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Vinay Patel

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

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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · Sep 9

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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Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · Aug 4

"I'm flying!"

Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · Aug 3

Nope it’s that one!

Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · Aug 3

The dog fielded at deep fine leg

Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · Aug 3

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

Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · Jul 25

And if you’ve not seen the film you don’t naturally assume someone is singing the words “Thunder Dome” even if I’m unsure about what I actually heard

Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · Jul 25

Ian I don’t know why. I think because I’ve never really seen the film?!

Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · Jul 25

Oh me too. To not do it is cowardice to my mind

Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · Jul 25

I don’t even know! Mad

Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · Jul 25

I know! Just a banging song played in the back of my dad’s car until JUST NOW

Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · Jul 25

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

Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · Jul 24

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Anna Jordan @annaruthjordan.bsky.social · Jul 10

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.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · Jul 16

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.

Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · Jul 17

Should’ve saved the exclamation marks for those mad, mad pens

Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · Jul 17

FOOTBALL!!!

Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · Jul 17

(And 2023 for that matter - although maybe that was a bit of a harbinger now I think about the final again)

Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · Jul 17

I don’t follow as closely as you do but I was surprised by how few useful attacking passes were made in that half. I think I have a real false memory of what I saw in 2022

Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · May 26

Solid mid-tier Wes. Kate’s kid is good fun

Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · May 25

I actually wound up watching Asteroid City but yes that or Budapest probably splits the difference…

Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · May 25

Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · May 25

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

Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · May 15

Yep and of course Cassian feels so much more weighty, a heaviness there instead of a cipher

Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · May 15

They weren’t wrong - if really feels different after it

Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social · May 14

Gosh, I'm jealous of that! And yeah, I don't know how it will scan now but I think it's strange enough to allow it to be more metaphorical than its direct context (or so I hope anyway)