], Besetzung: : Maria-Danaé Bansen, Gisa Flake, Mirka Wagner, Johannes Dunz, Philipp Meierhöfer, Nico Holonics, Thorsten M...

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Saw the film Savage House today: a little bit Barry Lyndon, a little bit The Favourite, a little bit The Draftmans Contract. Not quite those films equal but Clare Foy and Jack Farthing are compelling

‘And in the second act, I shall wear a gown in a lovely shade of crushed understudy’. (I slightly paraphrase). From the Ivor Novello play Comedienne, currently on BBC Sounds

I enjoyed this. Dame Sibyl in a forgotten Ivor Novello play on BBC sounds. Have a listen

Been asked to rethink an idea for a European project because it is too much like a play and could I reconsider it as an abstract poetic essay drama ? Never had that note in the UK ! And yes of course I will !

Farewell dear Swetlana. I got to know her a little in my time at the Berliner Ensemble and she came round to our flat in Kreuzberg. Great actor, great human

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das Berliner Ensemble trauert um die Schauspielerin Swetlana Schönfeld, die am 17.5. nach kurzer schwerer Krankheit in Berlin verstorben ist. zuletzt spiele sie am Berliner Ensemble 2017 in "Prinz Friedrich von Homburg" die Kurfürstin. www.berliner-zeitung.de/article/die-...

Cambridge event alert: I'm speaking at Great St Mary's on Saturday 14th at 7pm, on "Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears: Shared Lives, Shared Legacy". Do come along if you're in the area: tickets here share.google/rdfJPlLyqiNX...

Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears at the Red House: Shared Lives, Shared Legacy

Join us for a wonderful event entitled Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears at the Red House: Shared Lives, Shared Legacy by Christopher Hilton, Head of Archive and Library, Britten Pears Arts.

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On Front Row tonight: glorious Zurburán, The House of the Spirits as a Prime mini-series and Tom Wright’s play about Brian Epstein, Please Please Me. Join @mmdelgado.bsky.social and @markravenhill.bsky.social and me at 7:15 on Radio Four.

Tonight at 7.15pm BBC Radio 4 Front Row I’ll be discussing the week’s cultural highlights including my own culture pick. It s a live programme. It would be great if you could listen. Thank you.