Holger Syme

@literasyme

I teach Shakespeare & Co at the University of Toronto. Also sit in dark rooms a lot, watching people do stuff. Opinions are my own, not my employer's.

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  1. 4 hours ago

    Goodness, my pen is rusty. Coming back to writing about live theatre after almost two years makes for jumbled thoughts and a SLOW trickle of words.

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  2. Aug 28

    That's what I drove into earlier. Suddenly it got very dark and cold. And then the rain. The rain!

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    Really amazing storm front coming in. Just finished grocery shopping to take a short video. Got notified by whilst in the store 😁.
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  3. Aug 28

    Kind of an apocalyptic drive back from Stratford to Toronto.

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  4. Aug 28

    R&J at might just get me back to theatre blogging (sorry). My first in-person show in 16 months was always going to be an emotional experience, but this was a brilliantly thought-provoking production to boot. More soon.

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  5. Aug 27

    Stratford.

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  6. Retweeted
    Aug 26

    The Toronto District School Board has joined the City of Toronto, hospitals, universities, sport and cultural venues, & businesses with a mandatory vaccine policy. To state the obvious - where is the Province? The government with responsibility for health, education, and labour.

    NEWS RELEASE: TDSB to Develop Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccine Plan.
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    Aug 26

    🎉📖OUT TODAY📖🎉 SHAKESPEARE / TEXT () this collection of 20 essays features work in book history, bibliography, theater studies, digital humanities, & literary criticism and sets new agendas for studying & using the shakespearean text 🔎

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  8. Aug 25

    This, right there, especially on the heels of the weird Layton/Danforth stunt a few days ago, pretty much lost the NDP my vote.

    Shows a massive misunderstanding of values and interests of NDP voters. Although not on the precipice of power , this is about as hysterically tone-deaf as the Tom Mulcair pledge for a balanced budget in 2015, which effectively scuttled the only really chance of an NDP government
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    Aug 24

    hey twitter Canadian in the US here - choice in healthcare is always code for privatization. don’t fall for it

    Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole promised to give Canadians “choice” in health care on Tuesday as he pledged not to intervene with provinces that allow people to pay for faster access to health care – after Liberals said they would claw back.
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  10. Aug 24

    Listening to 1928 recordings of the Threepenny Opera and kind of amazed at the tempi -- it all sounds positively sped-up. And very little concern for any kind of prettiness. Pleasingly rough and ready.

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    Aug 21

    So, I know exactly when I was exposed to COVID. I have a very precise COVID timeline from exposure to a positive test. So I’m gonna do a little thread to show you why we have to test consistently and mask all the time to stop the spread of this virus.

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  12. Aug 21

    This is a really rather satisfying episode-by-episode discussion of :

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  13. Aug 20

    (Though I'd say that quite a bit of the faculty satire in The Chair is perhaps a decade out of date. Still. Very much of the lingo is remarkably on point.)

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  14. Aug 20

    I'll say this: if a medical drama got as much right about surgery or a legal drama about legal process as The Chair gets right about English departments, no one but surgeons and lawyers would (or could) watch them.

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  15. Aug 20

    It doesn't take much to trigger the right-wing media, does it?

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  16. Aug 18

    There seems to be little social media buzz about , which is just incomprehensible. Watched it last night, cried solidly and happily for the final half hour. Totally delightful film.

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  17. Aug 10

    Oder vielleicht ne Essay-Serie? , wie wär's? "Das Todgeweihte Theater: Eine Jahrhundertgeschichte"?

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  18. Aug 10

    There might be a book in this: "Herbert Ihering to Simon Strauss: German Theatre's Century of Moribundance."

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  19. Aug 10

    So if you only read those critics, you'd have to think there wasn't a major German dramatist for the past 100 years, and German theatre as a whole barely hung on for the entire century. it's a miracle it survived at all.

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  20. Aug 10

    Pretty much the only gap in that steady sequence of lamentations: 1933-45. Not because the Nazis only allowed author-driven theatre (though there's something to that), but because overly negative theatre criticism was suppressed.

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