Triggered post-show video and photos: Spotlight on the human side of party politics
Triggered post-show video and photos: Spotlight on the human side of party politics

Triggered post-show video and photos: Spotlight on the human side of party politics

By Terri Paddock|2022-12-15T20:28:58+00:0024 November 2022|Tags: Emma Burnell, Labour Party, politics, Post-show Q&As, Triggered, White Bear Theatre|

One of the few things I enjoy even more than theatre is talking politics. Chairing a post-show discussion about a brilliant new political play, written and directed by a Westminster insider, is my idea of bliss.

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Marlowe’s Fate post-show video and photos: Who really wrote William Shakespeare’s plays?
Marlowe’s Fate post-show video and photos: Who really wrote William Shakespeare’s plays?

Marlowe’s Fate post-show video and photos: Who really wrote William Shakespeare’s plays?

By Terri Paddock|2021-11-21T17:34:32+00:0012 November 2021|Tags: Christopher Marlowe, Marlowe's Fate, Peter Hodges, White Bear Theatre, William Shakespeare|

More than four centuries after William Shakespeare died in 1616, aged 52 on his own birthday (23 April), questions remain about the authorship of his prodigious output - including nearly forty plays and more than 150 sonnets.

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Marlowe’s Fate
Marlowe’s Fate

Marlowe’s Fate

By Terri Paddock|2021-11-07T19:49:03+00:0011 November 2021|Tags: Marlowe's Fate, New writing, Shakespeare, White Bear Theatre|

More than 400 years on, the question of who was England's greatest Elizabethan playwright rages on in the UK premiere of Peter B Hodges' Marlowe's Fate at London's White Bear Theatre.

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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|Tags: Andy Secombe, Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekhov's Vaudevilles, Jenny Eastop, Laura Hall, Mercurius Theatre, Michael Frayn, Post-show Q&As, Sam Denia, Terri Paddock events, White Bear Theatre|

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|Tags: Anton Chekhov, Jenny Eastop, Mercurius Theatre, Plays, Terri Paddock events, Vaudevilles, White Bear Theatre|

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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An Honourable Man Q&A video and photos: Has there ever been a more poisonous time in UK politics? (Insiders’ views)
An Honourable Man Q&A video and photos: Has there ever been a more poisonous time in UK politics? (Insiders’ views)

An Honourable Man Q&A video and photos: Has there ever been a more poisonous time in UK politics? (Insiders’ views)

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-26T22:05:51+00:0022 November 2018|Tags: An Honourable Man, Jolley Gosnold, Lord Hunt of Wirral, Michael McManus, political theatre, politics, Terri Paddock events, Tony Grew, Westminster, White Bear Theatre|

Populism, patriotism, political theatre, predictions for Brexit and the fast-paced nature of life-imitating-art-imitating-life were amongst the topics covered in an incredibly good-natured discussion across a wide partisan spectrum at An Honourable Man.

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WATCH show vlogs: Julius Caesar, Beginning, The Lady With a Dog and Foul Pages
WATCH show vlogs: Julius Caesar, Beginning, The Lady With a Dog and Foul Pages

WATCH show vlogs: Julius Caesar, Beginning, The Lady With a Dog and Foul Pages

By Terri Paddock|2020-02-01T23:49:51+00:0026 February 2018|Tags: Alan Ayckbourn, Alan Turkington, Beginning, Beth Burrows, Bridge Theatre, Chekhov, David Eldridge, Duncan MacInnes, Erin Doherty, Foul Pages, Hope Theatre, Ian Hallard, Jake Davies, Julius Caesar, Laura Glover, Lottie, National Theatre, Old Vic Theatre, Philip Goodhew, Robin Hooper, Rupert Graves, Shakespeare, The Divide, The Lady With a Dog, The Ungrateful Biped, White Bear Theatre|

I've been raving about Julius Caesar to everyone over the past few weeks, and particularly the experience of seeing it in the pit of the staggeringly versatile Bridge Theatre.

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