EarlyModernista
@ellierycroft.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Early Modern Performance at University of Bristol: early modern bodies, PaR, gender. Formerly thinking about hair, now thinking about walking: also defining 'the Predramatic'. Teacher, cat-lover, writer, and mum, in varying measures.
As a performance-person, it is almost obliterating the very word 'performance'.
November 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
As a performance-person, it is almost obliterating the very word 'performance'.
Yes! Deconstruct used mainly wrongly by current undergraduates. DerriDON'T.
November 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Yes! Deconstruct used mainly wrongly by current undergraduates. DerriDON'T.
I have been very guilty myself of assuming that my reader just knows what I mean when I use it, but don't think we can get away with that anymore - especially not since it has been taken up by the cultural lexicon.
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I have been very guilty myself of assuming that my reader just knows what I mean when I use it, but don't think we can get away with that anymore - especially not since it has been taken up by the cultural lexicon.
has all these meanings; but which one are you invoking when you use it, and why?
November 27, 2025 at 9:41 AM
has all these meanings; but which one are you invoking when you use it, and why?
Is that actually a reference to DCB?
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Is that actually a reference to DCB?
Ha! No. But lanolin?
November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Ha! No. But lanolin?
Yay! Congratulations, Hester 👏🏼🎈👏🏼
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Yay! Congratulations, Hester 👏🏼🎈👏🏼
😂 definitely not you, among my favourite academic writers of all time!
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
😂 definitely not you, among my favourite academic writers of all time!
Yes, so much better and more expansively put - like an actual CONFIDENT writer!
November 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Yes, so much better and more expansively put - like an actual CONFIDENT writer!
MBV at the Roundhouse in 2008 and Primavera Sound in 2009. No difference between indoors and outdoors. Both loud af.
Enjoy, darling! X
Enjoy, darling! X
November 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
MBV at the Roundhouse in 2008 and Primavera Sound in 2009. No difference between indoors and outdoors. Both loud af.
Enjoy, darling! X
Enjoy, darling! X
Sorry to miss you though! Hope concert was good?
November 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Sorry to miss you though! Hope concert was good?
I actually didn't! The trains were cancelled and chaos so I had to stay over in Paddington but I've found a very good hotel if you're ever in the same boat :)
November 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I actually didn't! The trains were cancelled and chaos so I had to stay over in Paddington but I've found a very good hotel if you're ever in the same boat :)
Martin had many!
November 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Martin had many!
Also look at Martin White's PaR work on lighting the indoor playhouse which fed into the SWP :)
November 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Also look at Martin White's PaR work on lighting the indoor playhouse which fed into the SWP :)