Stephen Fry throws support behind young Australian playwright

Actor, writer and TV host Stephen Fry promotes 17 year old playwright, crashes atyp’s Fresh Ink website.
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Actor, writer and TV host Stephen Fry promotes 17 year old playwright, crashes atyp’s Fresh Ink website.

Twitter giant Stephen Fry, who boasts 5,717,143 followers on the popular social media platform, has helped popularise The Language of Love, a short film written by emerging Sydney playwright Kim Ho, 17.

Fry’s tweet on 20 April praising The Language of Love as ‘Amazing!’ caused the website hosting the film to crash due to the high level of traffic generated by Fry’s followers.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts