Today's DP Blog shines a spotlight on the Noël Coward play, "Hay Fever"
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Hey, some fun news! Sir Ian McKellen is headlining an all #trans and #nonbinary reading of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. It’s a delightful play with much playing with #gender and the understanding of it. I’m very excited and am buying livestream tickets. 🥰
#theatre #arts #plays #Shakespeare #yay #GoodNews
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Did Shakespeare Write Hamlet While He Was Stoned?
"Sam Kelly Explores the Potential Influence of Cannabis on the Bard’s Prolific Literary Output"
https://lithub.com/did-shakespeare-write-hamlet-while-he-was-stoned/
Shakespeare at PG
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#OTD in 1856 playwright George Bernard Shaw was born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw
George Bernard Shaw books at PG
“The general assumption in the past has tended to be that an overview of Scottish drama would not take very long. Between Sir David Lyndsay & James Bridie, what was there of any lasting importance?”
Edwin Morgan, “Scottish Drama: an overview” (1999)
Today, 27 March, is World Theatre Day
1/7
https://asls.org.uk/scottish-drama-an-overview/
#Scottish #literature #drama #theatre #theater #plays #WorldTheatreDay #theatrehistory
Glasgow Theatre Seminar: Queer Plays Volume One – An Anthology of Scottish LGBTQ+ Drama
6 October, University of Glasgow & online: free
𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘝𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘦 𝘖𝘯𝘦 – 𝘈𝘯 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘓𝘎𝘉𝘛𝘘+ 𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘢 spans 50 years of queer theatre in Scotland. Celebrate the book’s launch & hear from its contributors about the history, present & futures of LGBTQ+ drama in Scotland
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://www.gla.ac.uk/events/listings/index.html/event/14845
#Scottish #literature #theatre #drama #plays #queer #queerliterature #LGBTQ #LGBTQdrama
