Andrzej Łukowski
@mrlukowski.bsky.social
Polish Brummie, Time Out London theatre editor and kids person
I feel like this wasn’t actually very secret
BREAKING Kemi Badenoch has sacked Robert Jenrick from the shadow cabinet, removed the whip and suspended his party membership.
She says she was "presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect" to Reform
She says she was "presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect" to Reform
January 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
I feel like this wasn’t actually very secret
I went to the new Punchdrunk show and I’m not allowed to review it but here are some things I can tell you about it anyway www.timeout.com/london/news/...
I went to the new Punchdrunk show and I’m not allowed to review it but here are some things I can tell you about it anyway
Here’s what to expect from ‘Lander 23’, the immersive theatre legends’ new ‘stealth exploration game’
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January 14, 2026 at 9:35 AM
I went to the new Punchdrunk show and I’m not allowed to review it but here are some things I can tell you about it anyway www.timeout.com/london/news/...
now that I myself am old, band reunions after a long hiatus look a lot more peculiar to me, like imagine just arranging to go back to your first job with your old colleagues for one shift
Life Without Buildings will reunite to perform their 2001 album Any Other City in full this November to mark fifty years since Rough Trade opened its first record store; tickets on sale from 16 January!
Life Without Buildings to reform for one-off show to celebrate Rough Trade's 50th anniversary
Glasgow art-rock band Life Without Buildings reunite to perform their 2001 album Any Other City in full to mark fifty years since Rough Trade opened its first record store.
buff.ly
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 PM
now that I myself am old, band reunions after a long hiatus look a lot more peculiar to me, like imagine just arranging to go back to your first job with your old colleagues for one shift
I wrote about the British Museum’s Hawaii exhibition which is really superb: insight, informative and focussed, plus features a load of cool stuff that’s just been sitting in boxes for a century plus www.timeout.com/london/thing...
Hawaiʻi: a kingdom crossing oceans | British Museum | Things to do in London
Britain and Hawaii have a complicated history marked by surprisingly cordial relations in the face of considerable adversity. Captain Cook famously met his en
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January 12, 2026 at 5:22 PM
I wrote about the British Museum’s Hawaii exhibition which is really superb: insight, informative and focussed, plus features a load of cool stuff that’s just been sitting in boxes for a century plus www.timeout.com/london/thing...
as much as anything I just find it bewildering that these people seem so happy to entirely discount the physical side of things!
The first point here is she isn't his girlfriend; she's a sycophantic computer programme he's set up to praise him.
We need to stop indulging this
We need to stop indulging this
January 11, 2026 at 11:10 AM
as much as anything I just find it bewildering that these people seem so happy to entirely discount the physical side of things!
I’m sorry I know I shouldn’t look at the bad place but this is good content
January 10, 2026 at 7:58 PM
I’m sorry I know I shouldn’t look at the bad place but this is good content
A Ghost in Your Ear at Hampstead Theatre is a clever, spooky MR James style thriller with lots of fancy tech – if it was in the main theatre you’d maybe ask a little more of the writing, but Downstairs it’s a real treat www.timeout.com/london/theat...
A Ghost in Your Ear, Hampstead Theatre review: smart headphones-based horror play
This headphones-based horror play is a technically dazzling MR James tribute that makes great use of Hampstead’s Downstairs studio
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January 10, 2026 at 9:52 AM
A Ghost in Your Ear at Hampstead Theatre is a clever, spooky MR James style thriller with lots of fancy tech – if it was in the main theatre you’d maybe ask a little more of the writing, but Downstairs it’s a real treat www.timeout.com/london/theat...
High Noon as a theatre show was a weird idea and it’s a pretty weird reality… it feels like they wanted to update it as a MAGA allegory – which they’ve done successfully! – but it still feels more like a screenplay than a play play www.timeout.com/london/theat...
High Noon, Harold Pinter Theatre review: Denise Gough and Billy Crudup are great in this odd adaptation of the classic Western
Despite terrific turns from Denise Gough and Billy Crudup, this stage adaptation of the classic Western feels like more of a curiosity than a convincing play
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January 10, 2026 at 9:49 AM
High Noon as a theatre show was a weird idea and it’s a pretty weird reality… it feels like they wanted to update it as a MAGA allegory – which they’ve done successfully! – but it still feels more like a screenplay than a play play www.timeout.com/london/theat...
hmmmmm surely it’s just a question of dissemination, plenty of ppl can quote Abigail’s Party or A Streetcar Named Desire, maybe understandable the man on the street can’t quote a Sarah Kane play that only got staged twice
'Why aren’t theatre’s best and wisest lines more widely quoted?', asks Richard Jordan 👇
Richard Jordan on quotes from theatre
Quotes from film and TV are ubiquitous yet, Shakespeare aside, quotes from theatre productions are rarely heard. Richard Jordan suggests a way to bring them into the vernacular
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January 9, 2026 at 2:27 PM
hmmmmm surely it’s just a question of dissemination, plenty of ppl can quote Abigail’s Party or A Streetcar Named Desire, maybe understandable the man on the street can’t quote a Sarah Kane play that only got staged twice
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people will say “he will not literally post on truth social that this lady runs venezuela now after she gives him the physical nobel peace prize” and I am here to tell you that is absolutely in play and is in fact a likely outcome
I thought Trump would never get the Nobel Peace Prize. He's about to prove me wrong!
January 9, 2026 at 5:39 AM
people will say “he will not literally post on truth social that this lady runs venezuela now after she gives him the physical nobel peace prize” and I am here to tell you that is absolutely in play and is in fact a likely outcome
Reposted by Andrzej Łukowski
Scully let's split up. I'll interview this beautiful botanist and you go check out the sewer system full of human bones
January 7, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Scully let's split up. I'll interview this beautiful botanist and you go check out the sewer system full of human bones
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Hey Mr President I know you like oil, russian tankers have a lot of oil
January 7, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Hey Mr President I know you like oil, russian tankers have a lot of oil
I honestly don’t know what to think when I look at twitter these days, my feed is basically ppl who hate Trump and MCU gossip (all the theatre people left), I sort of struggle to actively condemn them
I avoid X all together now but I think there's a reasonable distinction between passively using X as a source of information or for work (an unfortunate necessity) and actively posting on it (unforgivable, have a word with yourself)
January 7, 2026 at 11:12 AM
I honestly don’t know what to think when I look at twitter these days, my feed is basically ppl who hate Trump and MCU gossip (all the theatre people left), I sort of struggle to actively condemn them
I found Woman in Mind very alluring at first, and Sheridan Smith is superb, but I didn’t really feel like it had any heart, it’s all clever stage directions instead www.timeout.com/london/theat...
Woman in Mind, Duke of York’s Theatre review: Sheridan Smith is superb in this overly conceptual Ayckbourn play
Sheridan Smith is wonderful and Romesh Ranganathan decent, but Alan Ayckbourn’s 1985 play is more artifice than heart
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January 7, 2026 at 10:27 AM
I found Woman in Mind very alluring at first, and Sheridan Smith is superb, but I didn’t really feel like it had any heart, it’s all clever stage directions instead www.timeout.com/london/theat...
fucking hell
JUST IN: Trump says the U.S. has captured Maduro and his wife and flown them out of the country.
January 3, 2026 at 10:13 AM
fucking hell
this is all quite sad but also weirdly personally reassuring insofar as I just don’t think I like messaging people enough to possibly fall for an AI
January 2, 2026 at 4:13 PM
this is all quite sad but also weirdly personally reassuring insofar as I just don’t think I like messaging people enough to possibly fall for an AI
I saw the latest Spongebob film yesterday (WITH MY CHILDREN) and it’s paired with a Ninja Turtles short that’s basically just a PSA about how shit AI is
January 2, 2026 at 2:19 PM
I saw the latest Spongebob film yesterday (WITH MY CHILDREN) and it’s paired with a Ninja Turtles short that’s basically just a PSA about how shit AI is
my New Year’s resolution is the same as my New Year’s resolution the last five years: write a programme essay! I’d be a great programme essayist!
January 1, 2026 at 9:54 AM
my New Year’s resolution is the same as my New Year’s resolution the last five years: write a programme essay! I’d be a great programme essayist!
I once got asked to move from a seat at the Young Vic ‘because it was reserved for critics’ and rather than argue I just moved, but then another critic – who I'd never even spoken to! – dobbed me in and the usher who’d asked me to change seats got genuinely quite cross with me
I once sold someone a printer in PC World because I was in my Tesco uniform and they insisted I should help them even if I wasn’t “on shift”, and it felt easier to ‘help’ them than argue.
Please quote this with stories of your minor interactions with non-celebrities, e.g. “I once accidentally bumped into a man in the Wellingborough branch of Holland & Barrett”
December 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I once got asked to move from a seat at the Young Vic ‘because it was reserved for critics’ and rather than argue I just moved, but then another critic – who I'd never even spoken to! – dobbed me in and the usher who’d asked me to change seats got genuinely quite cross with me
this is a really bizarre, toxic angle but what I really wanted to say is that it would have been funny if they’d only given a gong to one of Torville or Dean
This is a very silly headline in The Times
December 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
this is a really bizarre, toxic angle but what I really wanted to say is that it would have been funny if they’d only given a gong to one of Torville or Dean
am at the Sunderland Empire and aside from being a generally very nice theatre, are these the fanciest boxes in the country? Are these the fancies boxes in the world?
December 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
am at the Sunderland Empire and aside from being a generally very nice theatre, are these the fanciest boxes in the country? Are these the fancies boxes in the world?
in the nicest possible way, there are an awful lot of americans on bluesky and there should be a little switch to filter them out
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains
December 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
in the nicest possible way, there are an awful lot of americans on bluesky and there should be a little switch to filter them out
me at 5.45am, after two hours of fending off requests to open presents
December 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
me at 5.45am, after two hours of fending off requests to open presents
and my very final show of the year was Operation Ouch: Quest for the Jurassic Fart! – one of the most profound and formally inventive works of theatre in human history (80 minutes of two celebrity doctors talking about farting, quite good fun) www.timeout.com/london/theat...
Operation Ouch: Quest for the Jurassic Fart!, Royal Festival Hall review: Celebrity physicians Dr Chris and Dr Xand are back with a fart-centric new live show
Dr Chris and Dr Xand take a break from medicine for an exploration of the grosser aspects of dinosaur life
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December 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
and my very final show of the year was Operation Ouch: Quest for the Jurassic Fart! – one of the most profound and formally inventive works of theatre in human history (80 minutes of two celebrity doctors talking about farting, quite good fun) www.timeout.com/london/theat...
a last couple of reviews for ’25! Some people seemed to really go for the RSC’s Twelfth Night but I just found it far too much, like there are a billion things going on in in this play, you can’t amp them all up www.timeout.com/london/theat...
Twelfth Night, Barbican Centre review: The RSC’s luxury ‘Twelfth Night’ is sumptuous but overstuffed
Luxurient as a three-bird roast and just as overstuffed, the RSC’s transferring production of Twelfth Night is Shakespeare so rich it could give you indigestion
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December 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
a last couple of reviews for ’25! Some people seemed to really go for the RSC’s Twelfth Night but I just found it far too much, like there are a billion things going on in in this play, you can’t amp them all up www.timeout.com/london/theat...