A Single Man post-show video and photos: Can you die of a broken heart?
A Single Man post-show video and photos: Can you die of a broken heart?

A Single Man post-show video and photos: Can you die of a broken heart?

By Terri Paddock|2023-02-27T12:08:08+00:0027 October 2022|Tags: A Single Man, Ashley Cook, Christopher Isherwood, Park Theatre, Philip Wilson, Troupe Theatre|

Cinemagoers know A Single Man from the 2009 film starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. Troupe Theatre's new adaptation strips the story back to its essence and the beautiful language of Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel.

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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 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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The Shark Is Broken: This play has helped me conquer a life-long fear
The Shark Is Broken: This play has helped me conquer a life-long fear

The Shark Is Broken: This play has helped me conquer a life-long fear

By Terri Paddock|2021-12-05T15:57:25+00:005 December 2021|Tags: Demetri Goritsas, Guy Masterson, Ian Shaw, Liam Murray Scott, The Shark Is Broken|

I was fascinated by the story behind the play telling the story behind the film. The Shark Is Broken is the brainchild of Ian Shaw who co-wrote it and stars as his own late father Robert Shaw.

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