So much respect for the woman reading a hardback novel in the soft play

Unexpected double bill this morning: Hart asked for the story of 'The Iliad', interspersed with that other weighty classic, 'Nelly the Elephant'.

JOB SPECIAL - Playwrights! It's a good week to sign up for OpenHire (openhire.uk)

Here is an OpenHire Job ad for the Associate Playwright Royal Court. Yeah, told you it was good.

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'nina, can you send us the name of the theatre in your handwriting?' 'of course, let me just find the worst pen I own'

95% thrilled / 5% terrified to be joining the Royal Court as an associate playwright, alongside Vinay, Ryan, Gill and Mike. What a team. What a theatre. And one more associate playwright still to be found!

Don't look away. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Baby just pulled himself to stand for the first time, desperately grabbed Leslie Jamison's Splinters, and is now chewing it on the floor.

I think it's possible within our globalised society to become jaded about travel, but I've been in Latvia for three days and I've already seen a beaver in a tshirt

Thinking about King's, where I was born, where my youngest son was born, and how unimaginable it is that it would ever be destroyed. Thinking about what it is to live without functioning healthcare, let alone in a war zone. Thinking about how any of this is justifiable. It's not.

Join us on an epic adventure through the stormy seas and mythical lands!

For ages 8 - 13 | The Odyssey in on until 21 Apr
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'The Odyssey without Odysseus. It’s an ambitious concept, but one that ultimately proves inspired... this is The Odyssey as seen through the eyes of the saga’s oft-forgotten child.'

Excited to be working on my first opera: WE ARE THE LUCKY ONES, a collaboration with Philip Venables (composer) and Ted Huffman (director and co-writer), premiering at Dutch National Opera next March!

Hart keeps asking me about space travel, forcing me to confront my inability to differentiate between 'scientific fact' and 'the plot of a bruce willis movie'