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Actor. @itg_ltd
Writer. @the_brit_list
@nickhernbooks
Director : @afamilyaffairfilm_ 🦑
@curiatv @snapper_films
Co- Founder of @5x5theatre

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Groupies for @clementinekeithroach always🏺🫳🏻🫴🏻💋

#soothsayerschorus @friezeofficial @jimmychoo
📸 @pierrickrocher

**Thank you @jimmychoo for hosting this beautiful show & I got to wear these stunning vintage @jimmychoo ‘s from @charitywakefield 💋💅

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“A screwball romantic comedy involving a sexually-fluid burglar being tied up naked to a kitchen worktop by a sexually-repressed soap opera actor where they sort of fall in love at the end? It is unabashedly itself and undeniably queer.”

Award-winning playwright Marcelo Dos Santos (Backstairs Billy; Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going to Happen) responds to the work of James Kirkwood Jr. and his 1975 play ‘P.S. Your Cat is Dead!”, which “feels as fresh, defiant and as emphatic as an exclamation mark’”.

Marcelo’s essay is featured in The AIDS Plays Project: Queer Plays from Trailblazing Writers Lost to HIV/AIDS, published by @methuendrama next month.

Marcelo Dos Santos is a playwright and scriptwriter. His plays include: Backstairs Billy (Michael Grandage Company, West End); Feeling Afraid (Roundabout at Summerhall, Edinburgh; Bush Theatre; Melbourne Arts Centre; Sydney Opera House); Trigger Warning (co-creator, Camden People’s Theatre); New Labour (RADA); Lionboy (adaptation for Complicité, UK and international tour, including New Victory Theater, New York). He was named Most Promising Playwright at the 2024 Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards for Backstairs Billy and received a Fringe First for Feeling Afraid.

Production photos by Henry Mills; featuring Ben Allen, Luca Kamleh-Chapman, Lewis Brown and Florence Keith-Roach in ‘P.S. Your Cat is Dead!’ (2024). Posters by Tom Joyes and Fran Ortega. Archive photos of Kirkwood courtesy of Arthur Beckenstein.

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Sun sets on summer ✨

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Summer sunsets 🌅

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The great iPhone memory chase means I’m deleting all the concept footage from when I choreographed “The Great” (@thegreathulu.)

Three years of videos of us having a riot in rehearsal has made me reflect about how beautifully dances were written into the script, rather than existing as something jolly happening in the background behind actors talking. Dance was a vital piece of the programme’s narrative, a key to characters and a way of showing the hybrid world that Tony McNamara was keen to create.

This meant I conceptualised dances with dancers, worked with dialogue and designed camera shots that told the story, before working with the final dance cast and teaching to the actors ready for filming. The great choreography/camera cross-over! This is work that many people don’t realise goes into the making of dance in TV show or films (it’s where choreographers truly are key creatives in the process) so I’m excited to show some footage of how the sausage is made.

Here’s a mix of concepts and on set rehearsals showing that choreography is movement, steps and world - and is ultimately central to storytelling.

Safe to say, I loved it and miss it. Long live “The Great.”

Dancers:
@myronavb (Also assistant)
@joshwestons
@tontoappiah
@mylesnewland
@jamesdavieswilliams
@kamildaffe
@jamesberkery
@luke.fieldwright
@tommyrosswilliams
@whatconnorsaw
@mamsurphy__
@emilyannpotter93
@daniellamaydance1
@_beckywong
@clairavaughan (Also assistant)
@missbetsyrose
@scarlettmaltman
@preetisian
@josiepocock
@kelly__chow
@sophie_obrien_xo
@serensandhamdavies
@vickileung32
@nikkitachadha

Cast members:
@florencekeithroach
@charitywakefield
@mrgwilymlee
@ellefanning
@danusiasamal
@nicholashoult
@thebelindabromilow
@phoebemercedes
@gbadamosi

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incredible actor and writer @florencekeithroach reads rachel carson for the planting of the canvas in the rain #rachelcarson #lostwoods

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amazing actress and environmentalist @charitywakefield reads Dylan Thomas for the first ceremony of planting the canvas in southwark park

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Julia Margaret Cameron got her blue plaque and we are here for it. Happy birthday Julia, we are going to do you proud. Watch this space…. 🎥 🎞️🎬

📸 @davidperryphotography

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When I’m not DJing, making comedy sketches or dressing up as various unhinged characters on Instagram, I’m occasionally upholding the family legacy…

My granny didn’t pick up a camera until she was 48 years old, yet she went on to become one of the most influential photographers in history. She ignored the rules, trusted her instincts and created images that changed photography forever.

A few fun facts about Granny

📸 She photographed Charles Darwin, and one of her portraits was later used on the back of the old £10 note.

📸 She didn’t start photography until her late 40s, proving it’s never too late to discover your thing.

📸 She photographed some of the most famous writers, artists and thinkers of the Victorian era.

As someone who also enjoys ignoring convention and making people look at the world a little differently. I find her story endlessly inspiring.

Happy birthday, Julia. Thank you for proving that creativity, courage and a willingness to do things your own way never go out of style.

Photographs by my talented sis @antoniacameron1

#JuliaMargaretCameron #PhotographyHistory #BluePlaque #FamilyHistory WomenInPhotography

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@florencekeithroach performing at @orlandothefestival 2024

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It is with unbearable sadness that we write today to make tribute to the incomparable Owain Rhys Davies, who departed from this earthly plane last week.

His loss feels catastrophic.

Owain has been a part of our 5x5 project from the start. Each show is an orchestra of 30 people, making new work, over 6 performances, and the bulk of the producing happens over a 2 week period.

Owain was intrinsic to our first show working, and working brilliantly. He helped us manage rehearsal, he helped us run the tech, ran the music on show, he COMPERED the show, he helped us move the furniture for the scenes, helped the Harpist, helped the singing, the piano, helped the waiters get food out. Stayed till the last to talk about the plays. And as you know, Owain was a phenomenal actor, but showed up to help us achieve our seemingly mad dream. Afterwards, he had notes. We talked about the tricky stuff. We were high on the stuff that worked.

Show 2 at Shoreditch house, he flew home from a trip to NYC the night before and still came EARLY to help, this time Bella Danieli joining our production team. Together we managed the tech, with Emi Agbo onboarding on sound, Owain read all the scripts, memorised all the movement, helped with vocal support, people managed, together Charity and he again did all the stage management, supported Florence as she was in a play that time, had joy, had notes 😋, had love for the work, stayed for clean up.

Cut to our “launch” show just a few weeks ago. He was OUTSTANDING as an actor in Club Mangioni. He brought his full self to the extremely tough subject matter, whilst also helping out production on a million tiny things (and some MASSIVE things), winning friends. Helping people take pics after, he stayed till the end. Leaving with us at 1am, helping to clean up, talking rapidly about the next one and the next one. More notes. More thoughts. More people coming to mind to include and support via this show that is growing.

To Owain.

We cannot bear the thought of never seeing and hugging you again, or doing our show without you. But you would you want us to. And of course, you sent us your notes 📝

We love you Owain, we will do you proud ❤️

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Harper’s Bazaar and Edeline Lee hosted an intimate evening to celebrate Edeline Lee’s 15th Anniversary and Lydia Slater’s birthday in London last Wednesday.

Guests gathered at Aki London and Kiyori Bar for an evening of D1 London Spirits and Seedlip cocktails, canapés and dancing.

@edelinelee @lydiasmag @bazaaruk @akilondon @kiyoribar @d1londonspirits @seedlipdrinks @iamrockstar.agency @djsunisideup @gempreciousdj

📷 @natmartinezphotography Images 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19
📷 @tobyshawphoto Images 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 20

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