Billy Barrett

We Did Not Consent - now streaming on Guardian documentaries. Proud to have co-written this with @ellicestevens and helped develop it with director @dorothyallenpickard - working closely with our three anonymous contributors 🐰🦓🌾 Have been spending some time at the Undercover Policing Inquiry this month and am so full of admiration for those recounting their intimate and personal experiences yet again to hold the police accountable for their appalling behaviour over the past few decades. You can watch the full film at /we-did-not-consent Director @dorothyallenpickard Lead contributors @policespiesoutoflives_ Cast @bekahhakeb & Craig Hamilton Writers @billyjackbarrett & @ellicestevens Producer @rosaofficiale Exec producers @lindsay_poulton @jessgorm @becsrai DOPs @mrjackwells @jhaldon Costume design @mathew.stevenson.wright Production design @I_am_dave_the_goldfish Editor @new_solemns Colour @m.y.l.e.s Sound @olliedrummond @ro_oh_no Music @jo_paterson Intimacy Coordinator @dthackeray Researcher @graceshelleyy Special thanks to @sally.cowling @batterseaartscentre Made with @breach_theatre @guardian @girlsinfilm_gif @policespiesoutoflives_

Just when I managed to get the tunes out of my head ... our documentary musical about Section 28, After the Act, is coming back - this time to the Royal Court. 21st May - 14th June. Tell your friends ! 📢

It's True, It's True, It's True 🎨 11pm, Sunday February 9th 🗡 BBC Four / available on iPlayer for 30 days 📺

We’re open! It’s been a dream to work at @homeliveart for the last 6 months as Coordinator of @hastingsqueerhistory ’s brilliant exhibition Lemons, Laws & Secret Doors at @hastings_museum . 10 community curators uncovering & responding to local LGBT+ heritage through artworks, oral histories, archive photos & objects. Plus an amazing specially commissioned piece by @sissysigns 🪧 On until end of August with a load of exciting wraparound events - and it’s free admission 🍋 📸- @alice_denny

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Still a few spots left on my weekend devising intensive at @theatre503 ! For me writing and directing have always been intertwined, and sitting at a laptop typing out a script is only a small part of the making of a show. I was so pleased to be asked to run this for a new writing theatre, as so often in the UK the word “devising” sets off alarm bells for buildings as inherently risky, incoherent, or overly abstract, and totally separate from the serious literary business of real plays. In fact I think some of the best written and most powerful plays have come out of processes that involve some degree of collaborative and practical “making”, with the text developing throughout the process. We’re not going to be acting like a shoal of fish or lifting each other (I could try but I would probably drop you). We ARE going to be exploring strategies for making new work through games, exercises, improvisation and even, yes, putting pen to paper. For people who think of themselves as writers, directors, performers, or none of the above. (Sadly I don’t have a monochrome picture of myself waving my hands around in a rehearsal room so instead please enjoy this picture of me in tech @royalcourttheatre with the emotional support Boss Lady mug)

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40 and fabulous ✨ celebrating my amazing @alistairhallyes 🎈

“Even the most well-meaningly clueless people no longer ask us whether After the Act is about how far we’ve come” As After the Act, @breach_theatre ’s verbatim musical about Section 28, opens at the @royalcourttheatre , one of its creators Billy Barrett reflects on how, even three years on from when they started working on the show, we’re already in a different era for LGBTQ+ rights Many thanks to @billyjackbarrett for his words. 📸: Alex Brenner

As Dido once sang … I’ve always thought that I would love to live by the sea

NT directors course 2024! Thanks Nash for two truly transformative weeks with these 12 amazing directors & some all-time theatre greats 🍉🎾🚪✨

After the Act is available now from @nickhernbooks 📚 and starts its tour tonight @liveveryplay ❤️ Proud of our work @ellicestevens @misterfrew and the many collaborators & contributors who helped create the show. Thanks for having us at NHB @madeleine_lily !