Adrian Curtin
@adriancurtin.bsky.social
theatre, music, & the like
university of exeter
profile: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/21961-adrian-curtin
university of exeter
profile: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/21961-adrian-curtin
I've written an article for Theatre Research International about Laura Bowler's music theatre piece Houses Slide and its representation of climate psychology. It's available here, should you wish to peruse it! shorturl.at/f4VGd. @tandfresearch.bsky.social
Climate psychology as music theatre in Laura Bowler’s Houses Slide
This article analyses Houses Slide, a music theatre piece for soprano and orchestra composed by Laura Bowler, first presented by London Sinfonietta in 2021 in a performance directed by Katie Mitche...
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March 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM
I've written an article for Theatre Research International about Laura Bowler's music theatre piece Houses Slide and its representation of climate psychology. It's available here, should you wish to peruse it! shorturl.at/f4VGd. @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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I keep saying a version. Knowledge is only gained through labor. Eliminate labor and you eliminate learning. No learning, no knowledge.
This essay (by Ronald Purser) is brilliant.
"Thinking, like strength, develops through resistance. The more we delegate our mental strain to machines, the more we lose the capacity to think at all."
YES!!!
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"Thinking, like strength, develops through resistance. The more we delegate our mental strain to machines, the more we lose the capacity to think at all."
YES!!!
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I keep saying a version. Knowledge is only gained through labor. Eliminate labor and you eliminate learning. No learning, no knowledge.
Why Does A.I. Write Like … That? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
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December 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Why Does A.I. Write Like … That? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
Re-reading Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, and remembering how joyous it was to perform. We must stir our way onward mixing as we go...
November 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Re-reading Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, and remembering how joyous it was to perform. We must stir our way onward mixing as we go...
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The Climate Choir strikes again in King's Cross! 🎵🎶🎵 Rosebank, Rosebank, YOU SHALL NOT PASS! Burning the #Rosebank oil would emit more than 200 million tons of CO2, while not helping our energy security because the oil would be sold on the international markets. It's madness.
BREAKING: 🎶 Flash mob takes over King’s Cross Station in a protest against climate-wrecking Rosebank oil field.
Rosebank’s future is undecided. But together, we can stop it.
@climatechoirs.bsky.social have used their voices - will you use yours? 📣
Join us 👉 bit.ly/rosebankchoir
Rosebank’s future is undecided. But together, we can stop it.
@climatechoirs.bsky.social have used their voices - will you use yours? 📣
Join us 👉 bit.ly/rosebankchoir
September 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The Climate Choir strikes again in King's Cross! 🎵🎶🎵 Rosebank, Rosebank, YOU SHALL NOT PASS! Burning the #Rosebank oil would emit more than 200 million tons of CO2, while not helping our energy security because the oil would be sold on the international markets. It's madness.
Part of the ‘Gathering Ground’ exhibition at the Tate.
September 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Part of the ‘Gathering Ground’ exhibition at the Tate.
"I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
Opinion | I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.
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July 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
Hugh Shrapnel’s Improvisation Rite 44 (1969): 'Do something impossible, Do something possible; Make the impossible thing seem possible, Make the possible thing seem impossible'.
July 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Hugh Shrapnel’s Improvisation Rite 44 (1969): 'Do something impossible, Do something possible; Make the impossible thing seem possible, Make the possible thing seem impossible'.
A funny piece from Cornelius Cardew's The Great Learning (1971)
July 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
A funny piece from Cornelius Cardew's The Great Learning (1971)
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The Earthlings Family Orchestra has been creating music to, with & about the accompanying ambiences of Exeter's Lower Hoopern Valley. It's been interesting and surprising. I'll write it up soon. In the meantime, these silent pics show a little of the space we shared & the space we made.
June 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Earthlings Family Orchestra has been creating music to, with & about the accompanying ambiences of Exeter's Lower Hoopern Valley. It's been interesting and surprising. I'll write it up soon. In the meantime, these silent pics show a little of the space we shared & the space we made.
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ORGANS! clavichord, bon tempi organ, pipe organ, Venta organ, stylophone - Simon Belshaw has been 'converting pieces written to be played by a computer into pieces playable by musicians.' for our ECS concert 14/6. #ECSLostandFound #artweekexeter #artweekexeter25 #awe25
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June 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
ORGANS! clavichord, bon tempi organ, pipe organ, Venta organ, stylophone - Simon Belshaw has been 'converting pieces written to be played by a computer into pieces playable by musicians.' for our ECS concert 14/6. #ECSLostandFound #artweekexeter #artweekexeter25 #awe25
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My book Death in Modern Theatre: Stages of Mortality, first published by @manchesterup.bsky.social in 2019, is now out in paperback at a more affordable price. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191236/ The subject matter may be 'heavy', but now the book is lighter...
Manchester University Press - Death in modern theatre
Death in modern theatre - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Death in modern theatre by Adrian Curtin
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
My book Death in Modern Theatre: Stages of Mortality, first published by @manchesterup.bsky.social in 2019, is now out in paperback at a more affordable price. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191236/ The subject matter may be 'heavy', but now the book is lighter...
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This petition was created by postgraduates at Plymouth University, responding to the proposed cutting of fine art, performing arts and music.
This would be a huge loss to creative education in the region as well as to the city's cultural ecology and wellbeing.
Please sign.
This would be a huge loss to creative education in the region as well as to the city's cultural ecology and wellbeing.
Please sign.
Sign the Petition
Stop the cuts to Arts, Design & Architecture courses at University of Plymouth
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May 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This petition was created by postgraduates at Plymouth University, responding to the proposed cutting of fine art, performing arts and music.
This would be a huge loss to creative education in the region as well as to the city's cultural ecology and wellbeing.
Please sign.
This would be a huge loss to creative education in the region as well as to the city's cultural ecology and wellbeing.
Please sign.
Staff & students @uniofexeterdrama.bsky.social attend an in-house screening of Romeo Castellucci’s strange yet beautiful piece Inferno (2008), inspired by Dante’s The Divine Comedy. What dreams may come!
May 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Staff & students @uniofexeterdrama.bsky.social attend an in-house screening of Romeo Castellucci’s strange yet beautiful piece Inferno (2008), inspired by Dante’s The Divine Comedy. What dreams may come!
My book The Theatrical Orchestra: British Music Ensembles Experiment with Performance is out! I write about some amazing groups and aim to convey the richness of their work. Please consider ordering a copy for your library. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177629/ @manchesterup.bsky.social
Manchester University Press - The theatrical orchestra
The theatrical orchestra - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The theatrical orchestra by Adrian Curtin
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
April 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
My book The Theatrical Orchestra: British Music Ensembles Experiment with Performance is out! I write about some amazing groups and aim to convey the richness of their work. Please consider ordering a copy for your library. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177629/ @manchesterup.bsky.social
Spotted at the Glucksman museum in Cork. I initially thought it was a real person.
April 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Spotted at the Glucksman museum in Cork. I initially thought it was a real person.
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Breaking: 200-strong Climate Choir stages flashmob in St Paul's Cathedral, demanding that @churchofengland.org - a top ten UK landowner - #rewild 30% of its land.
Nature is in crisis. Time to #RewildTheChurch!
@wildcard.land
#ChurchofEngland #nature #wildlife #choir #climate #whatwouldjesusdo
Nature is in crisis. Time to #RewildTheChurch!
@wildcard.land
#ChurchofEngland #nature #wildlife #choir #climate #whatwouldjesusdo
March 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Breaking: 200-strong Climate Choir stages flashmob in St Paul's Cathedral, demanding that @churchofengland.org - a top ten UK landowner - #rewild 30% of its land.
Nature is in crisis. Time to #RewildTheChurch!
@wildcard.land
#ChurchofEngland #nature #wildlife #choir #climate #whatwouldjesusdo
Nature is in crisis. Time to #RewildTheChurch!
@wildcard.land
#ChurchofEngland #nature #wildlife #choir #climate #whatwouldjesusdo
Loré Lixenberg's call for The Voice Party, a participatory operatic political structure that proposes to radically musicalise the entire fabric of society. Taken from the open-access book, Classical Music Futures: Practices of Innovation: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116....
March 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Loré Lixenberg's call for The Voice Party, a participatory operatic political structure that proposes to radically musicalise the entire fabric of society. Taken from the open-access book, Classical Music Futures: Practices of Innovation: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116....
Exeter Drama finalists have presented devised work for audiences around the city. There were shows about female codebreakers, fast fashion, women’s football, AI, the nature of art, our relationship with light, political cabaret, & toxic relationships. Quite a mix!
@uniofexeterdrama.bsky.social
@uniofexeterdrama.bsky.social
March 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Exeter Drama finalists have presented devised work for audiences around the city. There were shows about female codebreakers, fast fashion, women’s football, AI, the nature of art, our relationship with light, political cabaret, & toxic relationships. Quite a mix!
@uniofexeterdrama.bsky.social
@uniofexeterdrama.bsky.social
A shopfront curiosity in Exeter.
March 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A shopfront curiosity in Exeter.
to what shall I / compare this world of ours –
February 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
to what shall I / compare this world of ours –
‘The Ostrich Dance of Renita Kramer’ (1950s).
February 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
‘The Ostrich Dance of Renita Kramer’ (1950s).