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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Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon
Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon

Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon

By Terri Paddock|2022-01-27T23:14:28+00:0015 February 2022|Tags: Georgie Staight, Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon, Rosie Day, Southwark Playhouse, The Girl Who Fell|

Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon, the sell-out solo show written and performed by Rosie Day that also spawned the non-fiction guide of the same name, returns to London for a limited run at Southwark Playhouse.

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Operation Mincemeat: Oh my god, this World War II escapade actually happened?
Operation Mincemeat: Oh my god, this World War II escapade actually happened?

Operation Mincemeat: Oh my god, this World War II escapade actually happened?

By Terri Paddock|2022-02-13T23:27:43+00:0013 February 2022|Tags: David Cummings, Musicals, Operation Mincemeat, Southwark Playhouse, SpitLip|

I have a sneaking suspicion that we have not seen the last of this little musical gem, which is - incredibly - inspired by a real-life World War II espionage episode demonstrating British pluck and eccentricity in spades.

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Indecent Proposal
Indecent Proposal

Indecent Proposal

By Terri Paddock|2021-10-02T17:33:28+01:0028 October 2021|Tags: Indecent Proposal, Musicals, New musicals, Southwark Playhouse|

Nineties gender-politics thriller Indecent Proposal gets a modern #MeToo makeover in a brand-new British musical - with book and lyrics by Michael Conley, music by Dylan Schlosberg - at London's Southwark Playhouse.

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The Last Five Years: The piano is the new star in Jason Robert Brown’s two-hander
The Last Five Years: The piano is the new star in Jason Robert Brown’s two-hander

The Last Five Years: The piano is the new star in Jason Robert Brown’s two-hander

By Terri Paddock|2021-09-27T11:09:49+01:0027 September 2021|Tags: Aria Entertainment, Garrick Theatre, Jason Robert Brown, Jonathan O'Boyle, Katy Lipson, Molly Lynch, Musicals, Oli Higginson, Southwark Playhouse, The Last Five Years, West End|

There's a line in The Last Five Years, Jason Robert Brown's semi-autobiographical musical two-hander about a relationship breakdown, that gets me every time.

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Salome post-show video and photos: Revisiting Oscar Wilde’s once-banned erotic classic
Salome post-show video and photos: Revisiting Oscar Wilde’s once-banned erotic classic

Salome post-show video and photos: Revisiting Oscar Wilde’s once-banned erotic classic

By Terri Paddock|2021-09-11T11:38:47+01:002 September 2021|Tags: Fred Thomas, George Ray-Turner, Omi Mantri, Oscar Wilde, Pauline Babula, Plays, Salome, Southwark Playhouse|

How far are you willing to go to get what you most desire? That’s the question at the bloody heart of Salome. And it’s a question that so fascinates Lazarus Theatre that they’re now having a third go at Oscar Wilde’s provocative 1891 tragedy.

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Salome
Salome

Salome

By Terri Paddock|2021-07-10T19:49:05+01:001 September 2021|Tags: Lazarus Theatre, Plays, Salome, Southwark Playhouse|

Post-lockdown, Lazarus Theatre returns to the stage with a revival of their 2019 gender-twist version of Oscar Wilde's Salome at London's Southwark Playhouse.

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John & Jen: Rachel Tucker is the only incentive musical theatre fans should need
John & Jen: Rachel Tucker is the only incentive musical theatre fans should need

John & Jen: Rachel Tucker is the only incentive musical theatre fans should need

By Terri Paddock|2021-08-04T10:06:49+01:004 August 2021|Tags: John & Jen, Lewis Cornay, Musicals, Off-West End, Rachel Tucker, Southwark Playhouse|

As much as I was looking for any excuse to return to Southwark, it was the show that lured me back. Or to be more precise, Rachel Tucker starring in the show, musical two-hander John & Jen.

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Indecent Proposal (postponed)
Indecent Proposal (postponed)

Indecent Proposal (postponed)

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T12:20:48+00:0015 June 2020|Tags: Indecent Proposal, New musicals, Southwark Playhouse, StageFaves|

Nineties gender-politics thriller Indecent Proposal gets a modern #MeToo makeover in a brand-new British musical - with book and lyrics by Michael Conley, music by Dylan Schlosberg - at London's Southwark Playhouse in June.

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COPS post-show video and photos: What is an “actor’s play” and why are there so few of them?
COPS post-show video and photos: What is an “actor’s play” and why are there so few of them?

COPS post-show video and photos: What is an “actor’s play” and why are there so few of them?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-26T19:54:16+00:0018 January 2020|Tags: COPS, Post-show Q&As, Southwark Playhouse, Terri Paddock events|

To me, COPS, set in 1950s Chicago, comes across as so authentically period that it feels like it must be a finely minted revival. But it’s not: it’s a new play. Even more surprising then that it’s written by an author I’d never heard of before.

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