Where We Began Q&A video and photos: Should where we’re born define where we end up?
Where We Began Q&A video and photos: Should where we’re born define where we end up?

Where We Began Q&A video and photos: Should where we’re born define where we end up?

By Terri Paddock|2020-02-01T21:47:21+00:0024 September 2018|Tags: HighTide Festival, John Tomlinson, Political plays, politics, Post-show Q&As, Rernanda Mandagara, Rosie MacPherson, Shireen Farkhoy, Stand & Be Counted Theatre, Tafadzwa Muchenje, Terri Paddock events, Where We Began, Zoe Katsilerou|

Should country of birth define your identity or determine where you end up? Set in the near-future, Stand and Be Counted Theatre's highly political new play Where We Began imagines a world where a new universal law mandates that everyone must return to where they were born and stay there.

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My top #theatre2016 plays, musicals & performances
My top #theatre2016 plays, musicals & performances

My top #theatre2016 plays, musicals & performances

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T12:50:34+00:0029 December 2016|Tags: #Shakespeare400, #theatre2016, Amanda Muggelton, Amanda Muggleton, Beyond the Fence, Buried Child, Charlie Stemp, Charlotte Hope, Dead Funny, Denise Gough, Deny Deny Deny, Eddie Izzard, Elegy, Force Majeure, Funny Girl, Gemma Arterton, Groundhog Day, Guys & Dolls, Half a Sixpence, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Her Aching Heart, HighTide Festival, How the Other Half Loves, Jane Wenham, Jekyll & Hyde, Jesus Christ Superstar, Lucy Williamson, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Mrs Henderson Presents, Murder Ballad, Nell Gwynn, One Night in Miami, People Places and Things, Pink Mist, School of Rock, She Loves Me, Sheridan Smith, Show Boat, Steel Magnolias, The Boys in the Band, The Buskers Opera, The Go-Between, The Last Five Years, The Spoils, Tis Pity She's a Whore, Tom Hollander, Tonight with Donny Stixx, Tyrone Huntley, Welcome Home Captain Fox, Year in review|

Ahead of rounding up various publications #theatre2016 highlights, I’m taking a moment to reflect on

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Photos and podcast: Sharing joy with debut playwright Theresa Ikoko and her Girls
Photos and podcast: Sharing joy with debut playwright Theresa Ikoko and her Girls

Photos and podcast: Sharing joy with debut playwright Theresa Ikoko and her Girls

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T21:56:53+00:0023 October 2016|Tags: Abiola Obunbiyi, Anita-Joy Uwajeh, Elayce Ismail, George Devine Award, Girls, HighTide Festival, Q&As, Soho Theatre, Talawa Theatre, Terri Paddock events, Theresa Ikoko, Yvette Boakye|

What an astonishing way to make your playwriting debut. Theresa Ikoko's first full-length play Girls was a Verity Bargate finalist and winner of both the Alfred Fagon Award and the George Devine Award.

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Photos and podcast: Climbing metaphorical mountains with Pilgrims playwright Elinor Cook
Photos and podcast: Climbing metaphorical mountains with Pilgrims playwright Elinor Cook

Photos and podcast: Climbing metaphorical mountains with Pilgrims playwright Elinor Cook

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T22:34:58+00:0027 September 2016|Tags: Amanda Wilkin, Elinor Cook, HighTide Festival, Pilgrims, Steffan Donnelly, Terri Paddock events, Theatre Clwyd, Vicky Graham, Yard Theatre|

Critic Matt Trueman described Elinor Cook's Pilgrims, about a pair of young mountain climbers, as the "peak of playwriting". I got to talk mountains, metaphors and much more with this whipsmart George Devine Award-winning playwright.

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#HighTide2016 photos and podcast: Alexi Kaye Campbell, Elizabeth McGovern and Ben Miles
#HighTide2016 photos and podcast: Alexi Kaye Campbell, Elizabeth McGovern and Ben Miles

#HighTide2016 photos and podcast: Alexi Kaye Campbell, Elizabeth McGovern and Ben Miles

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-28T17:30:01+00:0012 September 2016|Tags: Alexi Kaye Campbell, Ben Miles, Downton Abbey, Elizabeth McGovern, HighTide Festival, Hilary Mantel, National Theatre, Podcasts, Sunset at the Villa Thalia, Terri Paddock events, The Pride, Wolf Hall|

I made my HighTide Festival debut this weekend and what a privilege. Over the course of the weekend at this ten-day annual event, I had the privilege of chairing three hour-long "Face to Face" talks with world-class artists.

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