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The Tempest Q&A video and photos: What happens when Prospero & Miranda becomes a mother-son relationship?
The Tempest Q&A video and photos: What happens when Prospero & Miranda becomes a mother-son relationship?

The Tempest Q&A video and photos: What happens when Prospero & Miranda becomes a mother-son relationship?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-26T00:11:19+00:0013 February 2019|Tags: Aaron Peters, Abigail Clay, Alexander Da Fonseca, Conor Hadfield, David Clayton, Georgina Barley, Greenwich Theatre, James Alston, Lazarus Theatre, Lord of the Flies, Micha Colombo, Nell Hardy, Nikolas Salmon, Peace Oseyenum, Post-show Q&As, Ricky Dukes, Salome, Shakespeare, Terri Paddock events, The Tempest|

In my first of three post-show Q&As this year with Lazarus Theatre, I was at Greenwich Theatre for this pioneering ensemble company's exciting re-examination of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

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Q&A podcast and photos: What does Marlowe’s Edward II tell us about identity and gay rights?
Q&A podcast and photos: What does Marlowe’s Edward II tell us about identity and gay rights?

Q&A podcast and photos: What does Marlowe’s Edward II tell us about identity and gay rights?

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T16:07:26+00:001 September 2017|Tags: Angels in America, Christopher Marlowe, classics, Edward II, Elizabethan drama, Gay plays, gay theatre, Lazarus Theatre, Luke Ward-Wilkinson, Mark Woolgar, queer theatre, Ricky Dukes, Terri Paddock events, Tristan Bates Theatre, Zack Polanski|

The plays may have been written 420-odd years apart, but I was really struck by how many parallels there were between the discussion I hosted last week, to the European premiere of Jordan Tannahill's Late Company, and the one I hosted last night, to Christopher Marlowe's 16th-century classic Edward II.

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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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Photos and podcast: Nearly 300 years on, why does The Beggar’s Opera still resonate?
Photos and podcast: Nearly 300 years on, why does The Beggar’s Opera still resonate?

Photos and podcast: Nearly 300 years on, why does The Beggar’s Opera still resonate?

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T21:47:12+00:0016 November 2016|Tags: Bertolt Brecht, Brockley Jack Studio, Debates, John Gay, Lazarus Theatre, Michael Peavoy, Post-show Q&As, Ricky Dukes, Sara Reimers, Terri Paddock events, The Beggar's Opera, The Buskers Opera, The Threepenny Opera|

There's something in the water with The Beggar's Opera at the moment. Lazarus Theatre's new, modern-dress, 80-minute version at Brockley Jack Studio Theatre is the third major London presentation of the story of womanising highwayman Macheath this year.

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Photos and podcast: Breaking taboos at Lazarus ‘Tis Pity debate
Photos and podcast: Breaking taboos at Lazarus ‘Tis Pity debate

Photos and podcast: Breaking taboos at Lazarus ‘Tis Pity debate

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-28T21:38:05+00:0031 August 2016|Tags: Arden, John Ford, Lazarus Theatre, Ricky Dukes, Stage taboos, Terri Paddock events, Timothy Sheader, Tis Pity She's a Whore, Tristan Bates Theatre|

Are there any stage taboos left? John Ford's 17th-century romantic thriller 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, centring on an incestuous relationship between a brother and sister, is one of the most controversial in the classical canon. Does it still have the power to shock?

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Photos and podcast: The politics of theatre at The Caucasian Chalk Circle Q&A
Photos and podcast: The politics of theatre at The Caucasian Chalk Circle Q&A

Photos and podcast: The politics of theatre at The Caucasian Chalk Circle Q&A

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-28T23:07:36+00:0028 February 2016|Tags: @BobbyFriedman, @BrocJackTheatre, @CorbynMusical, @LazarusTheatre, @RoseUnwin, @RupertMyers, @WaterlooEast, Bertolt Brecht, Bobby Friedman, Brockley Jack Studio, Corbyn The Musical, Lazarus Theatre, Podcasts, Q&As, Ricky Dukes, Rupert Myers, Stephen Unwin, Terri Paddock events, The Caucasian Chalk Circle|

What's the difference between political theatre and theatre about politics? Can theatre be a catalyst for real change? Do right-wing political perspectives get a fair hearing onstage or is theatre the preserve of the left-wing?

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Photos and podcast: Why we should edit classics like Hamlet and Marlowe’s Tamburlaine

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-28T23:35:52+00:003 September 2015|Tags: Adam Cunis, Andy Kesson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Marlowe, Gavin Harrington-Odedra, Hamlet, Ken Pickering, Lazarus Theatre, Marlowe Society, Prince Plockey, Ricky Dukes, Sara Reimers, Tamburlaine the Great, Terri Paddock events, Tristan Bates Theatre|

A couple of weeks ago, as part of the ongoing Hamlet hysteria, I was amazed that such an apparent uproar was caused by director Lyndsey Turner's experimenting with the placement of the play's most famous soliloquy, "To be or not to be".

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