One Who Wants to Cross post-show video and photos: How is the truth about migrants misrepresented?
One Who Wants to Cross post-show video and photos: How is the truth about migrants misrepresented?

One Who Wants to Cross post-show video and photos: How is the truth about migrants misrepresented?

By Terri Paddock|2023-02-22T15:34:42+00:009 February 2023|Tags: Finborough Theatre, Marc-Emmanuel Soriano, Ola Teniola, One Who Wants To Cross, Post-show talks, Terri Paddock events, Wisdom Iheamo|

A note in the programme for One Who Wants to Cross cites a sobering statistic: according to the 2020 IOM World Migration Report, the number of international migrants, as of June 2019, had reached almost 272 million.

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One Who Wants to Cross
One Who Wants to Cross

One Who Wants to Cross

By Terri Paddock|2023-02-09T12:40:03+00:008 February 2023|Tags: Alice Hamilton, Finborough Theatre, One Who Wants To Cross|

I'm at London's Finborough Theatre in February for the UK premiere of Marc-Emmanuel Soriano's multi-award-winning French play One Who Wants to Cross (Un Qui Veut Traverser), directed by Alice Hamiton.

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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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Bacon
Bacon

Bacon

By Terri Paddock|2022-03-20T21:43:45+00:0023 March 2022|Tags: Bacon, Corey Montague-Sholay, Finborough Theatre, Matthew Iliffe, Sophie Swithinbank, William Robinson|

Following a slew of ★★★★★ reviews, Sophie Swithinbank's award-winning new play Bacon has extended by a week at London's Finborough Theatre due to popular demand - and added this unmissable post-show Q&A with the team, chaired by yours truly.

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Square Rounds Q&A video and photos: Sharing drinks and views on destruction
Square Rounds Q&A video and photos: Sharing drinks and views on destruction

Square Rounds Q&A video and photos: Sharing drinks and views on destruction

By Terri Paddock|2020-02-01T21:52:52+00:0019 September 2018|Tags: Amy Marchant, Finborough Theatre, First World War, Gracy Goldman, Jimmy Walters, Letty Thomas, Philippa Quinn, Post-show Q&As, Proud Haddock, Rujenne Green, Square Rounds, Terri Paddock events, Tony Harrison, World War One, WWI|

The pub beneath the Finborough Theatre, where Proud Haddock's revival of Tony Harrison's Square Rounds, is currently closed for refurbishment. So what does Proud Haddock artistic director Jimmy Walters do on the night of our post-show Q&A? Bring in drinks from the off-licence.

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Q&A video and podcast: Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Nanking massacre at Into the Numbers
Q&A video and podcast: Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Nanking massacre at Into the Numbers

Q&A video and podcast: Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Nanking massacre at Into the Numbers

By Terri Paddock|2020-02-02T00:02:38+00:0011 January 2018|Tags: Amy Molloy, Arsalan Sattari, Christopher Chen, Elizabeth Chan, Finborough Theatre, Georgie Staight, Into the Numbers, Iris Chang, Mark Ota, Terri Paddock events, The Rape of Nanking, Timothy Knightley|

What an incredibly brave, brilliant and inspiring woman Iris Chang was. What an unimaginably horrific atrocity the Nanking Massacre was. How ashamed I am to have known next to nothing about either before Into the Numbers.

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Q&A video and photos: Talking faith vs family with The Busy World is Hushed cast
Q&A video and photos: Talking faith vs family with The Busy World is Hushed cast

Q&A video and photos: Talking faith vs family with The Busy World is Hushed cast

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T15:24:27+00:003 November 2017|Tags: Arsalan Sattari, Finborough Theatre, Kazia Pelka, Keith Bunin, Mateo Oxley, Michael James, Paul Higgins, Playwrights' Horizons, Terri Paddock events, The Busy World Is Hushed|

Can we love someone whose belief system we fundamentally disagree with? If we love someone, can we denounce what we believe just to please them? Family and faith compete in thoughtful three-hander The Busy World Is Hushed.

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Q&A podcast and photos: Confronting bullies with the Late Company cast
Q&A podcast and photos: Confronting bullies with the Late Company cast

Q&A podcast and photos: Confronting bullies with the Late Company cast

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T16:16:48+00:0024 August 2017|Tags: Alex Lowe, Bullying, CALM, David Leopold, Finborough Theatre, Jordan Tannahill, Late Company, Lisa Stevenson, Lucy Robinson, Male suicide, Michael Yale, Stage Traffic, Terri Paddock events, Todd Boyce, Trafalgar Studios|

Having heard so many of My Theatre Mates raving about Late Company following its European premiere earlier this year at the Finborough, I was really looking forward to seeing it at Trafalgar Studios. And yet, I still came under-prepared: I didn't bring enough tissues.

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