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Emma Miriam @emmamiriamb.bsky.social · May 17

Farewell for now @theyardtheatre.bsky.social

| such a brilliant send off 🧡

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The Yard Theatre @theyardtheatre.bsky.social · May 16

A perfect piece to send us off ❤️

Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · May 16

It's the end of an era for The Yard - and saying goodbye to the Hackney Wick venue feels bittersweet for many.

So we decided to immortalise it, collecting memories of amazing shows, career breaks, smoking areas, dancing dogs, spaceships, headbanging, raw fish, and meeting the love of your life

Live chicks, dyke raves, and true love... our best memories of The Yard

As the The Yard is demolished to make way for a shiny new building, theatre-makers, party-throwers, and Exeunt writers share their most vivid memories

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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · May 16

And to celebrate @theyardtheatre.bsky.social's milestone...

And to say thanks to everyone who contributed...

And to mark our own milestone of Exeunt having been back for six months (!!)

...this piece is FREE to read for ALL!

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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · May 16

It's the end of an era for The Yard - and saying goodbye to the Hackney Wick venue feels bittersweet for many.

So we decided to immortalise it, collecting memories of amazing shows, career breaks, smoking areas, dancing dogs, spaceships, headbanging, raw fish, and meeting the love of your life

Live chicks, dyke raves, and true love... our best memories of The Yard

As the The Yard is demolished to make way for a shiny new building, theatre-makers, party-throwers, and Exeunt writers share their most vivid memories

substack.com

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Very Nearly Half Witted @vnearlyhalfwitted.bsky.social · May 5

Fantastic first visit to the Yard Theatre for The Glass Menagerie, superbly staged and completely absorbing from start to finish

Time is the longest distance between two places

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Judith Mackrell @judithmackrell.bsky.social · Apr 13

Highly recommend the Yard Theatre's production of Glass Menagerie - gets the fever dream heart of TW's poetry

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Win Monroe @winmonroe.bsky.social · Apr 14

For people in London that enjoy theater, The Glass Menagerie at Yard Theater is excellent. Highly recommended.

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Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social · Apr 25

‘It was high chaos’: the birth, death and rebirth of London’s coolest theatre www.timeout.com/london/news/... < I caught up with Jay from the Yard to ask exactly how chaotic the early days were and if they’re all sellout fatcat capitalists now

‘It was high chaos’: the death and rebirth of London’s coolest theatre

The Yard founder Jay Miller speaks to Time Out

www.timeout.com

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Sheridan Flynn @sheridanflynn.com · Apr 27

Near perfect production of The Glass Menagerie at the Yard Theatre in Hackney Wick. Closes in May when the theatre is demolished and rebuilt.

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West Camel @westcamel.bsky.social · Apr 17

Over to Hackney Wick yesterday to see The Glass Menagerie at The Yard Theatre. Powerful production with excellent performances from all players. Lots of contemporary touches but Williams’ text is allowed to shine as brightly, and as devastatingly, as ever.

www.theyardtheatre.co.uk/events/the-g...

The Glass Menagerie | The Yard Theatre

Reimagines theatre to reimagine the world

www.theyardtheatre.co.uk

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The Stage @thestage.co.uk · Mar 29

Yard Theatre bosses have warned that cuts to arts reporting was making it more difficult for theatres to get their work reviewed 👇

Yard bosses: Culture editors should give critics 24 hours to write good reviews

www.thestage.co.uk

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Marycshaw @marycshaw.bsky.social · Apr 3

My last visit to The Yard Theatre in Hackney Wick before it closes to be rebuilt.
Jay Miller’s The Glass Menagerie has had terrific reviews and the run has been extended to May 10th. Some tickets still available but it’s selling out.

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The Yard Theatre @theyardtheatre.bsky.social · Apr 1

08.05.2025. The Next Act. A special fundraising evening ✨

Join us for The Glass Menagerie, then a night of champagne, feasting, performances and DJs.

Our new building is secured—now help us fill it with urgent stories, young artists & theatre that breaks boundaries.

theyardtheatre.co.uk/nextact

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The Yard Theatre @theyardtheatre.bsky.social · Apr 1

This will be the launch of a major campaign to support our future.

Be here when it all begins. Be the force behind what comes next. Years from now, say you were there when it started.

theyardtheatre.co.uk/nextact

The Yard Theatre @theyardtheatre.bsky.social · Apr 1

08.05.2025. The Next Act. A special fundraising evening ✨

Join us for The Glass Menagerie, then a night of champagne, feasting, performances and DJs.

Our new building is secured—now help us fill it with urgent stories, young artists & theatre that breaks boundaries.

theyardtheatre.co.uk/nextact

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Tabby Lamb @tabby.bsky.social · Mar 20

I wrote about my relationship to The Glass Menagerie, and how own interpretation of it as an autistic trans woman after seeing @theyardtheatre.bsky.social’s amazing production:

open.substack.com/pub/tabbylam...

the glass timeline: a transfem reading of the glass menagerie

in which i distract myself from a burning world with an old play.

open.substack.com

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The Yard Theatre @theyardtheatre.bsky.social · Mar 14

"If this was really it for The Yard, then it would be going out on a high" Time Out

First wave of reviews have dropped. Tickets are shifting even faster. Our phones are ringing off the hook.

We did warn you. The Glass Menagerie is officially a (smash) hit 🔨

theyardtheatre.co.uk/theglassmenagerie

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The Yard Theatre @theyardtheatre.bsky.social · Mar 14

"If this was really it for The Yard, then it would be going out on a high" Time Out

First wave of reviews have dropped. Tickets are shifting even faster. Our phones are ringing off the hook.

We did warn you. The Glass Menagerie is officially a (smash) hit 🔨

theyardtheatre.co.uk/theglassmenagerie

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Kathryn Havelock @kathrynhavelock.bsky.social · Mar 13

Just booked tickets for this at @theyardtheatre.bsky.social Theatre so VERY excited that it's got such a glowing review in
@theguardian.com

The Glass Menagerie review – exquisite, utterly devastating take on Tennessee Williams’ classic

Jay Miller’s production raises the ghosts of troubled memories with powerful intimacy in this final show before the venue gets a grand refit

www.theguardian.com

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Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · Mar 12

Hackney’s beloved @theyardtheatre.bsky.social is bowing out of the first phase of its storied life with something strange and wonderful. This #TheGlassMenagerie is tremendously effective and affecting. ajhlovestheatre.org/2025/03/12/t...

THE GLASS MENAGERIE – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – it’s the hipster take on Tennessee Williams that you didn’t know you needed, but will probably never forget

Tom Varey and Sharon Small, photograph by Manuel Harlan THE GLASS MENAGERIE by Tennessee Williams directed by Jay Miller The Yard Theatre, London – until 10 May 2025 running time:…

ajhlovestheatre.org

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North West End UK @northwestenduk.bsky.social · Mar 12

#REVIEW - The Glass Menagerie at @theyardtheatre.bsky.social "the quality of the creativity on stage is never in question" northwestend.com/the-glass-me... #TheatreSky #London

The Glass Menagerie – The Yard Theatre - North West End UK

When the audience walked into the theatre, an actor was spray painting the wall of the stage, and smoke was being pumped into the air, a fitting start for an exceptional and anarchic evening of theatr...

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David Jays @mrdavidjays.bsky.social · Mar 13

Felt a pang at my final visit to the old @theyardtheatre.bsky.social, though The Glass Menagerie is a beautiful way to say goodbye. The long fragile scene between Laura and her gentleman caller is breathtaking - sensationally delicate stage debuts by Eva Morgan & Jad Sayegh

Laura & the gentleman caller dancing together, bathed in golden light.

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The Yard Theatre @theyardtheatre.bsky.social · Mar 12

“One of the finest stagings of the Tennessee Williams play that I’ve ever seen.” @telegraphnews.bsky.social

The Glass Menagerie is open. Here till 10 May.

theyardtheatre.co.uk/theglassmenagerie

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The Yard Theatre @theyardtheatre.bsky.social · Mar 12

“One of the finest stagings of the Tennessee Williams play that I’ve ever seen.” @telegraphnews.bsky.social

The Glass Menagerie is open. Here till 10 May.

theyardtheatre.co.uk/theglassmenagerie

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The Yard Theatre @theyardtheatre.bsky.social · Mar 12

actually opened around March 2024 and we think they mean fab(hackney)wick

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