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Doctor Faustus post-show video and photos: What would make you sell your soul to the devil?
Doctor Faustus post-show video and photos: What would make you sell your soul to the devil?

Doctor Faustus post-show video and photos: What would make you sell your soul to the devil?

By Terri Paddock|2022-11-24T23:02:21+00:0015 September 2022|Tags: Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Jamie O'Neill, Lazarus Theatre, Ricky Dukes, Southwark Playhouse|

What might entice you to sell your soul to the devil? Fame? Riches? Immortality? World peace? A rent-free London flat? Four pints of Guinness? At my post-show Q&A for a production of Doctor Faustus, that was an irresistible question to pose to the company.

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Flashbang post-show video and photos: Celebrating life in the wake of shock and tragedy
Flashbang post-show video and photos: Celebrating life in the wake of shock and tragedy

Flashbang post-show video and photos: Celebrating life in the wake of shock and tragedy

By Terri Paddock|2022-09-16T11:09:13+01:009 September 2022|Tags: At Last, David Brady, Feel, Flashbang, Lately, Lion & Unicorn Theatre, Proforca Theatre|

The death of Queen Elizabeth II was announced just before my arrival at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre. Like the rest of the country, the theatre staff had been braced for the sad news. So the world premiere of Proforca's Flashbang was preceded by a public address and collective silence.

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The Lesson: If knowledge is power, does ignorance kill?
The Lesson: If knowledge is power, does ignorance kill?

The Lesson: If knowledge is power, does ignorance kill?

By Terri Paddock|2022-07-23T15:15:20+01:0019 July 2022|Tags: Eugene Ionesco, Icarus Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, The Lesson|

How do you cope in a world gone mad? That seems to me to be the central question in two of Romanian-French playwright Eugene Ionesco's one-act plays, The Lesson and The Chairs, written in the aftermath of the Second World War

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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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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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A Christmas Carol: It’s easy to see why this production has become an Old Vic tradition
A Christmas Carol: It’s easy to see why this production has become an Old Vic tradition

A Christmas Carol: It’s easy to see why this production has become an Old Vic tradition

By Terri Paddock|2021-12-05T15:29:41+00:006 December 2021|Tags: A Christmas Carol, Jack Shalloo, Jack Thorne, Matthew Warchus, Old Vic Theatre, Oli Higginson, Stephen Mangan|

I love Christmas. But for the past several years, I have struggled to summon the Christmas cheer that used to kick in for me the day after Thanksgiving (or, after so many years in the UK, by 1 December at the latest).

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