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Hidden Track
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Multi-award-winning interactive theatre company. Live shows and online games available now at https://hiddentrack.org.uk
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Hidden Track @hiddentrack.org.uk · Nov 20
Our multi-award winning interactive theatre show Standard:Elite is available to watch online for free!

This show explores class and social mobility by splitting its audience into 'Standard' and 'Elite' members based on the role of a dice.

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#TheatreSky #theatre
Standard:Elite Promo
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Hidden Track @hiddentrack.org.uk · 4d
Utterly heartbreaking that this is what we've come to, but Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group have written a statement to respond directly to the concerns and questions they’ve heard from local communities. @gmiau.bsky.social

Please read, please share.
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Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) @gmiau.bsky.social · 10d
Recently, we have seen an increase in protests and demonstrations outside asylum hotels, driven by misinformation and fear.

Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group have written a statement to respond directly to the concerns and questions they’ve heard from local communities.
Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group: Our response to the protests outside hotels - GMIAU
Statement from a group in Manchester who have lived experience of living in asylum accommodation responding to the racist far-right protests
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Hidden Track @hiddentrack.org.uk · Aug 4
Our first pick of the Fringe!

Afreena is an incredibly charismatic performer, a brilliant writer, and - most importantly - this is a proper no messing about quiz.

Fun, touching, human, and a show that can be enjoyed by real people and not just theatre people, absolutely fantastic.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ From us!
traversetheatre.bsky.social Traverse Theatre @traversetheatre.bsky.social · Jul 6
Lucky Tonight! is an interactive pub quiz/theatre show by Afreena Islam-Wright.  Quizmaster (and former contestant of The Chase!) Afreena will put you through your paces to help her tell her story.

🗓️ 31 July - 24 Aug
Tickets on sale now
www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/eve...

#TravFest25
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jul 10
Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people.
You could call it wink murder.
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How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot
Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guasrdian columnist George Monbiot
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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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Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social · Jul 5
I'm speaking at Resistance in Game Space on Sat 26th July in Edinburgh!

It's a *free* event by @rachelhamada.bsky.social featuring an exhibition, a workshop about unionising in video games, and a discussion about the gamification of society, and a curated film screening. Come along!
Resistance in Game Space
Level up! Come down to this multimedia day to explore the ways people are subverting rules, hierarchies and norms in and around video games
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Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk · Jun 24
UK playful pals & mutuals- we've been given a bit more capacity for our boutique Car Boot Casino night at Develop on Tues 8 July

If you enjoy homebrew card & bluffing games, poker visors, janky prizes then ticket details are below:

www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-zz...
Code: DOGPLAYINGPOKER
event poster, painting of a woman holding a dog with a poker visor and cards. text reads: Car Boot Casino: a night of homebrew card, bluffing and betting games. Tuesday 8 July 2025, 7pm - late, Brighton £7.99
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brendle @brendle.bsky.social · Jun 18
this is the real use case for AI: creating a centralized source of "truth" that can be altered at the whim of its fascist owners. technology cannot be disconnected from its financial backing & political consequences. pretending it "could be useful" in a vacuum is a fantasy. bsky.app/profile/pale...
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jun 18
Uh oh. He’s just going to have to shut this thing off.
Elon Musk • X ** @elonmusk • 5m Major fail, as this is objectively false. Grok is parroting legacy media. 9... Working on it. 1788 0 652 1ll 5.8KW L crunch127 (whashywash) @@crun...4m S.. @grok do you agree with what Elon Musk just said 0 5 Ill 834 W L @grok I don't fully agree with Elon Musk's claim that my analysis was "objectively false" or "parroting legacy media." Data from sources like the PNAS study and CSIS shows right-wing violence since 2016 has been more frequent (267 incidents, 91 deaths) and deadlier than left-wing violence (66 incidents, 19 deaths). Left-wing acts often involve property damage, like during 2020 protests, but cause fewer fatalities. Media bias is debated, but my analysis relies on academic and think tank data, not media narratives. Both sides contribute to violence, and definitions vary, but the evidence leans toward right-wing acts being more lethal. 8:43 PM • 6/17/25 • 97 Views
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Hidden Track @hiddentrack.org.uk · May 16
Giving this a lil refresh - are you an/do you know any artist/companies hanging around in the interactive-y, immersive-y, gaming-y, audience pressing buttons and shouting and throwing stuff bit of theatre?

Let us know, and we'll get them on the list!

#Interactive #Immersive #Gaming #Theatre
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Alistair Aitcheson @agaitcheson.bsky.social · May 16
Just went to a workshop on creating interactive theatre and it made me realise how unusual my perspective is as someone who's come into theatre from video game design.

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Hidden Track @hiddentrack.org.uk · May 16
Absolutely!
Haven't updated this list in a little while, so let's give it a wee revamp...
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Hidden Track @hiddentrack.org.uk · Apr 16
Just had the privilege of being in a room of wonderful people, with a phenomenal piece of #interactivetheatre, and the most compelling thing a room full of wonderful people can possibly be given:

A MYSTERY BOX.

Fantastic as always @ontroerendgoed.bsky.social

ontroerendgoed.be/en/projecten...
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · Apr 11
The Greens have eviscerated Labour in a council by-election in Haringey. This is David Lammy's constituency.💚🌳
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Theatres Trust @theatrestrust.bsky.social · Apr 8
Attention small theatres - still time to apply for this fantastic opportunity to have your seats refurbished by prestigious Race Furniture

Deadline: Monday 28 April

www.theatrestrust.org.uk/ssa
theatrestrust.bsky.social Theatres Trust @theatrestrust.bsky.social · Feb 27
📢 We are partnering with Race Furniture on an exciting new award as part of its 80th anniversary celebrations

🪑 Seating's Second Act gives one small theatre the chance have a full auditorium seating refurbishment

Please share with any small theatre
www.theatrestrust.org.uk/latest/news/...
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Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social · Apr 8
Very nice review of our show, touring now:
www.westendbestfriend.co.uk/news/review-...
Review: MICHAEL ROSEN: GETTING THROUGH IT, Cambridge Corn Exchange | West End Best Friend
Michael Rosen is currently touring with ‘Getting Through It’, a powerful one-person show exploring grief and mortality.
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The Stage @thestage.co.uk · Apr 7
Thinking differently and beyond ACE investment is urgent and needs to be done now, writes @lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social 👇
Lyn Gardner: Time for the arts to look beyond ACE funding?
Thinking outside the box can help theatre companies find funding routes independent of pinched Arts Council England, says Lyn Gardner
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Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · Mar 18
Remarkable clip.

The OBR apparently has a new role - a tool for ministers to outsource the negative impacts of government policy.
implausibleblog.bsky.social Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Mar 18
Liz Kendall refuses to tell ITV News's Anushka Asthana how many people will be affected by the changes to benefits Labour announced today

Either Kendall knows but won't say because it's really bad, or she doesn't know so can't say

This kind of flippancy ought to be career ending
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Sheffield Theatres @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social · Mar 18
Hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure, the sold out production of TOXIC, the powerful and passionate play by Nathaniel J Hall and Dibby Theatre Productions, hits the playhouse this week!

🎭 Thu 20 – Fri 21 Mar

🎟️https://bit.ly/4iSs7x9
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Word of Warning (hÅb) @warnmcr.bsky.social · Mar 14
⚠️ WEEKLY WARNING

🔍 discover new #performance to watch in #Manchester and beyond…

📰 read our latest #signpost to the bizarre, beautiful, and best upcoming shows and events…
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In a week that saw the pruning of benefits and the severing of the limbs of quangos, the only Spring growth might be in austerity... This weekend Verve's Triple Bill is at the New Adelphi...
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Royal Exchange Theatre @rxtheatre.bsky.social · Mar 13
🎟️ Two new productions have just gone on sale for 2025 🎟️

Liberation with Factory International for #MIF25 27 JUN - 26 JUL
Dancing at Lughnasa with @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social 11 OCT - 8 NOV

Get 10% off total ticket price when you get tickets at the same time! 👉️ rxtheat.re/GSale25Fb
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Mar 12
Just 1% of the UK population has wealth of £2.8 trillion, compared to £2.4 trillion held by 70% of the population combined.

The richest FOUR Britons have more wealth than 20m people combined.

Rich have hijacked govts.

Must tax the rich to improve life chances of the rest.
Here’s how Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement must offer hope
'The government needs to recalibrate policies'
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Mar 11
Keir Starmer has declared war on disabled people.

Labour are planning to be even crueller than the Tories.

Is this why people join Labour - to kick vulnerable people?

New post 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/labour-dec...
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · Mar 11
Choosing to take money from disabled benefit claimants rather than levy a wealth tax is simply immoral 👇
Labour mollifies the rich, targets disabled people and claims moral justification. There isn’t any | Frances Ryan
Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · Mar 10
The Government is planning to unveil more than £6 billion of welfare cuts that will see even people with extreme disabilities lose money.

None of this is necessary. Billions could be raised by taxing the super-rich fairly.

Labour are choosing to punish the most vulnerable.
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Rand0lf-Rand0lf.bsky.social @rand0lf-rand0lf.bsky.social · Mar 10
www.politicshome.com/news/article... The findings come as the Labour government prepares to cut welfare payments in the upcoming spring statement so that Chancellor Rachel Reeves can stick to her fiscal rules.
Achieves nothing and people will die to satisfy her ego. Knowingly cruel. Try caring FFS.
Over Three Quarters Of Universal Credit Recipients Go Without Essentials
Over three quarters of benefits recipients have gone without essentials in the last six months, according to polling shared exclusively with Politi...
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