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The End of the Night post-show video and photos: How should theatre tackle difficult historical subjects?
The End of the Night post-show video and photos: How should theatre tackle difficult historical subjects?

The End of the Night post-show video and photos: How should theatre tackle difficult historical subjects?

By Terri Paddock|2022-09-09T15:00:32+01:0027 May 2022|Tags: Ben Brown, Kurt Barling, Original Theatre, Park Theatre, Post-show Q&As, Terri Paddock events, The End of the Night|

Set in the final days of World War II, new play The End of the Night centres around the true but little-known secret meeting between Norbert Masur, a Swedish Jew and volunteer member of the World Jewish Congress, and Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler, the mass-murdering architect of Hitler's final solution.

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Jo & Sam Find Themselves in Woking post-show video and photos: Searching for millennial meaning in relationships
Jo & Sam Find Themselves in Woking post-show video and photos: Searching for millennial meaning in relationships

Jo & Sam Find Themselves in Woking post-show video and photos: Searching for millennial meaning in relationships

By Terri Paddock|2022-05-27T13:05:05+01:0012 April 2022|Tags: Hen & Chickens Theatre, James Woolf, Jo and Sam Find Themselves in Woking, Katherine Reilly, Kieran Dee, Phoebe Marshall|

Meeting the right person and starting a new relationship is hard enough, but when you also have to do it in rhyming couplets while searching for the meaning of your life... in Woking - well, it's that much more challenging.

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Bacon post-show video and photos: Balancing on the see-saw of power in a toxic relationship
Bacon post-show video and photos: Balancing on the see-saw of power in a toxic relationship

Bacon post-show video and photos: Balancing on the see-saw of power in a toxic relationship

By Terri Paddock|2022-04-12T10:37:07+01:0024 March 2022|Tags: Bacon, Corey Montague-Sholay, Finborough Theatre, Matthew Iliffe, New writing, Sophie Swithinbank, William Robinson|

The spark of an idea for award-winning new two-hander Bacon, now in its extended world premiere season at London's Finborough Theatre, came when playwright Sophie Swithinbank, then working as a nanny, witnessed a bullying incident between two boys in a park.

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Wildcard’s Tempest post-show video and photos: Shakespeare like you’ve never experienced it before
Wildcard’s Tempest post-show video and photos: Shakespeare like you’ve never experienced it before

Wildcard’s Tempest post-show video and photos: Shakespeare like you’ve never experienced it before

By Terri Paddock|2022-03-24T12:13:14+00:0023 March 2022|Tags: Pleasance Theatre, Post-show Q&As, Shakespeare, Tempest, Terri Paddock events, The Tempest, Wildcard Theatre|

Wildcard Theatre promises "Shakespeare like you have never experienced it before", and they deliver in spades with this new gig-style reinvention of The Tempest in the perfect setting of the Pleasance's cabaret-configured main house.

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Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon post-show video and photos: What advice would you give your 13-year-old self?
Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon post-show video and photos: What advice would you give your 13-year-old self?

Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon post-show video and photos: What advice would you give your 13-year-old self?

By Terri Paddock|2022-03-23T15:16:04+00:0016 February 2022|Tags: Georgie Staight, Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon, Katy Galloway, New writing, Rosie Day, Southwark Playhouse, The Girl Who Fell|

Rosie Day's wonderful rollercoaster ride of a debut play Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon, which she also performs, ends with the by-then 16-year-old protagonist writing a letter of advice to her younger self (and younger stepsister).

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Operation Mincemeat: Oh my god, this World War II escapade actually happened?
Operation Mincemeat: Oh my god, this World War II escapade actually happened?

Operation Mincemeat: Oh my god, this World War II escapade actually happened?

By Terri Paddock|2022-02-13T23:27:43+00:0013 February 2022|Tags: David Cummings, Musicals, Operation Mincemeat, Southwark Playhouse, SpitLip|

I have a sneaking suspicion that we have not seen the last of this little musical gem, which is - incredibly - inspired by a real-life World War II espionage episode demonstrating British pluck and eccentricity in spades.

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Freud’s Last Session post-show video and photos: Do you believe in the existence of God?
Freud’s Last Session post-show video and photos: Do you believe in the existence of God?

Freud’s Last Session post-show video and photos: Do you believe in the existence of God?

By Terri Paddock|2022-02-16T18:59:07+00:0026 January 2022|Tags: Dr Julian Bird, Freud's Last Session, King's Head Theatre, Mark St Germain, Sean Browne|

Mark St Germain's play Freud's Last Session, first seen Off-Broadway in 2010 and now receiving its European premiere at London's King's Head Theatre, pits two of the 20th-century greatest thinkers, Sigmund Freud and CS Lewis, to discuss life's biggest questions, including "Does God exist?"

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Dog Show video and photos: What do humans have in common with canines?
Dog Show video and photos: What do humans have in common with canines?

Dog Show video and photos: What do humans have in common with canines?

By Terri Paddock|2022-01-26T12:38:01+00:003 December 2021|Tags: Azara, David Cumming, Dog Show, Escape from Planet Trash, Ginger Johnson, How to Catch a Krampus, Mahatma Khandi, Pleasance Theatre, Rudy Jeevanjee|

At my last Christmas Q&A at the Pleasance Theatre, for sci-fi spoof Escape from Planet Trash way back in December 2019, Ginger Johnson shared a tantalising teaser about her idea for her next offering: "Like Cats, but Dogs".

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Empty in Angel post-show video and photos: Why are unions more important than ever in the gig economy?
Empty in Angel post-show video and photos: Why are unions more important than ever in the gig economy?

Empty in Angel post-show video and photos: Why are unions more important than ever in the gig economy?

By Terri Paddock|2021-12-03T17:25:36+00:0021 November 2021|Tags: Darcy Willison, Empty in Angel, James Woolf, Katherine Reilly, New writing, Old Red Lion Theatre|

Here's the brutal truth about many of our rights: we only really have them if we have the wherewithal to fight for them when they're trampled on. That's certainly the case when it comes to employment rights.

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Marlowe’s Fate post-show video and photos: Who really wrote William Shakespeare’s plays?
Marlowe’s Fate post-show video and photos: Who really wrote William Shakespeare’s plays?

Marlowe’s Fate post-show video and photos: Who really wrote William Shakespeare’s plays?

By Terri Paddock|2021-11-21T17:34:32+00:0012 November 2021|Tags: Christopher Marlowe, Marlowe's Fate, Peter Hodges, White Bear Theatre, William Shakespeare|

More than four centuries after William Shakespeare died in 1616, aged 52 on his own birthday (23 April), questions remain about the authorship of his prodigious output - including nearly forty plays and more than 150 sonnets.

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