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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|Tags: Elizabeth Eleazar, Elizabeth McGovern, Jim Norton, Matthew Broderick, Post-show Q&As, Sid Sagar, Sinead Matthews, Terri Paddock events|

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|Tags: Greenwich Theatre, Lazarus Theatre, Lord of the Flies, Oscar Wilde, Post-show Q&As, Ricky Dukes, Salome, Terri Paddock events, The Tempest|

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|Tags: Alix Sobler, Coronet Theatre, Elizabeth Rossiter, Gabriel Prokofiev, Grace Molony, Laurence Ubong Williams, Max Key, Suzan Sylvester, Terri Paddock events, The Glass Piano, Timothy Walker|

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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Bromley Bedlam Bethlehem Q&A video and photos: How to turn traumatic family history into life-affirming drama
Bromley Bedlam Bethlehem Q&A video and photos: How to turn traumatic family history into life-affirming drama

Bromley Bedlam Bethlehem Q&A video and photos: How to turn traumatic family history into life-affirming drama

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T23:03:47+00:008 May 2019|Tags: Bromley Bedlam Bethlehem, Dan Mullane, Daniel Rainford, Georgia de Grey, Hannah Tookey, Hollie Buhagiar, Madeleine Bowyer, Old Red Lion Theatre, Pete Maxey, Rachel Tookey, Terri Paddock events, Thomas Martin, Voxie Productions|

Ahead of Mental Health Awareness Week next week, Rachel Tookey's award-winning new play Bromley Bedlam Bethlehem receives its full-length premiere this week at the Old Red Lion Theatre.

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Heroes Q&A video and photos: Raise your hand if you think David Bowie fandom transcends generations
Heroes Q&A video and photos: Raise your hand if you think David Bowie fandom transcends generations

Heroes Q&A video and photos: Raise your hand if you think David Bowie fandom transcends generations

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T23:09:37+00:001 May 2019|Tags: Bebe Barry, Ben Woodhall, David Bowie, Drayton Arms Theatre, Exploding Whale Theatre, Featured Show, MyTheatreMates, Terri Paddock events|

Are you a David Bowie fan? What first turned you on? Was it seeing his Top of the Pops debut as Ziggy Stardust? Was it your parents taking you to your first Bowie concert when you were still a baby? Was it memorising the album liner notes in your bedroom?

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Panel on the RSC’s gender-flipped Taming of the Shrew: Kate & Petruchio in the age of #MeToo
Panel on the RSC’s gender-flipped Taming of the Shrew: Kate & Petruchio in the age of #MeToo

Panel on the RSC’s gender-flipped Taming of the Shrew: Kate & Petruchio in the age of #MeToo

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T23:23:40+00:0029 April 2019|Tags: Claire Price, Dr Emma Whipday, Joan Iyiola, Joseph Arkley, Justin Audibert, Royal Shakespeare Company, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon, Terri Paddock events, The Other Place, The Taming of the Shrew|

I had a fabulous time last week in Stratford-upon-Avon seeing Justin Audibert’s new re-gendered production of Shakespeare’s early “battle of the sexes” comedy The Taming of the Shrew (1591), set in a parallel Elizabethan universe where women are in charge.

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Q&A video and photos: How is Donald Trump responsible for Other People’s Money?
Q&A video and photos: How is Donald Trump responsible for Other People’s Money?

Q&A video and photos: How is Donald Trump responsible for Other People’s Money?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T23:19:34+00:0022 April 2019|Tags: Danny DeVito, Featured Show, Katharine Farmer, Michael Brandon, Off-West End, Other People's Money, Rob Locke, Southwark Playhouse, Terri Paddock events|

I've spent quite a lot of my Easter weekend thinking about Donald Trump. As a thankful respite from trying to read the 448 pages of the Mueller Report, it was for positive reasons on Good Friday night at Southwark Playhouse.

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Intra Muros Q&A video and photos: What is the point of theatre? How do actors marry up their dual lives?
Intra Muros Q&A video and photos: What is the point of theatre? How do actors marry up their dual lives?

Intra Muros Q&A video and photos: What is the point of theatre? How do actors marry up their dual lives?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T23:20:59+00:0014 April 2019|Tags: Alexis Michalik, Che Walker, Cry Havoc, Declan Perring, Emma Pallant, Park Theatre, Post-show Q&As, Rio Kai, Summer Strallen, Terri Paddock events, Victor Gardener|

What does theatre mean to you? How do actors marry up the dual emotional demands of their chosen profession? How many 'characters' or versions of ourselves to the rest of us play in our own lives?

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Q&A video and photos: Overturning the ‘white saviour’ narrative with the Cry Havoc company
Q&A video and photos: Overturning the ‘white saviour’ narrative with the Cry Havoc company

Q&A video and photos: Overturning the ‘white saviour’ narrative with the Cry Havoc company

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T23:28:32+00:009 April 2019|Tags: Cry Havoc, James El Sharawy, Karen Winchester, Marc Antolin, Pamela Schermann, Park Theatre, Post-show Q&As, Terri Paddock events, TimeZone Theatre, Tom Coash|

How lucky am I? Last night I got to spend a second night in a row with lovely Olivier Awards nominee Marc Antolin, now starring in new play Cry Havoc at the Park Theatre.

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Tony’s Last Tape Q&A video and photos: What would Tony Benn have thought of Brexit, Corbyn & this play about him?
Tony’s Last Tape Q&A video and photos: What would Tony Benn have thought of Brexit, Corbyn & this play about him?

Tony’s Last Tape Q&A video and photos: What would Tony Benn have thought of Brexit, Corbyn & this play about him?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T23:32:41+00:006 April 2019|Tags: Andy Barrett, Giles Croft, Nottingham Playhouse, Omnibus Theatre, Philip Bretherton, Terri Paddock events, Tony Benn, Tony's Last Tape|

This past Wednesday (3 April 2019) would have been Tony Benn's 94th birthday. Great celebratory timing for the return of Tony's Last Tape, the one-man play celebrating the Labour firebrand, who died in 2014.

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