Phelim McDermott
@openspacer.bsky.social
I improvise. I open space, I facilitate. I make unforgettable theatre, amongst others. Director My Neighbour Totoro. Akhenaten Artistic Director @ www.improbable.co.uk www.devotedanddisgruntled.com
🖼️🤔👓 After seeing @openspacer.bsky.social’s brilliant ‘Tao of Glass’ at Soho Place, I called it “a riveting tapestry of music, mystery & memory’. More enthusiasm is now available in my write-up for ArtMuseLondon here…
Echo chamber: ‘Tao of Glass’, Soho Place, London, UK
‘Tao of Glass’ is somewhere between play and performance art, a mix of memoir, meditation and music. It’s a show only actor-director Phelim McDermott could create, and probably only now. It brings …
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Tao of Glass: Phelim McDermott and Philip Glass play life in London's West End ✍️ Eleanor Knight bachtrack.com/review-tao-o...
LOVED Tao of Glass at Soho Place Theatre giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Tao of Glass review — Philip Glass inspires a piece of theatrical magic
Tao of Glass review — Philip Glass inspires a piece of theatrical magic
Phelim McDermott brings his playful, profound investigation into the power of music and theatre to London’s Soho Place
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I didn't realise Phelim McDermott's 'Tao Of Glass' was currently on a run in London's Soho. To this day I still believe it to be one of the finest and most moving theatre productions I've ever seen. If you have the chance, please, you have to go x www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j...
Tao of Glass review – stage magic as McDermott meditates on the minimalist master
This multifaceted and intensely personal homage to – and collaboration with – composer Philip Glass is a transcendent tapestry suffused with joy and wonder.
theguardian.com
London folk! Go and see this! It is fantastic. Years after it premiered in Manchester, but we do things first…
Tao of Glass review – stage magic as McDermott meditates on the minimalist master
This multifaceted and intensely personal homage to – and collaboration with – composer Philip Glass is a transcendent tapestry suffused with joy and wonder.
theguardian.com
RAVE ALERT! ★★★★★Mesmerising: Phelim McDermott's Tao of Glass is an extraordinary tribute to Philip Glass writes Helen Hawkins at Soho Place. Read her ★★★★★ review at theartsdesk.com/theatre/tao-...
Review of the Week: Tao of Glass at Soho Place ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @openspacer.bsky.social's passion-project tribute to composer @philipglass.bsky.social is not for everyone, but its audacity and originality shine through, writes Nerve theatre critic @dorianlynskey.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/review-the...
First five-star review of the year from me - for the magical, tender Tao of Glass www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j...
Tao of Glass review – stage magic as McDermott meditates on the minimalist master
This multifaceted and intensely personal homage to – and collaboration with – composer Philip Glass is a transcendent tapestry suffused with joy and wonder.
theguardian.com
REVIEW: Tao of Glass ★★★★★ "In exploring theatre ghosts, the show has created a theatre ghost for me. Utterly unforgettable" #WestEnd https://broadwaybaby.com/shows/tao-of-glass/838516
Am I Philip Glass's biggest fan? Er, no. Am I lost in admiration for Phelim McDermott's singular love letter to him? You bet. www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/tao-...
Tao of Glass review at @sohoplace: absolute one-off
Read our review of Tao of Glass review at @sohoplace, London. Phelim McDermott’s theatrical love letter to the music of Philip Glass is playfully absorbing
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‘Tao of Glass’ at Soho Place is a riveting tapestry of music, mystery & memory: Phelim McDermott is wit, raconteur, visionary & sage all rolled into one, making this universal, generous body of work deeply personal. I loved it.
Heartily recommending The Tao of Glass to anyone who can get to it over there. It’s glorious!💙🌟 (I haven’t been over to see Totoro but I am absolutely positive it’s brilliant too)
Phelim McDermott@openspacer.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt is a thing to recognize that one has two shows on in the west end: One you’re in, the other you directed, both have fab music, both have puppets and both should never have got there if you were to use any kind of logic or a mind that didn’t believe in magic. #philipglass #JoeHisaishi #Improbable
BBC Radio 3 In Tune Now Playing Philip Glass & Philip Glass Tao of Glass: 5. Closing
For thirty years I’ve watched Matilda Leyser turn the unexpected into an invitation—to improvise, to connect, to keep saying yes to life even to see the gift in the biggest challenge we have faced as a family. Do read this, share it, or join in if you can. Matilda Leyser – Fun Raising.
Fun Raising
Launching a fundraiser to support my healing from Leukaemia
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“Starfish and coffee is love for the soul.” Just sayin..
Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft came to see a show we made with The Tiger Lillies. “Shock-Headed Peter”. After the show they came backstage and he said. “We are very proud of you.” Happy Birthday Mel I’m proud of you for making it to 100.
Suggest you mark this day with a viewing of Rudkin's extraordinary and undervalued TV drama 'Artemis 81' www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6RG... Nothing stranger has ever been broadcast.
ARTEMIS 81 - BBC Sci-Fi Drama Thriller - Hywel Bennett - Sting - Dinah Stabb - TV Drama 1981 - SD
YouTube video by Steve's Bits And Bobs
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Ian Greaves@greavesian.bsky.social · last mo.A happy 90th birthday to David Rudkin, visionary writer of Afore Night Come, Penda's Fen, The Sons of Light and so much else besides. I am immersed in another of his plays for an upcoming book project. The sheer abundance of things to say about his work and what he himself says never fails to amaze.
“Planning is a new variety of the sin of pride.” Jacques Maritain in conversation with Ivan Illich. [I’m not really a tattoo person, but if I was, I think I could live with this on my forearm] Are you aware of this invitation?: aschoolcalledhome.org/illich-at-100/
Illich at 100 | a school called HOME
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Finally saw My Neighbour Totoro at the Gillian Lynne Theatre last night. The only word I can use to describe it is magical. A really classy production top to bottom from an insanely talented Japanese team. The puppets are jaw dropping.
We had a flying visit to London yesterday to catch My Neighbour Totoro at the Gillian Lynne Theatre. One of the most remarkable stage productions I’ve ever seem. Literally magical. Do catch it if you can before the Catbus leaves the West End in Jan 2027. #Totoro
I mean this is really like two of my secret worlds doing a crossover. Bigger than a Marvel DC tie in.
Aidan Wachter@aidanwachter.bsky.social · 2mo agoI had an excellent time chatting with Jo Hickey- Hall: youtu.be/B40gEwbaZqo?...
If ever there was an artist to celebrate the joy and Eros of being alive in this world it was David Hockney. Radicalism through the ecstasy of curiosity and vitality. #Hockney
It is a thing to recognize that one has two shows on in the west end: One you’re in, the other you directed, both have fab music, both have puppets and both should never have got there if you were to use any kind of logic or a mind that didn’t believe in magic. #philipglass #JoeHisaishi #Improbable
For centuries we have dreamed of building a time machine. Someday we may notice we had already built one. It was called a library.
Fund scholarship. Jadwiga of Poland knew this 600 years ago. Leaders should know now.
Rewatching all of Poirot and a new reaction gif just dropped
