I saw a lovely show about #tea in the #BrightonFestival today. I think that it was by a company called target. It linked the mundane nature of a cuppa with its political history, but also with its cross cultural universality. It was a celebration of the humdrum magnificence of ordinary lifes. I can't do it justice. It sort of said, 'yes, this is real. Your love, your everyday. This is what matters. And more, focus on the tiny, moments of freedom and humanity. They will redeem us and liberate us from the nightmare from which we are trying to awake'

A friend and I spent some time at Groundswell as part of #BrightonFestival earlier today. What a joyful experience

Been to my first #BrightonFestival event of the season today. It was “The sleeping Tree”. It was immersive and relaxing. I could have spent many hours there absorbed in the sounds

“May is a celebration of a month, where everything has on its party clothes”
from https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61127863

Especially true in #Brighton where we not only do we have nature showing off in all the city parks, we also have #BrightonFestival kicking off next weekend.

I love May in this glorious city

‘Explicitly queer and trans’: the 1580s play that inspired Shakespeare’s cross-dressing love plots - John Lyly’s long-forgotten Galatea – featuring gods, mortals and a highly elastic approach to gender and sex – is being revived at the Brighton festival. We meet the team behind it.

Wickedly funny, astonishingly queer and over 430 years old, John Lyly’s dramatic comedy Galatea upends gender binaries and sheds power structures like they’re merely a change of clothes. Written in the 1580s, the play “gets deep into the DNA of Shakespeare and his contemporaries”, says theatre historian Andy Kesson, but has been largely forgotten.

This spring, as part of Brighton festival, live artist Emma Frankland is leading a daring outdoor, large-scale production of Galatea that blends academic exploration with queer contemporary performance. Adapted by Frankland and spoken-word artist Subira Joy, and edited by Kesson, this is a collaborative celebration of an under-appreciated play and a reckoning with the way early modern texts are treated – too delicately and exclusively, the team argue. Plus, Frankland says with a cool smile: “We’re going to set shit on fire.”

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/apr/12/galatea-john-lyly-queer-trans-shakespeares-cross-dressing-brighton-festival

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‘Explicitly #queer and #trans’: the 1580s play that inspired #Shakespeare’s cross-dressing love plots - https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/apr/12/galatea-john-lyly-queer-trans-shakespeares-cross-dressing-brighton-festival
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