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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Half Me, Half You Q&A video and photos: It’s not easy to talk about racism & hate crime, but it’s necessary
Half Me, Half You Q&A video and photos: It’s not easy to talk about racism & hate crime, but it’s necessary

Half Me, Half You Q&A video and photos: It’s not easy to talk about racism & hate crime, but it’s necessary

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T23:37:11+00:002 April 2019|Tags: Half Me Half You, Kalea Williams, Laura Shipler Chico, Leah Fogo, Liane Grant, Maria Friedman, Rol'n Productions, Stop Hate UK, Terri Paddock events, Toccarra Cash, Tristan Bates Theatre|

Did seeing fascist Tommy Robinson denouncing Muslims and immigrants on a big screen in Whitehall terrify you? What are the long-term consequences of today's political rhetoric in Trump's America and Brexit Britain?

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Q&A photos and video: Talking chemsex, HIV positivity & intimacy at Undetectable
Q&A photos and video: Talking chemsex, HIV positivity & intimacy at Undetectable

Q&A photos and video: Talking chemsex, HIV positivity & intimacy at Undetectable

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T23:41:16+00:0021 March 2019|Tags: Chemsex, King's Head Theatre, LGBT, LGBTQ, My Dad's Gap Year, New writing, Off-West End, Post-show Q&As, Rikki Beadle-Blair, Terri Paddock events, Tom Wright|

Why is intimacy so hard? In the bedroom, when can drugs be a help and when a hindrance? How much should we reveal to a new partner? What new demons do today's young gay men carry with them into relationships?

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Post-show forum: Taking the All in a Row controversy & conversation offline
Post-show forum: Taking the All in a Row controversy & conversation offline

Post-show forum: Taking the All in a Row controversy & conversation offline

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-26T00:04:09+00:0022 February 2019|Tags: Alex Oates, Autism, Charlie Brooks, Dominic Shaw, Hugh Purves, Michael Fox, Post-show Q&As, Simon Lipkin, Southwark Playhouse, Terri Paddock events|

A lot has been said about All in a Row online (especially on Twitter around #puppetgate) - about the play itself, its depiction of autism and its use of a puppet in portraying the non-verbal autistic 11-year-old character. Last night we were able to take the conversation offline.

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