#OnThisDay in 1917, #BettyComden, American #lyricist ("On The Town"; "Just In Time") and #playwright, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2006).
#RIP

Today in labor history April 28, 1896: Tristan Tzara was born. He was a Romanian-French poet, journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, film director. He co-founded the anti-establishment Dada movement. During Hitler’s rise to power, he participated in the anti-fascist movement and the French Communist Party. In 1934, Tzara organized a mock trial of Salvador Dalí because of his fawning over Hitler and Franco. The surrealists Andre Breton, Paul Éluard and René Crevel helped run the trial. In the 1940s, Tzara lived in Marseilles with a large group of anti-fascist artists and writers, under the protection of American diplomat Varian Fry. These included Victor Serge, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Andre Breton and Max Ernst. Later he joined the French Resistance, writing propaganda and running their pirate radio station. After the Liberation of Paris, he wrote for L'Éternelle Revue, a communist newspaper edited by Jean-Paul Sartre. Other contributors to the newspaper included Louis Aragon, Éluard, Jacques Prévert and Pablo Picasso. Varian Fry, and his communal home for radicals in hiding, was portrayed in the historical drama series “Transatlantic.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #dada #TristanTzara #nazis #antifascist #poetry #literary #communism #fascism #surrealism #maxernst #sartre #picasso #victorserge #dali #andrebreton #film #hitler #books #playwright @bookstadon

still building this beautiful #python #asetniop #curses editor with special focus for me as a #playwright.

unlike the screenwriter-focused #fountain, it is truly and fully #markdown based, with some additional styling added.

also it’s fully customizable; you just have to modify a very readable style.py to your liking! no .css vomit or wysiwyg menu hell

trying out #cryptpad since google and ms are eternally simps for fascism.

i am pleased! it even has dark mode!

16 Apr 1689: d. Aphra Behn #playwright #poet #writer #otd (St Hilda's College, Oxford)

Funeral held for Antonine Maillet, renowned Acadian author who died in February
A funeral was held Saturday for Antonine Maillet, with songs and theatrical performances highlighting a celebration of the life of the renowned Acadian playwright and author.
#death #author #funeral #playwright #Canada #Entertainment
https://globalnews.ca/news/11128811/antonine-maillet-funeral/

DAY 5 - Book Challenge : 20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just #BookCovers. #20books #20books20days #BookCover #CoverIllustration #Cover_Art #Book #Books #Art #20thCenturyDrama #SerjeantMusgravesDance #JohnArden #Playwright #Plays #Theatre #20thCenturyLiterature #Literature
#EnglisDrama #BritishPlaywright #BritishDrama #PaperbackCovers #Paperbacks #PaperbackBooks

"Whenever the #author and #playwright Samantha Ellis tries to define her heritage to people, she often finds them correcting her. “So many times I’ve said I’m an #Iraqi #Jew and been… told ‘you mean you’re mixed’ or ‘which parent is which?’ or just ‘how weird’,” she writes in her richly detailed #memoir, in which she explores the complex, centuries-old history of the Iraqi-#Jewish community and its vanishing language, #Judeo-Iraqi #Arabic.

The daughter of Iraqi-Jewish #refugees who came separately to #London with their families during periods of persecution for the community in #Baghdad, Ellis is moved to seek out #stories, expressions and objects that will fill some of the gaps in that #history when she realises that she lacks the vocabulary to pass on the language of her childhood to her own young son."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/06/chopping-onions-on-my-heart-by-samantha-ellis-review-an-iraqi-jews-celebration-of-an-endangered-culture

In my latest artist-on-artist conversation, Christine Boylan – the 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' showrunner and co-founder of Bespoke Plays – discusses the virtues of genre, her love affair with the stage, and what she's looking for out of art these days.

#screenwriting #screenwriter #playwright #writing #writingtips #writinglife #writingcommunity #avatarthelastairbender
 
https://colehaddon.substack.com/p/q-and-a-screenwriter-christine-boylan

Today in Labor History February 28, 1933: Erich Mühsam, was arrested and blamed for the Reichstag fire. The fire was actually set by Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch council communist.
Mühsam was sent to the Oranienberg concentration camp, where he was tortured and murdered. Mühsam was an anarchist, poet and playwright who condemned Nazism and satirized Hitler. In the wake of the fire, President von Hindenburg issued the Reichstag Fire Decree, suspending civil liberties, and launching a "ruthless confrontation" with the Communists, making the fire pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany. They went on a witch hunt, mass-arresting Communists, including members of Parliament, crippling their participation in the March 5th special elections, which allowed the Nazi party to expand their plurality in parliament. Hitler had called in hopes of moving the Nazi party from a plurality to a majority through quasi-legal means. Sound familiar?

#workingclass #LaborHistory #nazis #hitler #germany #communism #anarchism #concentrationcamp #reichstag #Poet #playwright #fascism #antifascism #antifa @bookstadon

Today in Labor History February 26, 1616: The Roman Catholic Church formally banned Galileo Galilei from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun. In 1633, they tried and convicted him of heresy, and imprisoned him for the rest of his life. Bertolt Brecht wrote the play “Galileo” in 1938, which first played in Zurich, in 1943. Brecht fled Nazi Germany in 1933.

#galileo #BertoltBrecht #FreeSpeech #science #inquisition #censorship #drama #playwright #heresy #catholic #workingclass #nazi #LaborHistory @bookstadon

#RicardoAntin

#LosEjecutivosTambiénTienenAlma ("Executives Have a Soul Too")
#AlfaRecords 1969

#Advertising #creative, #novelist, #poet, #playwright, and #musician.
Lost and mysterious gem, available for the first time on digital

https://ricardoantin.bandcamp.com/album/los-ejecutivos-tambi-n-tienen-alma

Today in Labor History February 16, 1848: Octave Mirbeau, French novelist and playwright was born. Mirbeau wrote highly transgressive novels that dealt with violence, abuse and psychological detachment. He was also an anarchist and supporter of Alfred Dreyfuss, the Jewish French military officer wrongfully convicted of treason in an antisemitic show trial. He completed his novel, “The Torture Garden,” during the Dreyfess trial and dedicated it to "the priests, soldiers, judges, to those people who educate, instruct and govern men, I dedicate these pages of Murder and Blood."

#workingclass #LaborHistory #fiction #literary #novel #OctaveMirbeau #satire #AlfredDreyfess #author #writer #antisemitism #playwright #anarchism #fiction #books @bookstadon

Today in Labor History February 10, 1898: Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht was born. Brecht was a doctor, poet and playwright. He fled the Nazis only to be persecuted in the U.S. by HUAC during the Cold War. He is most well-known for his play, “The Three Penny Opera.” He also wrote “Mother Courage and Her Children” and “The Days of the Commune,” about the Paris Commune. Additionally, he wrote poetry and composed the lyrics to many of the songs performed in his plays, like “Mack the Knife” and “Alabama Song” (AKA Whiskey Bar). https://youtu.be/6orDcL0zt34

#workingclass #LaborHistory #nazis #fascism #huac #Anticommunist #witchhunt #BertoltBrecht #marxist #Poet #books #writer #author #fiction #playwright #ParisCommune @bookstadon

Today in Labor History February 7, 1917: A court wrongly convicted labor organizer Tom Mooney for the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing in July 1916. The governor finally granted him an unconditional pardon after 22.5 years of incarceration. 10 people died in the bombing and 40 were injured. A jury convicted two labor leaders, Thomas Mooney and Warren Billings, based on false testimony. Both were pardoned in 1939. Not surprisingly, only anarchists were suspected in the bombing. A few days after the bombing, they searched and seized materials from the offices of “The Blast,” Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman’s local paper. They also threatened to arrest Berkman.
In 1931, while they were still in prison, I. J. Golden persuaded the Provincetown Theater to produce his play, “Precedent,” about the Mooney and Billings case. Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times wrote, “By sparing the heroics and confining himself chiefly to a temperate exposition of his case [Golden] has made “Precedent” the most engrossing political drama since the Sacco-Vanzetti play entitled Gods of the Lightening… Friends of Tom Mooney will rejoice to have his case told so crisply and vividly.”

You can read my full bio of Tom Mooney here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/05/19/tom-mooney-and-warren-billings/

#LaborHistory #workingclass #bombing #sanfrancisco #TomMooney #anarchism #prison #wrongfulconviction #EmmaGoldman #play #playwright #books @bookstadon

#OnThisDay in 1902, #LangstonHughes, American #poet (Weary Blues), #playwright (Mulatto), and librettist (Troubled Island), born in Joplin, Missouri (d. 1967).
#RIP

Today in Labor History January 31, 1912: A General Strike began in Brisbane, Australia. It lasted until March 6. The strike was a response to the suspension of tramway workers for wearing union badges. Within a few days, the strike committee became the de facto government of Brisbane. No work could be done in the city without the committee’s permission. They created their own independent police force and provided ambulance service for the city. They issued strike coupons, redeemable at stores that were in solidarity with the strikers. People wore red ribbons to show their support and even put them on their dogs and dray horses. On the second day of the strike, 25,000 people marched, with another 50,000 supporters watching. On Black Friday, February 2, the cops attacked a women’s march with batons. Emma Miller, a trade unionist and suffragist who was in her 70s and weighed less than 80 pounds, pulled out a hat pin and stabbed the rump of the police commissioner’s horse. The horse reared and threw the commissioner. As a result of his injury, he limped for the rest of his life. The courts ultimately ruled in favor of the unionists, and their right to wear union badges while on the job. Errol O’Neill wrote a play about the strike, “Faces in the Street.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #Brisbane #australia #generalstrike #policebrutality #union #eugeneoneal #solidarity #playwright @bookstadon

If you have been on the fence about adopting #Playwright for your frontend tests, take a look at this: https://buff.ly/40yRtIx

This video is a little demo that covers a lot of what Playwright can do.

This demo is a part of my Modern frontend development with #Django, #HTMX, #Tailwind, #Playwright and #AlpineJS workshop. I'm running the workshop on 1+2 Feb and 15+16 March. Full details, tickets and testimonials here: https://buff.ly/4hq7FUr

My next Modern frontend development with #Django, #HTMX, #Tailwind, #Playwright and #AlpineJS workshop is happening on 1 and 2 Feb. There are still some tickets left!

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Today in Writing History January 19, 1829: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's “Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy” premiered. It’s the story of a scientist who makes a pact with the devil to gain power and knowledge. It took him 37 years to complete the play. Goethe also published scientific works on anatomy and botany. In the late 1700s, he wrote that variation in plants and animals was due to descent from common ancestors. This idea later influenced Darwin, who also credited Goethe with discovering the intermaxillary bone. Goethe’s novel, “Sorrows of Young Werther,” led to a suicide craze in Europe.

#writing #playwright #faust #Mephisto #Goethe #novel #fiction #Devil #darwin #science #evolution #writer #author #darwin @bookstadon