Name: Doctor Faustus
Start: 2022-09-14T20:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-09-14T22:15:00+01:00
Location: Southwark Playhouse

The End of the Night post-show video and photos: How should theatre tackle difficult historical subjects?
The End of the Night post-show video and photos: How should theatre tackle difficult historical subjects?

The End of the Night post-show video and photos: How should theatre tackle difficult historical subjects?

By Terri Paddock|2022-05-27T13:04:45+01:0027 May 2022|

Set in the final days of World War II, new play The End of the Night centres around the true but little-known secret meeting between Norbert Masur, a Swedish Jew and volunteer member of the World Jewish Congress, and Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler, the mass-murdering architect of Hitler's final solution.

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Wildcard’s Tempest post-show video and photos: Shakespeare like you’ve never experienced it before
Wildcard’s Tempest post-show video and photos: Shakespeare like you’ve never experienced it before

Wildcard’s Tempest post-show video and photos: Shakespeare like you’ve never experienced it before

By Terri Paddock|2022-03-24T12:13:14+00:0023 March 2022|

Wildcard Theatre promises "Shakespeare like you have never experienced it before", and they deliver in spades with this new gig-style reinvention of The Tempest in the perfect setting of the Pleasance's cabaret-configured main house.

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Dog Show
Dog Show

Dog Show

By Terri Paddock|2021-11-13T16:08:14+00:002 December 2021|

After How to Catch a Krampus and Escape from Planet Trash, Ginger Johnson and her merry band of drag queens return to The Pleasance with a new alternative Christmas show, Dog Show. And I'm back for the hat-trick of Q&As.

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Tender Napalm
Tender Napalm

Tender Napalm

By Terri Paddock|2021-10-17T17:31:10+01:009 November 2021|

After Q&As to Tonight with Donny Stixx, Angry and Vincent River, I am thrilled to get my teeth into another Philip Ridley play: Lidless Theatre's tenth-anniversary revival of Tender Napalm.

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Vaudevilles post-show video and photos: Seeing the surprisingly funny side of Anton Chekhov
Vaudevilles post-show video and photos: Seeing the surprisingly funny side of Anton Chekhov

Vaudevilles post-show video and photos: Seeing the surprisingly funny side of Anton Chekhov

By Terri Paddock|2021-10-29T10:44:14+01:0028 October 2021|

Anton Chekhov is, of course, best known for his "big five" classic plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. None of which, though the author himself labelled them tragicomedies, are associated with hilarity.

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Anton Chekhov’s Vaudevilles
Anton Chekhov’s Vaudevilles

Anton Chekhov’s Vaudevilles

By Terri Paddock|2021-10-02T18:13:21+01:0027 October 2021|

I have huge respect for Mercurius Theatre and its artistic director Jenny Eastop, who I conducted a Zoom Q&A with during lockdown. I can't wait to do my make my in-person Mercurius Q&A 'debut' with Anton Chekhov's Vaudevilles.

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Snowflakes
Snowflakes

Snowflakes

By Terri Paddock|2021-09-12T17:45:10+01:001 October 2021|

After its pandemic postponement, biting black comedy Snowflakes, marking Dissident Theatre Company's debut, premieres this month at London's Old Red Lion Theatre.

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The Pleasure Garden
The Pleasure Garden

The Pleasure Garden

By Terri Paddock|2021-09-12T17:29:16+01:0029 September 2021|

Wildly funny new musical The Pleasure Garden takes a peek through the bushes to discover the bawdy history of Vauxhall's history as a hedonistic playground.

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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Zoom Q&As: Writers, director and stars on switching to streaming
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Zoom Q&As: Writers, director and stars on switching to streaming

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Zoom Q&As: Writers, director and stars on switching to streaming

By Terri Paddock|2021-05-09T19:18:06+01:0027 February 2021|

New British musical The Sorcerer's Apprentice has been five years in the making and, like all new musicals, has overcome myriad obstacles. Covid threw down an additional hurdle shortly before it was due to premiere at London's Southwark Playhouse: another lockdown.

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Peter Pan (cancelled)
Peter Pan (cancelled)

Peter Pan (cancelled)

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T12:20:59+00:0030 June 2020|

One ordinary evening turns into one extraordinary adventure… Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn’t grow up, flies into Greenwich Theatre in this all-new ensemble version of JM Barrie’s much-loved classic, adapted and directed by Ricky Dukes.

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