James Wallace
@jameswallace.bsky.social
Sublunary microcosm
Sometime actor, director & researcher, now full-time carer
Rose Playhouse Trustee
You can unfollow me on Twitter @jamesthewallace
Sometime actor, director & researcher, now full-time carer
Rose Playhouse Trustee
You can unfollow me on Twitter @jamesthewallace
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Manta Trust patron David Oakes is at CITES CoP20 explaining why CITES is vital and why manta & devil rays need the highest protection under Appendix I.
🔗 Visit our website to learn more about manta and devil rays, and the threats they face: www.mantatrust.org
🔗 Visit our website to learn more about manta and devil rays, and the threats they face: www.mantatrust.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Manta Trust patron David Oakes is at CITES CoP20 explaining why CITES is vital and why manta & devil rays need the highest protection under Appendix I.
🔗 Visit our website to learn more about manta and devil rays, and the threats they face: www.mantatrust.org
🔗 Visit our website to learn more about manta and devil rays, and the threats they face: www.mantatrust.org
From a coup to the coop
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
From a coup to the coop
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This work contains the only known bookplate illustrated by artist & author Mervyn Peake. Designed for a surgeon who operated on his family, in lieu of fees. It depicts the 3 little bones of the middle ear
#books #antiquarian #medicine #bookplate #histmed bit.ly/4pSUgbo
#books #antiquarian #medicine #bookplate #histmed bit.ly/4pSUgbo
October 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
This work contains the only known bookplate illustrated by artist & author Mervyn Peake. Designed for a surgeon who operated on his family, in lieu of fees. It depicts the 3 little bones of the middle ear
#books #antiquarian #medicine #bookplate #histmed bit.ly/4pSUgbo
#books #antiquarian #medicine #bookplate #histmed bit.ly/4pSUgbo
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In Bradford for Widescreen Weekend and staying at the grand but somewhat faded Midland Hotel where, I am perversely delighted to discover, in 1905 Sir Henry Irving breathed his last on this staircase. His manager, Bram Stoker, was in attendance.
September 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
In Bradford for Widescreen Weekend and staying at the grand but somewhat faded Midland Hotel where, I am perversely delighted to discover, in 1905 Sir Henry Irving breathed his last on this staircase. His manager, Bram Stoker, was in attendance.
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“BritCard?”
September 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“BritCard?”
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'And that underlying rhythm probably sounds quite familiar: it’s like a heartbeat. Shakespeare loved iambic pentameter because it sounds very close to natural, heart-felt speech': argh, this kind of thing (from Shakespeare's Globe website) drives me mad: someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/10-reasons...
10 Reasons Why the Iambic Pentameter is Not Like the Human Heartbeat
On an idea about poetry that needs to die
someflowerssoon.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
'And that underlying rhythm probably sounds quite familiar: it’s like a heartbeat. Shakespeare loved iambic pentameter because it sounds very close to natural, heart-felt speech': argh, this kind of thing (from Shakespeare's Globe website) drives me mad: someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/10-reasons...
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Linked to yesterday's OTD post, this is terrific - thanks @jameswallace.bsky.social
Have you seen this?
Cantu (the first magician to make doves appear, apparently) eight years earlier, doing part of his act in Politiquerías, the Spanish version of Laurel and Hardy’s Chickens Come Home (1931).
m.youtube.com/watch?v=qIOD...
Cantu (the first magician to make doves appear, apparently) eight years earlier, doing part of his act in Politiquerías, the Spanish version of Laurel and Hardy’s Chickens Come Home (1931).
m.youtube.com/watch?v=qIOD...
Cantu Magician -Politiquerias- Laurel and Hardy 1931
YouTube video by Christian de MIEGEVILLE
m.youtube.com
August 9, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Linked to yesterday's OTD post, this is terrific - thanks @jameswallace.bsky.social
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I've found a jester! I HAVE FOUND A JESTER 🥸
July 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I've found a jester! I HAVE FOUND A JESTER 🥸
David Lynch’s personal theramin, recently sold at auction for $10,400
June 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
David Lynch’s personal theramin, recently sold at auction for $10,400
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I have just noticed that the clips holding the glass on this London Transport bus look like Homer Simpson
June 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I have just noticed that the clips holding the glass on this London Transport bus look like Homer Simpson
Wow
HERE. SHE. IS.
Our 'stunning', 'jaw-dropping' & 'game-changing' new venue, Soho Theatre Walthamstow
(thanks @walthamforestecho.bsky.social TimeOut & @whatsonstage.bsky.social 💋)
📷️ David Levene
Our 'stunning', 'jaw-dropping' & 'game-changing' new venue, Soho Theatre Walthamstow
(thanks @walthamforestecho.bsky.social TimeOut & @whatsonstage.bsky.social 💋)
📷️ David Levene
May 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Wow
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Brilliant
April 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Brilliant
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OTD in early British television:
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin was born 136 years ago today. To mark his 50th birthday on Sunday 16 April 1939, Alexandra Palace screened an afternoon programme of extracts from his early comedies.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin was born 136 years ago today. To mark his 50th birthday on Sunday 16 April 1939, Alexandra Palace screened an afternoon programme of extracts from his early comedies.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
OTD in early British television: 16 April 1939 - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin was born 136 years ago today. To mark his 50th birthday on Sunday 16 April 1939, when Charlie was working on the script for The Great Dictator (1940), Al...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
April 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
OTD in early British television:
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin was born 136 years ago today. To mark his 50th birthday on Sunday 16 April 1939, Alexandra Palace screened an afternoon programme of extracts from his early comedies.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin was born 136 years ago today. To mark his 50th birthday on Sunday 16 April 1939, Alexandra Palace screened an afternoon programme of extracts from his early comedies.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
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GCSE and A Level students and teachers working on Shakespeare - please join us on Thursday! Completely free, all very welcome. I’ll be there with actor @jameswallace.bsky.social to answer your questions 📚🎭 - sign up here👇
🚨FREE online school events! 🚨
Sign up to our webinars this Thursday, 20 March
🎭 Explore Shakespeare’s characters in a new light
🤖Discuss ways of engaging with AI in education
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@kcraik1.bsky.social @hamiltonbrookes.bsky.social
Sign up to our webinars this Thursday, 20 March
🎭 Explore Shakespeare’s characters in a new light
🤖Discuss ways of engaging with AI in education
Sign up below👇👇
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@kcraik1.bsky.social @hamiltonbrookes.bsky.social
Think Human Events for Schools 20-21 March 2025
A Think Human Festival 2025 Programme of free events for School Students aged 16+
www.eventbrite.com
March 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
GCSE and A Level students and teachers working on Shakespeare - please join us on Thursday! Completely free, all very welcome. I’ll be there with actor @jameswallace.bsky.social to answer your questions 📚🎭 - sign up here👇
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Brazilian author Marcelo Rubens Paiva has been dismayed at the outpouring of hatred directed at him since his book "I'm Still Here" became a movie, now competing for the Best Picture Oscar. But says he feels his mission has been achieved.
📝@msavarese.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/braz...
📝@msavarese.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/braz...
Author behind Oscar-nominated film finds praise and ire for his rebuke of Brazil's dictatorship
Marcelo Rubens Paiva, a popular author in Brazil for four decades, has had intense days and exchanges since the movie based on his 2015 book “I’m Still Here” became a box-office success.
apnews.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Brazilian author Marcelo Rubens Paiva has been dismayed at the outpouring of hatred directed at him since his book "I'm Still Here" became a movie, now competing for the Best Picture Oscar. But says he feels his mission has been achieved.
📝@msavarese.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/braz...
📝@msavarese.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/braz...
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Why I’m Still Here should win the best picture Oscar (by me) 👇👇🇧🇷
Why I’m Still Here should win the best picture Oscar
Walter Salles’s true-story drama reflects on a dark chapter from Brazil’s authoritarian past that has a chilling resonance for the world we live in today
www.theguardian.com
February 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Why I’m Still Here should win the best picture Oscar (by me) 👇👇🇧🇷
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OTD in early British television:
A short thread and post to mark the 93rd anniversary of the earliest Shakespeare performance on British television that I can identify.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
A short thread and post to mark the 93rd anniversary of the earliest Shakespeare performance on British television that I can identify.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
OTD in early British television: 25 February 1932 - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Today is the 93rd anniversary of the earliest Shakespeare performance on British television that I can identify. In the morning of Thursday 25 February 1932, producer Harold Bradly ...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
February 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
OTD in early British television:
A short thread and post to mark the 93rd anniversary of the earliest Shakespeare performance on British television that I can identify.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
A short thread and post to mark the 93rd anniversary of the earliest Shakespeare performance on British television that I can identify.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
Happy Birthday Rupert Holmes!
#BOTD 24 Feb 1947
Here he is singing his pineapple, cream of coconut ‘n rum themed classic ‘Escape’, oozing the kind of raw sexual charisma they just don’t allow anymore.
No better way to brighten up your Monday. See you in O’Malley’s…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGAe...
#BOTD 24 Feb 1947
Here he is singing his pineapple, cream of coconut ‘n rum themed classic ‘Escape’, oozing the kind of raw sexual charisma they just don’t allow anymore.
No better way to brighten up your Monday. See you in O’Malley’s…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGAe...
RUPERT HOLMES - Escape (The Pina Colada Song) (1980)
YouTube video by ClassicVideos80s
www.youtube.com
February 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Happy Birthday Rupert Holmes!
#BOTD 24 Feb 1947
Here he is singing his pineapple, cream of coconut ‘n rum themed classic ‘Escape’, oozing the kind of raw sexual charisma they just don’t allow anymore.
No better way to brighten up your Monday. See you in O’Malley’s…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGAe...
#BOTD 24 Feb 1947
Here he is singing his pineapple, cream of coconut ‘n rum themed classic ‘Escape’, oozing the kind of raw sexual charisma they just don’t allow anymore.
No better way to brighten up your Monday. See you in O’Malley’s…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGAe...
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OTD in early British television:
Today’s post is a melancholy little tale of a short, vibrant life in which early television played just a small part. The subject is dancer and acrobat Laurie Devine...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
Today’s post is a melancholy little tale of a short, vibrant life in which early television played just a small part. The subject is dancer and acrobat Laurie Devine...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
OTD in early British television: 22 February 1933 - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Today’s post is a melancholy little tale of a short, vibrant life in which early television played just a small part. The subject is dancer and acrobat Laurie Devine (above, right),...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
February 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
OTD in early British television:
Today’s post is a melancholy little tale of a short, vibrant life in which early television played just a small part. The subject is dancer and acrobat Laurie Devine...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
Today’s post is a melancholy little tale of a short, vibrant life in which early television played just a small part. The subject is dancer and acrobat Laurie Devine...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
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Lovely write-up about Grand Theft Hamlet in The New Yorker magazine:
www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
The Player’s the Thing in “Grand Theft Hamlet”
A film about a performance of “Hamlet” within the world of Grand Theft Auto suggests that the moral environment of revenge tragedy is not far from that of video games.
www.newyorker.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Lovely write-up about Grand Theft Hamlet in The New Yorker magazine:
www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
Such a wonderful and brilliantly written tribute to Claire van Kampen from the Globe’s former artistic director Dominic Dromgoole
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...
Claire van Kampen: a world-class theatre composer and bright star of Shakespeare’s Globe
The pianist, director and playwright of Farinelli and the King, which starred her husband Mark Rylance, is remembered by the Globe’s former artistic director
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Such a wonderful and brilliantly written tribute to Claire van Kampen from the Globe’s former artistic director Dominic Dromgoole
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...