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Yale Drama shortlist (2024); Verity Bargate longlist (2022, 2017, 2013); Bruntwood longlist (2013); Papatango longlist (2022, 2017) rep: Steinberg Assoc https://duncan-gates.com/

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duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 17h

'why are you reading this when you could be out there, hermaphroditing?'

duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 2d

get Sean Dyche in for Duke of York, steady the ship

duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 2d

This is a gem

Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 3d

From eating on stage to compulsory standing ovations to invisible animals… Exeunt writers on their pettiest theatre gripes

Exeunt’s (Mostly) Irrational Theatre Dislikes

A piece from the archive...

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duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 3d

'hola, soy Arathorninho'

duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 4d

Lol did a dog write th/ oh okay

duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 4d

Crouch End is ready 😺🎃

duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 5d

The dog is also a safe

duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 5d

be even weirder if you got the one computer that wears panties

duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 6d

duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 7d

you can't exactly corner the market in 'ghost stories centring around superior, emotionally-stunted men in wildernesses', but goddammit Michelle Paver will try

duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 10d

At an away-day recently and the venue had these cursed post-it notes

duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 11d

Mary Shelley would be figuratively, literally and ironically spinning in her grave

duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 11d

'2 polts please, semi-scared'

duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 13d

it wouldn't have been nearly as popular if they'd called it 'the electrical chair'

duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 13d

the music for SuperTed had no business going as hard as it did

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Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social · 14d

I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror

A bingo card for the ghost stories of M.R. James. Boxes read:
"Spiders
Terrible hotel stay
Narrator makes fun of golf
Latin passages
Eerie disembodied voices
Confirmed bachelor main character
Vengeful spirit
Evil magician
Working-class character as comic relief
Bleak East Anglian coast
Visit to an archive
Narrator in guidebook mode
FREE SPACE
Unholy doings in a church
Frogs or toads
Queen Anne style house
Cursed artifact
Don't buy that rare book!
Something hairy and horrible
Someone gets too curious
Tentacles
Story told via old manuscript
Research trip gone horribly wrong
Beds are scary
Tactile horror

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duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 14d

some old-ass birds (established via their rings):

- 12yo House Sparrow
- 43yo Oystercatcher
- A Laysan Albatross who is at least 74 and incredibly still breeding

duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 14d

Tropical birds species live longer on average than temperate ones, and no one's really sure why

duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 14d

Seabirds live longer (possibly because fewer predators), e.g. feral/wood pigeons get to 3 years, whilst puffins are the same size and manage 18

duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 14d

corking little article in this month's @rspb.bsky.social magazine on the average ages of birds, some highlights:

duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 14d

This week on The Listening Inch, 'Hole' a throwback to 2014 based on a time i went caving at high school #horror #podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Hole

Podcast Episode · The Listening Inch · 10/04/2025 · 13m

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duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 15d

'vampire probate' looks a bit like 'vampire prostate', which ironically is what you get from not consuming enough anne rice

or too much, can't remember bowels

duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 15d

'Vampire Lestat' sounds like the French for 'Vampire estate', which is either about vampire probate, or a vampire car with a big boot

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Lily Einhorn @madewithstring.bsky.social · 15d

If you want to know what actual racism looks like, what conflating a whole ethnicity and culture with the actions of a foreign government look like, then look no further than Starmer using the horrific event in Manchester to attack the pro-Palestine marches. The absolute shame.

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duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 16d