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Caroline Bird @carolinebirduk.bsky.social · 1d

Are you free on the evening of December 16th? 🎄 Join me for this masterclass all about finding multiple (infinite?) ways in to the same subject matter. We’ll write a ridiculous amount of poems in 2 hours…with brand new exercises ⁦‪‬⁩
www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Masterclass: Infinite Ways in to Writing Poems | Tackling big subjects with wonder | Arvon

For the third year running, with all new prompts and exercises, Arvon favourite Caroline Bird returns for our final Masterclass of the year, which promises to be a bolt of creativity to kick-start som...

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Caroline Bird @carolinebirduk.bsky.social · 10d

Haha this was not the demographic I was expecting. I did terribly on my physics GSCE. I love the idea of forklift truck drivers reading my poetry, I hope that’s true.

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Caroline Bird @carolinebirduk.bsky.social · 10d

Boom! Omg was it really five years ago? Wow. Your absolute love and talent for poetry was so clear from the beginning. Chanel’s loss was poetry’s gain. x

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Dr Rosie Miles @rosiemilespoet.bsky.social · 14d

Final night of “The Last Stand of Mary Whitehouse” by @carolinebirduk.bsky.social . I doubt there’s any tickets left but it’s a fantastic play. Maxine Peake and Samuel Barnett are superb. Let’s hope there will be another run.

Nottingham Playhouse @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social · 22d

⏰ JUST 1 WEEK LEFT! The acclaimed The Last Stand of Mrs. Mary Whitehouse ends 27 Sept.

Tue 23 Sept: Special post-show talk "Gay History of the 70s & 80s" exploring LGBTQ+ life during the Whitehouse/Thatcher era.

Final chance - book now!
bit.ly/NPMaryWhitehouse

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Caroline Bird @carolinebirduk.bsky.social · 14d

Ah thank you Rosie, so happy you enjoyed it!

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Caroline Bird @carolinebirduk.bsky.social · 27d

Ah thank you Gillian, I’m so glad you enjoyed it - Maxine and Sam are incredible

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Nick Hern Books @nickhernbooks.bsky.social · 28d

'Incredibly powerful'
★★★★★ WhatsOnStage

'Witty and timely'
★★★★ Guardian

The Last Stand of Mrs. Mary Whitehouse by NHB author Caroline Bird is now on @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social.

Get your playscript copy at the venue or online: www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/the-last-sta...

Top photo: Maxine Peake in The Last Stand of Mrs. Mary Whitehouse at Nottingham Playhouse. Photo by Helen Murray. Bottom photo: Playscript cover of The Last Stand of Mrs. Mary Whitehouse by Caroline Bird.

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Tessa Foley @tessafoley.bsky.social · Sep 10

If there are ANY tickets left for this, I advise you to snap em up.

Standing ovation on the first night.

It’s feckin brilliant.

Caroline Bird’s THE LAST STAND OF MRS MARY WHITEHOUSE

nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/events/the-l...

Starring Maxine Peake and Samuel Barnett.

Mind blowing.

Maxine Peake playing Mrs Mary Whitehouse

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Nottingham Playhouse @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social · Sep 10

👓 Take a first look at The Last Stand of Mrs. Mary Whitehouse, with our fabulous production photos.

💐 Sending love and best wishes to our wonderful cast, creatives and crew for press night tonight.

📷 Helen Murray

Writer @Carolinebirduk.bsky.social

A woman, wearing a blue quilted coat and pink rollneck with dark glasses, stands between two theatre curtains, holding them open. She has a frown on her face and is looking off to the left.

A garden shed against a blue backdrop on a stage. Standing in front of it a woman wearing a blue cardigan, pink rollneck and patterned skirt. She is pointing one finger up and looking upwards with a smile on her face.

A man wearing a silk gown and hair wrap, and a woman wearing a long navy coat and matching hat sit, opposite one another at a wooden dining table. They are staring intently at each other, with the man reaching out one arm across the table in an attempt to reach the woman’s hand.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 4

‘The one thing it doesn’t have is actual sex’: the new Mary Whitehouse play that would have infuriated Mary Whitehouse

She was the morality crusader who became a figure of ridicule. Now Whitehouse is the subject of a new production starring Maxine Peake. We meet the gay feminist playwright who wrote it

www.theguardian.com

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Nottingham Playhouse @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social · Aug 14

Straight from rehearsals, brand-new photos of world premiere The Last Stand of Mrs. Mary Whitehouse.

Starring Maxine Peake & Samuel Barnett, @carolinebirduk.bsky.social’s wickedly funny new play about a highly controversial figure.

bit.ly/NPMaryWhiteh...

📆 Fri 5 – Sat 27 Sep
📷 @helenmurraypix

A woman with blond hair in a ponytail, glasses and wearing a pink t-shirt sits on a 1970s floral garden chair. She holds a folder in her lap, raises her left hand to her chin and looks off, a distant look on her face.

A man and woman, both wearing pale pink t-shirts, sit opposite each other on wooden chairs, holding hands. They both look out. In front of them, a woman in a blue shirt sits in a chair, leaning toward them.

A man in a pink t-shirt and glasses crouches sits sideways on the floor. He is frowning and looks off camera, concerned.

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · Jul 23

Amtssprache

So what would you pay to have your family safe
In that house with the garden and the clean running water -
And you walk in and hold them and kiss their faces?
Your life? Too easy, and nobody’s asking.

How about the life of an Afghan child,
A city, the birds in the sky?
Would you turn a blind eye? Would you turn off the news?
Would you run the trains to death camps?

Of course you would. You do.
You do these things.

(Poem by Clare Pollard)

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WestEndTheatre.com @westendtheatre.com · Jun 18

Samuel Barnett to join Maxine Peake in The Last Stand of Mrs Mary Whitehouse

Read more: www.westendtheatre.com/297883/news/...

#MaxinePeake to star as Mary Whitehouse, with #SamuelBarnett playing 15 other roles

By Caroline Bird, directed by Sarah Frankcom

#NottinghamPlayhouse from 5 – 27 Sept

Samuel Barnett to join Maxine Peake in The Last Stand of Mrs Mary Whitehouse | West End Theatre

Final casting has been announced for The Last Stand of Mrs. Mary Whitehouse at Nottingham Playhouse.

www.westendtheatre.com

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Em Taylor @emwrote.bsky.social · Jun 3

Final 20 tickets for our 11 June @queer-poetry-co.bsky.social evening with @carolinebirduk.bsky.social Richard Scott, Sophie Robinson and Roberto Salvador Cenciarelli x

It’s going to be an amazing night that I personally can’t wait for ❤️
www.outsavvy.com/event/27015/...

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Em Taylor @emwrote.bsky.social · Apr 27

Beyond hyped for this one, the first in our summer event series! Join us for an incredible pride poetry night with @carolinebirduk.bsky.social, Richard Scott, Sophie Robinson and Roberto Salvador Cenciarelli ❤️

www.outsavvy.com/event/27015/...

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Caroline Bird @carolinebirduk.bsky.social · Apr 22

So, I’ve written a new play about Mary Whitehouse, The Gay News Blasphemy Trial and homophobia in the 70s and 80s. Also, Maxine Peake is in it… 🤯

Nottingham Playhouse @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social · Apr 22

📣New Shows for 25/26!

Autum begins with the world premiere of The Last Stand of Mrs. Mary Whitehouse, starring Maxine Peake.

This wickedly funny play explores the enigma of Mary Whitehouse: pearl-clutching prude or ‘ most dangerous woman in Britain’?

🗓5 – 27 Sep 25
🎟 bit.ly/NPMaryWhitehouse