#circa

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Joan Baez traveling with The Beatles, ca. 1965.

#Joan Baez #John Lennon #George Harrison #The Beatles #circa #1965 #1960s #Paul McCartney #Ringo Starr

[marvelmaniac715]

Imagine being Hermes during the Odyssey/Epic. You’re wandering around, living your little god life, then some emotionally destroyed sailor arrives to the island you’re on and organises a search of the island with his men, and you decide to help him out because an INSANELY POWERFUL WITCH WITH AN ADDICTION TO TURNING MEN INTO NOT-MEN IS NEARBY so you hand him a little magic herb that is totally NOT weed so he can, like, live. Then you go on your merry way as the Divine Amazon service, then your dad calls you to rescue THE SAME DAMN GUY from ANOTHER insanely powerful woman, this time a nymph, only now you’re fully aware that your family is PISSED OFF at this poor man and the woman you’re trying to save him from is ALSO pissed off because he’s leaving. Then you fly away on your weird winged shoes, presumably thinking “Gods, it must suck to be that poor guy…”. Hey, at least Hermes seems to be having the time of his life when he gives Odysseus ✨Holy Moly✨, good for him.

#odyssey #odysseus #hermes #epic the musical #greek mythology #greek gods #circa #calypso #musical theatre

[777fawn]

#lana del rey #king kylie #2014 nostalgia #bring back 2014 #2014 tumblr #it girl #tumblr girl #circa

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

concorde supersonic airliner, circa 1985.

#gif #aviation #concorde #supersonic airliner #aerospatiale #circa #1985 #travel #glamour #a million years ago

[otmaaromanovas]

BRAND NEW photographs of the Grand Duchesses, found in the Darmstardt Archive

Shared by Ilya, @sledstvie on Instagram / LastRomanovs on Flickr, these photos show the Grand Duchesses having fun with their Uncle Ernie whilst on holiday in Livadia. Whilst a few photos from this day were found in the Grand Duchesses' albums (and hence known to the public) these funny photos were hidden away in archives!

A number of previously unknown, rare, and high-quality photographs have been uncovered in the Darmstardt Archives in the recent weeks.

#Olga Nikolaevna #Tatiana Nikolaevna #big pair #otma #romanov #romanov sisters #rare #new photos #Ernst of Hesse #Uncle Ernie #aunts and uncles #Livadia #having fun #circa #1911 #1912 #100

[wildoute]

#Mitla #Oaxaca #México #1925 #circa

[littlewormspatthegoblin]

this took a lot more effort than i’m proud to admit

#warhammer meme #age of sigmar #lizardmen #skink #seraphon #skaven #circa #shitty puns #that one cool but horrific scene from Enemy At The Gates #black and white

[all-or-nothing-baby]

i would let her do unspeakable things to me

#angela bassett #circa #strange days #she is hotter than the fucking sun #i remember LOSING MY SHIT when this film came out #both for her #and #ralph fiennes #bisexual heaven #anyways #like i said #i would let her do unspeakable things to me #lornette mace mason #mace mason #9 1 1 cast #athena grant #one of the hottest woman on the whole fucking planet #gah #bisexual posting #on main #ofc

[2001hz]

KISS, Gene Simmons (1975)

#2001hz #01hz #archive #2001hz archive #1975 #circa 1975 #circa #photography #kiss #gene simmons

[spencer-kicks]

These Circas are old.

But like all the kicks in my collection, I take care of them.

Still plenty of tread to leave marks on your face.

#circa #hightops #skateshoes #whatsonmyfeet #phoenix #kicks #kicksoftheday #todayskicks

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Joni Mitchell, ca. 1972 © Norman Seeff.

#Joni Mitchell #circa #1972 #1970s #Norman Seeff

[rememberthelaughtermp3]

my piece for ollie @dutchwinter's circa zine!!! she's done at last

#ez.txt #circa #my art

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

peppermint patty by charles m. schulz

#gif #peppermint patty #charles m. schulz #peanuts #circa #1979 #classic comic strip #important #iconic #influential

[otmaaromanovas]

Rare photograph of Tatiana Nikolaevna learning to rollerskate on the Standart

#Tatiana Nikolaevna #Tatiana Romanov #Standart #circa #1912 #having fun

[clove-pinks]

#interiors #milwaukee #wisconsin #1890s #circa #fin de siècle #house of my friend's dad! #art #the sea

[purpleyin]

A post about Freddy Carter in the 2016 play CIRCA, with some info about the play in here too.

If you repost pics from this elsewhere please remember to:

a) credit the photographer/photo source

and

b) mention me as having found them (I'm purpleyindom on insta if anyone reposts there) since it took a fair bit of time/effort to research this play.

Photo sources: tratcliffe15, 2 -__circa & 3 - the VAULTS performance crowdfunder page and others sources mentioned later

The play was written by Tom Ratcliffe who is friends with Freddy - he was at Oxford Drama School with Freddy, as well as starring in "The Wars of the Roses" (Rose Theatre) with him in 2015.

CIRCA was first performed as a sell-out research & development showing at the Old Red Lion Theatre, Islington in November 2015. After that a crowdfunding campaign was started to raise money for putting on the world premiere of the play in Amsterdam.

10 minutes of CIRCA were also performed as part of Wildcard Theatre's Christmas fundraiser December 1st 2015, with Freddy playing The First Love and Tom Ratcliffe playing The Young Man, and Jamie Jackson directing. Photographer: Ali Wright

Rehearsals for Amsterdam, with director Eleanor Clare Taylor in the 1st pic. Freddy plays The First Love.

Photo source: __circa

The Amsterdam performance happened 8th January 2016 as part of Festival Contact at the Theater de Meervaart. Some behind the scene shots + some more from the performance itself (EDIT: the lefthand side sofa pic I'd included is actually from the 2015 London performance instead - the righthand side one is the Amsterdam set).

Photo sources: - tratcliffe15, - JennieWestbrook, Rikki Beadle-Blair

Following Amsterdam, another crowdfunding campaign was started to raise money for the plays UK première as part of 2016 Pride in London. Here's pics for the readthrough, rehearsals & preview show. Freddy plays The First Love and The Younger Man.

Photo source: __circa

The play ran June 21st-25th, directed by Joe Allan, performed at The VAULTS, Waterloo. As mentioned by a londontheatre1, the actors changed into dark clothes to double up as stagehands like in pic 5. As far as I can tell there's no public recordings of the play, just a very brief insta reel of applause for one of the shows.

Photo sources: - tratcliffe15 , eskijoe + poster design & some pics by Eitan Bernat

CIRCA had another run in March 2019 - for 4 weeks this time - again at The Old Red Lion Theatre, with a smaller cast of 5: Antony Gabriel, Daniel Abelson, Jenna Fincken, Joseph Rowe, and Thomas Flynn. Maybe CIRCA will return sometime potentially but it seems unlikely it would be with Freddy again. I very much wish I could see it tbh but I'll probably have to satisfy myself buying the script sometime.

Photographer Lidia Crisafulli

For anyone curious about the play more generally, Tom Ratcliffe has interviews about the 2019 run linked on his website under 'Press' further down on his writer's CV page. There are reviews for the 2016 Vaults performance here. CIRCA is also published, and there were some quotes from the play released as part of promo tweets - they're behind the read more.

"That’s what everyone says isn't it? Gay men shag everything. Disease and all that. My mum, when I came out, the first thing she said to me was ‘don’t get AIDS'...But things are different now. They’ll be different for us." 

"Have you ever played the Game of Life?"

"Most people get to be happy with just one person. I don't see why I should have it any different."

"You have this thing where you don't let it define you... I'm not going to apologise"

"Everybody loves a drag queen but nobody will ever love a drag queen"

"No one sleeps with one person forever. You can't be so naive."

"This must be a dream."

#freddy carter #circa #uk theatre #lgbtq+ characters #circa 2016 #i wanted this to be better researched and referenced but ended up having to rush posting it so apologies for any mistakes #looks like the website went down between writing and posting this but I added the wayback link #the script book is now sold out so no reading it for me