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Post-show video and photos: Wrestling with absurdism, anthropomorphism & coercive control in Mites
Post-show video and photos: Wrestling with absurdism, anthropomorphism & coercive control in Mites

Post-show video and photos: Wrestling with absurdism, anthropomorphism & coercive control in Mites

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T15:35:27+00:0016 October 2019|

A philosophising cat, a famished dog and a family of mites all make appearances - and strong impressions - in Mites, a new play by young British playwright James Mannion, written in the best traditions of the Theatre of the Absurd.

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Danelaw Q&A video and photos: How do you find sympathy for white supremacists?
Danelaw Q&A video and photos: How do you find sympathy for white supremacists?

Danelaw Q&A video and photos: How do you find sympathy for white supremacists?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T15:56:37+00:0022 September 2019|

Can you be a racist if you don't think you are? Is there a difference between racism and 'racist attitudes'? How do you find sympathy for white supremacists? By finding sympathy are we making excuses?

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At Last Q&A video and photos: How worried are you about the direction the UK is heading?
At Last Q&A video and photos: How worried are you about the direction the UK is heading?

At Last Q&A video and photos: How worried are you about the direction the UK is heading?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T16:17:32+00:0013 September 2019|

Are you worried about the state of politics and society in the UK today? That's the question I asked at the start of last night's post-show Q&A at London's Lion & Unicorn Theatre. The hands of all my panellists and nearly everyone sitting across from them in the audience shot up.

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Q&A video and photos: What would Pete Buttigieg think of his Jekyll & Hyde incarnation?
Q&A video and photos: What would Pete Buttigieg think of his Jekyll & Hyde incarnation?

Q&A video and photos: What would Pete Buttigieg think of his Jekyll & Hyde incarnation?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T16:24:13+00:008 September 2019|

Arrows & Traps' 18th production in its five-year history is also its tenth at London's Brockley Jack Theatre, where it is now an associate company, and its third in a Gothic trilogy. And it's a corker.

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Q&A video and photos: Swapping worst date stories with Games for Lovers stars
Q&A video and photos: Swapping worst date stories with Games for Lovers stars

Q&A video and photos: Swapping worst date stories with Games for Lovers stars

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T21:19:13+00:008 August 2019|

After last week's runaway success with The Girl on the Train post-show Q&A, director Anthony Banks and I had to squeeze in another one together to his second current hit, Games for Lovers.

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The View Upstairs video and photos: What happened in New Orleans on 24 June 1973? Why should we remember?
The View Upstairs video and photos: What happened in New Orleans on 24 June 1973? Why should we remember?

The View Upstairs video and photos: What happened in New Orleans on 24 June 1973? Why should we remember?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T21:29:10+00:004 August 2019|

I had just enough time to wipe away my tears - I was sobbing - at the end of The View Upstairs before jumping up after the curtain call to announce this post-show Q&A at Soho Theatre.

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The Falcon’s Malteser Q&A video and photos: How to detect an Anthony Horowitz page-to-stage hit
The Falcon’s Malteser Q&A video and photos: How to detect an Anthony Horowitz page-to-stage hit

The Falcon’s Malteser Q&A video and photos: How to detect an Anthony Horowitz page-to-stage hit

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T22:02:14+00:0022 July 2019|

How did New Old Friends come to adapt Anthony Horowitz's 1986 children's novel The Falcon's Malteser into a hit family stage show? How has a new gender-equal, four-strong cast brought it to life for its London premiere?

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Q&A photos: Exploring the cosmos with Matthew Broderick, Elizabeth McGovern and The Starry Messenger cast
Q&A photos: Exploring the cosmos with Matthew Broderick, Elizabeth McGovern and The Starry Messenger cast

Q&A photos: Exploring the cosmos with Matthew Broderick, Elizabeth McGovern and The Starry Messenger cast

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T22:22:35+00:0019 June 2019|

How fitting to hold a post-show Q&A for The Starry Messenger during Loneliness Awareness Week. Kenneth Lonergan's beautifully delicate play considers the torment of, as New York Times' critic Ben Brantley puts it: "fallible, contradictory, lonely souls".

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Salome Q&A video and photos: What would the censor have made of this regendered version of Oscar Wilde’s play?
Salome Q&A video and photos: What would the censor have made of this regendered version of Oscar Wilde’s play?

Salome Q&A video and photos: What would the censor have made of this regendered version of Oscar Wilde’s play?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T22:50:19+00:0022 May 2019|

After The Tempest and Lord of the Flies, my last of three post-show Q&As with Lazarus Theatre company for their 2019 season at Greenwich Theatre was last night to their new version of Oscar Wilde's Salome.

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Q&A video and photos: Why is the Coronet the perfect home for The Glass Piano court tale?
Q&A video and photos: Why is the Coronet the perfect home for The Glass Piano court tale?

Q&A video and photos: Why is the Coronet the perfect home for The Glass Piano court tale?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T22:58:48+00:009 May 2019|

Visits to the Coronet Theatre, until last week known as The Print Room at the Coronet, make me miss the days when I lived in Notting Hill (or rather, near enough, Ladbroke Grove).

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