There is now a small - but not inconceivable - chance that the the last event of the Starmer premiership will be England winning the World Cup
Vinay Patel
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Writes scripts, feeds cats, tries to not fuck up that thing you love | Murdered By My Father, Doctor Who, One Day | Associate Playwright, Royal Court Theatre
Anyway will be doing some thoughts about supporting England in next newsletter but, for now, reposting my blog from 2021 and want to say last night was the most fun I've had watching England in ages and ages. Pure chaos and light. More of that, please... vinayskpatel.wordpress.com/2021/07/09/t...
This Time, More Than Any Other Time
To watch England play football is to worry about England fans. You learn that at a young age here. You might love football. You might have a great deal of affection for England itself. But there ar…
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Just a reminder that posting "Oh is the sportsball on?" does not make one a profound, sexy individual
My boring take, from other people’s experiences and my own: Doctor Who is a ferociously difficult, near-inhumane show to produce. Brutal for every department, but particularly for one person to hold at the top as it is. If they want the best range of pitches, the production model needs rethinking
"There are three deaths for a TV show: the first is when the current series ends. The second is when they announce there isn't another series planned. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when a fan fiction is written for the last time"
"Far more embarrassing, surely, is the fact that Reform UK has not replaced its candidate. Multiple newspapers and the campaign group Hope Not Hate have all been able to claim scoops simply be trawling Robert Kenyon’s social media history. This is not a good sign." Latest column, on Makerfield etc
One simple fact shows Reform and the Greens are nothing alike
The parties’ responses to candidates’ controversies in Makerfield reveal their true characters
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This month's post...Marcia Lucas, workshops, trying to keep the faith substack.com/home/post/p-...
Their Facts, My Fictions
On Marcia Lucas, usefully mortifying workshops, and career tapestry
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between the weather and the bank holiday and the president threatening genocide, I am finding it mighty hard to get back into the swing of work, I must say
Girl, are you a trans-lunar injection burn cause you’re escaping my orbit at a speed of approximately 24,500 to 25,000 mph
Was haunted by Columbia, I’ll never forget the newspaper front pages with a photo of a charred helmet in a Texan field. But…I also have thought of this at random points in the last twenty years and it is silly and strange and poignant all at once
I’m afraid humans going into space will always be astonishing to me and I feel grateful to be alive and emotionally invested in this era before the inevitable McDonalds on the Moon stage
Not much has changed since last year. Except that...I'm bringing my Patelograms newsletter back. First post this weekend. Will be nice to talk at you all but in a longer format.
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Devastating to learn that famously very good play Arcadia is, in fact, very good
We asked d/Deaf actors and BSL interpreters to tell us all about how they use sign language on stage. What’s it like, translating written English to BSL? Or trying to sign for multiple characters at once? Or interpreting the dense poetry of Shakespeare, or how a song is being sung in a musical?
BSL on stage: 'It gives me the ability to express so many more things'
From signing Shakespeare to rapping in a musical: how sign language can light up our stages
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The Spirit of Cricket isn’t found on the field - it’s found on a random square outside a pub after a game finishes early where disappointed fans - strangers all - join together to bowl a few overs at a lad clutching a thermos as a bat
Because I’ve misheard the lyrics since childhood I’ve only now realised that Tina Turner’s “We Don’t Need Another Hero” is about escaping the Thunderdome from Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome
Playwrights! Screenwriters! Friends of playwrights and screenwriters! If you're in London on the 24th July PLEASE join us for a #SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial at Soho Theatre Walthamstow. Pls share.
the Fantastic Four cast get asked about their own personal fantastic four, which leads to some canned niceties from pascal, kirby and quinn, and an insanely he knows ball answer from ebon.
Watched The Phoenician Scheme (at a dog friendly screening, yes) and then for some reason came home and double-biller it with The French Connection and boy was that some tonal whiplash
Oh wow! Finally getting Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo over here (and directed by Omar Elerian which is A Good Call)
For the late night crowd, stayed up to finish recaps on THE FINAL ANDOR EPISODES - and holy cow, what a poetic, spy-filled, thoughtful, measured, exciting and emotionally poignant series. I am stunned (and can't wait to watch Rogue One in context, that'll come soon) www.patreon.com/posts/128920...
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Happy Andor finale day! Revisiting my old piece about Rogue One again and the me from 9 years ago would've been delighted with how that film lead to such terrific television vinayskpatel.wordpress.com/2016/12/28/r...
ROGUE ONE OR: THE WAR DOESN’T CARE ABOUT YOUR GODDAMN HERO NARRATIVE CHARACTER ARC, SOLDIER
CAVEATS #1 – What Rogue One attempts to do is almost certainly more interesting if you’re a Star Wars fan and there’s no denying that there is a huge amount of fan service going on in this mo…
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I say this not as a slam, but as idle thought: I wonder if I am emotionally (if not professionally) sanguine about AI in the scriptwriting world because I don’t know how it feels materially different to a few people writing what seems like everything?