Yerma

Yerma Q&A video and photos: What toll does the titanic title role take on an actress?
Yerma Q&A video and photos: What toll does the titanic title role take on an actress?

Yerma Q&A video and photos: What toll does the titanic title role take on an actress?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-26T22:40:51+00:0011 November 2018|Tags: Cervantes Theatre, Coco Mbassi, Jorge de Juan, Leila Damilola, Lorca, Spanish Theatre Company, Terri Paddock events, Tom Whitelock, Yerma|

Federico Garcia Lorca spent three months in Cuba in 1930 - six years before he was assassinated (aged just 38) by Franco nationalists in his native Spain. He fell in love with the Caribbean island nation and it with him. And it's this association that inspired Jorge de Juan in his new adaptation of Lorca classic Yerma.

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Ay, Carmela! Q&A video and photos: Do only the dead remember the Spanish Civil War?
Ay, Carmela! Q&A video and photos: Do only the dead remember the Spanish Civil War?

Ay, Carmela! Q&A video and photos: Do only the dead remember the Spanish Civil War?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-26T23:16:06+00:0029 September 2018|Tags: Ay Carmela!, Cervantes Theatre, Ivanhoe Norona, Jorge de Juan, Lorca, Madalena Alberto, Paula Paz, Post-show Q&As, Spanish Civil War, Spanish Theatre Company, Terri Paddock events, Yerma|

How much do you know about the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)? Who fought on the side of the Republicans and who for the Nationalists? What happened to those who got caught in the middle, such as Paulino and Carmelo in Jose Sanchis Sinisterra's Ay, Carmela!?

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Blood Wedding Q&A and podcast: What happens when you relocate Lorca to modern London?
Blood Wedding Q&A and podcast: What happens when you relocate Lorca to modern London?

Blood Wedding Q&A and podcast: What happens when you relocate Lorca to modern London?

By Terri Paddock|2020-02-01T21:58:53+00:0013 September 2018|Tags: Blood Wedding, Cervantes Theatre, George Richmond-Scott, Lorca, Omnibus Theatre, Post-show Q&As, Terri Paddock events, Yerma|

What a reminder that live theatre is LIVE, that things can go wrong and that that's all part of the excitement.

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Behind-the-scenes: My Critics’ Circle Awards experience and Glenda Jackson crush
Behind-the-scenes: My Critics’ Circle Awards experience and Glenda Jackson crush

Behind-the-scenes: My Critics’ Circle Awards experience and Glenda Jackson crush

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-08T09:46:09+00:005 February 2017|Tags: Anthony Boyle, Billie Piper, Critics' Circle Awards, Dominic Cavendish, Dominic Maxwell, Glenda Jackson, Groundhog Day, Harry Potter & the Cursed Child, Henry Hitchings, King Lear, Yerma|

Me and Mark Shenton in the middle with some of our amazing Awards volunteers:

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The list of lists: Was there a consensus on the best of #theatre2016?
The list of lists: Was there a consensus on the best of #theatre2016?

The list of lists: Was there a consensus on the best of #theatre2016?

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T12:50:09+00:0015 January 2017|Tags: #theatre2016, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Streetcar Named Desire, Alan Rickman, Billie Piper, BU21, Escaped Alone, Glenda Jackson, Groundhog Day, Half a Sixpence, Harriet Walter, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Helen McCrory, Iphigenia in Splott, King Lear, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Maxine Peake, Shakespeare Trilogy, The Deep Blue Sea, The Flick, Tom Hollander, Travesties, Year in review, Yerma|

Critics' Theatre 2016 highlights included: Harry Potter, Groundhog Day, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Yerma,

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