#Duncan MacMillan

[hegodamask]

"I played Antigone and every night my heart broke for her dead brother. Then my own brother died and I felt nothing. I missed the funeral because I had a matinee. I'm not avoiding talking to the Group because I've got something to hide, Mark, it's the opposite. If I'm not in character I don't know if I'm there. I'm already dead."

Denise Gough as Emma in PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS (2024)

[timotey]

The people are not going to revolt. They will not look up from their screens long enough to notice what’s really happening.

Robert Icke & Duncan Macmillan's 2014 stage adaptation of George Orwell's 1984

[do-you-know-this-play]

[sheiladelaney]

Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs, dir. Park So-young, Art One Theater, 2020. 

[singular-almond]

im reading a play called lungs for an assignment rn and WOW holy shit this part of one of the monologues just hit way too hard

LIKE WOW OKAY

[semnebune]

Trei motive să mai mergi la teatru în luna mai, cu Vanner Collective

În pofida starturilor false, primăvara pare a se fi împământenit. Asta mai ales dacă te iei după lumina care se filtrează printre copaci. Pare greu de crezut, iar oamenii de la meteo sunt fiecare un soi de Cassandra care a tot strigat „lup” până a rămas fără voce. Dar e suficient să tragem adânc aer în plămâni și, printre moleculele de îndoială își va face loc și aerul proaspăt. În întâmpinarea…

[thenerdsofcolor]

'Every Brilliant Thing' to be performed by Daniel K. Isaac

'Every Brilliant Thing' to be performed by Daniel K. Isaac at the Geffen Playhouse

Rehearsals have begun for Geffen Playhouse’s production of Every Brilliant Thing, written by Olivier Award–nominated playwright Duncan Macmillan (Lungs; People, Places, and Things) with Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award, and Off-Broadway Alliance Award nominee Jonny Donahoe (Thirty Christmases, Forgiveness). The one-person play features Drama Desk Award nominee Daniel K. Isaac (Billions, The…

[itsagutthing]

I was tagged by @talldecafcappuccino to describe my WIPs badly! I used a very loose definition of "WIP" that ranges from "thousands of words" to "I wrote the idea down in my notes app." Good luck figuring out which is which! These are all for Ted Lasso, Roy or Rebecca-heavy.

I'm not sure who has been tagged but tagging in @thesumdancekid @boglady @mrgaretcarter @jubileen and anyone else who wants to do it!

Rules: Pick a bunch of your WIPs and summarize them as badly as possible, then ask your followers to vote on which one they’d be most likely to read. Multiple/all/none options are completely optional.

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Jane Duncan - My Friend Madame Zora - Macmillan - 1970

[snootyfoxfashion]

anyone know how to find pdfs of plays these days

[briefcupcakealpaca]

Maria Doyle Kennedy, Duncan Lacroix, Gillebride MacMillan. Fergus Scottish Festival & Highland Games, 9-11th of August 2024. Fergus, Ontario, Canada.

[hegodamask]

"You can't give me half an hour to do something that might save my life."

People, Places and Things (Trafalgar Theatre, 2024)

[measureformeasure]

october reads

due to reasons i spent basically all of october reading fervently. i can feel it slowing down but dude i thought i was just going to eat books forever. this is not normal for me. (* if it was for class, bolded if it was special to meeee)

books

finished the odyssey*

everything under, daisy johnson

rouge, mona awad

between the body and the flesh, lynda hart

alcestis, katharine beutner

novellas/whatever anne carson is doing

michael kohlhaas, heinrich von kleist trans. michael hoffman

the penelopiad (reread)*

the beauty of the husband, anne carson

the pleasure of the text, roland barthes

short talks, anne carson

plays

far away, caryl churchill*

hecuba, euripides

zadie's shoes, adam pettle*

intimacy, thomas bradshaw* (this play SUCKS)

penthesilea, heinrich von kleist (INSTANT fave. this play fucks hard)

amphitryon, heinrich von kleist

people, places & things, duncan macmillan

the hothouse, harold pinter

the oresteia, trans. sarah ruden (probably? a reread? but damn. plays of all time)

venus in fur, david ives

the vermont plays, annie baker (the aliens, circle mirror transformation, nocturama, body awareness - my favourite was nocturama)

the effect, lucy prebble

"daddy": a melodrama, jeremy o. harris

articles/nonfiction

emily wilson talking about translation choices (here)

interview with anne carson in the paris review (here)

currently reading

stories under occupation: and other plays from palestine

henry henry, allen bratton

love is the greater labyrinth, sor juana inés de la cruz* (possibly for a final project)

ovid's heroines, clare pollard

tbr

piranesi

lolita

sex changes with kleist

[do-you-know-this-play]

as a reminder, because this is a very well known story, this question is about the stage play specifically.

[lighttailoring]

Ship: Emma/happiness (People, Places & Things)

AU setting: I don’t think it makes sense to put her anywhere but the real world, so

I could’ve asked this anonymously, but you would’ve known who it was from. 😂

Emma stands on the little podium in the centre of the stage. She has to be Emma right now, because Rachel's a work in progress and Sarah's too attached to the treatment centre - she'd liked Nina but apparently nobody else had. So she's Emma, and she's looking out into the audience for the last time before she says her final line - the actress is looking out into the audience for the last time, and Emma looks too, and this is the part that always gets tricky because it's almost over, these are the last words she gets to say before she stops existing (sort of, it's complicated) and she wants a cigarette and the next cigarette she'll get will be the one she lights up in reception when it all starts again and she wonders if the actress smokes and she wonders if that makes a difference and she's frustrated that she doesn't get to know because she'd like to know whether or not she's pissing off the person whose body she's fucking inhabiting, you know? And oh fuck that was a question mark wasn't it that's not the end of the sentence that's not the end of it that's not how a stream of consciousness works fuck off she's going to keep talking because, actually, whether you like it or not she exists in the minds of the audience now, beyond the stage, actually, and everybody's got a different version of her inside their head and like obviously she doesn't know what happens to them all but in terms of probability, right, one of them gets to be happy, right, like -

(I'm not Duncan Macmillan but hopefully @supervisormeero likes this)

[leviantapolitics]

I got very very bored at one point looking at the coverage. Yes, we just stole Truss’s seat. But what about other former party leaders? What happened to their constituencies?

With every seat now declared, I decided to look at every Conservative, Labour, Liberal Party, Liberal Democrat, and pre-continuing SDP leader from 1960 to 2010 only and the seat they held when they were in government. If the borders changed, I tracked down the constituency closest to it. Then I looked at the results from this general election. Here’s some things I learnt.

- The former Conservative leader seats that stayed Tory were the ones of Harold Macmillan, Edward Heath, John Major, William Hague, and of course Iain Duncan Smith. The seat of Bromley and Biggin Hill (Macmillan’s Bromley seat) had a majority of only 302. Hague’s stayed Conservative because… well it’s Sunak’s seat.

- The seats of former Tory leaders more closely associated with One Nation Conservatism or Thatcher’s “wets” stayed Tory with majorities within the 4000s (i.e. Edward Heath and John Major)

- Douglas-Home’s went to the SNP. This is the only case of this happening among them all

- Thatcher’s seat went to Labour. Michael Howard’s seat also went to Labour

- Former Labour leader seats had the highest consistent safe seat majorities. The highest was for Knowsley which was created from Knowsley South which was then created from Harold Wilson’s Huyton seat.

- The seats for Hugh Gaitskell’s Leeds South, James Callaghan’s Cardiff South and Penarth and Michael Foot’s Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney (created from his Blaenau Gwent seat) all achieved over 10,000 for a majority.

- Neil Kinnock out of all the former Labour leaders had the lowest majority regarding the seat of Caerphilly (merged with his seat of Islwyn). This seat had a lower majority than Kinnock’s son Stephen, a current MP.

- All the former Labour leader seats were either holds or Labour gains. The gains were for Airdrie and Shotts (John Smith, created from Monklands East), Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor (Tony Blair, created from Sedgefield) and Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy (Gordon Brown).

- The Liberal Democrats gained three seats where a former leader of the party held it. These are North Devon (Jeremy Thorpe), Yeovil (Paddy Ashdown) and Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire (Charles Kennedy, created from the seat Ross, Skye and Lochaber). Excluding the parameters I set yearwise, this number goes up to four with the seat of Mid Dunbartonshire (Jo Swinson, created from the seat East Dunbartonshire).

- The seat of Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (created from David Steel’s Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale) is the only Conservative hold among all former non-Conservative leader seats.

- The seats of the two SDP leaders who led in the Alliance before the 1987 election, Roy Jenkins and David Owen, both had their seats gained by Labour. Jenkins’ was a gain from the SNP and Owen’s was a gain from the Tories.

- The two Liberal Democrat holds for their former leaders were for Orkney and Shetland (Jo Grimond, Liberal Party) and Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Robert Maclennan, the SDP leader who helped with the merger).

- Nick Clegg’s seat Sheffield Hallam is a Labour hold with the Liberal Democrats second. The majority is 8,189.