Acts of theatre resistance: Insignificance, The Lorax, Young Marx, Imagine This, Bernarda Alba
Acts of theatre resistance: Insignificance, The Lorax, Young Marx, Imagine This, Bernarda Alba

Acts of theatre resistance: Insignificance, The Lorax, Young Marx, Imagine This, Bernarda Alba

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T12:44:13+00:007 November 2017|Tags: Alice Bailey-Johnson, Bridge Theatre, Cervantes Theatre, Clive Coleman, David Mercatali, Donald Trump, Dr Seuss, Imagine This, Insignificance, Lorca, Mary Conlon, Nancy Carroll, Nicholas Hytner, Old Vic Theatre, Oliver Chris, Richard Bean, Rory Kinnear, Terry Johnson, The House of Bernarda Alba, The Lorax, Tom Mannion, Trump, Union Theatre|

Clockwise from top left: Young Marx, The House of Bernarda Alba, Insignificance, Imagine This

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Podcast and photos: Ian McDiarmid and What Shadows cast on Enoch Powell and THAT speech
Podcast and photos: Ian McDiarmid and What Shadows cast on Enoch Powell and THAT speech

Podcast and photos: Ian McDiarmid and What Shadows cast on Enoch Powell and THAT speech

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T15:40:51+00:0011 October 2017|Tags: Ameet Chana, Amelia Donkor, Birmingham Rep, Brexit, Donald Trump, Enoch Powell, Ian McDiarmid, Joanne Pearce, Park Theatre, Paula Wilcox, Rivers of Blood speech, Terri Paddock events, What Shadows|

How do we talk to those that we hate? How do we speak across the anger that divides us? Those are the opening lines in Chris Hannan's provocative new play, What Shadows - and they were also amongst the questions raised at my post-show Q&A.

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My (non-Edinburgh) theatre diary: Salad Days, Mrs Orwell, Boom and Cowboy Rufus
My (non-Edinburgh) theatre diary: Salad Days, Mrs Orwell, Boom and Cowboy Rufus

My (non-Edinburgh) theatre diary: Salad Days, Mrs Orwell, Boom and Cowboy Rufus

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-08T09:55:47+00:0022 August 2017|Tags: Announcement Productions, Boom, Bryan Hodgson, Cameron Mackintosh, Cressida Brown, Donald Trump, Jimmy Walters, Joanne McShane, Julian Slade, King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe, London Theatre Workshop, Old Red Lion Theatre, Patrick Kennedy, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, Proud Haddock, Richard Foreman, Salad Days, Sienna Miller, StageFaves, Theatre503, Tony Cox, Union Theatre|

Clockwise from top left: Mrs Orwell, Salad Days, Boom and King Cowboy Rufus Rules

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Q&A photos and podcast: A return to Brechtian politics via The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Q&A photos and podcast: A return to Brechtian politics via The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Q&A photos and podcast: A return to Brechtian politics via The Caucasian Chalk Circle

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T18:45:24+00:0031 March 2017|Tags: Bertolt Brecht, Brecht, Brexit, Donald Trump, EU Referendum, Greenwich Theatre, Ricky Dukes, Sara Reimers, Stephen Unwin, Terri Paddock events, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Trumpism, Zack Polanski|

What would Bertolt Brecht have made of Donald Trump? Brecht's "epic theatre" was sparked by the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany. Many pundits have likened the political period we've now entered with that dark decade of the twentieth century.

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