Monday, April 8, 2024
It's been an extraordinary eight-year journey for Breeding, Barry McStay's comedy-drama about a gay couple's struggles with adoption, with many midwives helping the play's rebirths along the…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 06:43AMSaturday, April 6, 2024
Are we all headed straight to heaven or hell? Is there anything we can do to change direction? To alter who we truly are ? These are some of the big questions at the heart of Nina Atesh's n…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 08:40AMSunday, March 31, 2024
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, with his ever-loyal sidekick Dr Watson, holds the Guinness World Record as the most portrayed human literary character in history. What's the endur…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 01:28PMSunday, February 18, 2024
How do you reimagine a 3,700-line play with 20+ named characters and a normal performance time of up to four hours into a 70-minute monologue?
The post Lear’s Shadow post-show video and ph…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:31PMSunday, January 14, 2024
It was a shared love of screwball comedies from the 1930s and 1940s that brought Shaun McKenna and Andrew Van Sickle together. And the realisation that so many of the dramatists of the time …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:01PMIt was a shared love of 1930s screwball comedies that brought Shaun McKenna and Andrew Van Sickle together. And a realisation that so many of the dramatists of the time were secretly gay tha…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 12:01PMThursday, January 11, 2024
How often do you have a word with yourself? We're all familiar with the concept of an inner voice, chipping in with sometimes decidedly unhelpful suggestions.
The post Double Act post-show v…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:08AMSunday, November 19, 2023
I started my post-show talk for Kali Theatre's premiere of Phantasmagoria by asking the audience about their thoughts on politics today, including: are you feeling largely optimistic or pes…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:02PMFriday, November 17, 2023
My admiration for Emma Burnell knows no bounds. I followed her as a political journalist for years before becoming friends through MyTheatreMates. I've been amazed to watch her turn her hand…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:39AMThursday, October 12, 2023
In Lazarus Theatre's new reimagining of Jacobean drama The Changeling, adapter/director Ricky Dukes has taken his usual scalpel to the original text. In this case, losing the entire subplot …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:41PMMonday, October 9, 2023
What do you covet so much that you would work yourself, save and sacrifice for years, just for the chance of making the prized possession yours?
The post Flowers for Mrs Harris post-show vid…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:07AMWednesday, September 27, 2023
Dr Theatre came to the rescue at the White Bear Theatre for the London run of Am I Irish Yet?, the acclaimed one-woman show written and performed by Kate Kerrigan
The post Am I Irish Yet? po…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:40AMFriday, September 8, 2023
How many post-show Q&As conclude with a discussion of worst-nightmare torture methods? A dark but hilarious first for me with my event at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre for The Shatter B…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:56AMTuesday, September 5, 2023
In my first West End post-show Q&A for The Way Old Friends Do last month, director Mark Gatiss was asked for his thoughts on the actors who bring to life his husband Ian Hallard's new co…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:17PMSunday, August 27, 2023
In a note in the programme, Dumbledore Is So Gay author Robert Holtom admits that, while growing up in the UK in the Noughties, they could have never imagined writing the acclaimed queer co…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:56PMTuesday, August 22, 2023
In the first of my post-show Q&As for the West End premiere of The Way Old Friends Do, with writer and star Ian Hallard and director Mark Gatiss, it felt like ABBA's Agnetha, Björn, Be…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:44AMWednesday, June 28, 2023
Teens were involved at every stage of the development of coming-of-age comedy SHEWOLVES. That was our jumping-off point for a wider discussion about theatre for, with and about young people.…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:03AMFriday, June 2, 2023
If you know next to nothing about the Cameroonian War of Independence, you are not alone. A quick poll of the audience at my post-show Q&A for Under the Kundè Tree proved that ignorance…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:37AMTuesday, April 25, 2023
Joshua Hepple is a hugely accomplished person. But, as he joked with me via WhatsApp, he received no major attention until he revealed publicly that, with his severe cerebral palsy, he can't…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:38AMSaturday, April 15, 2023
After One Who Wants to Cross at the Finborough in February, I’m thrilled to chair the post-show talk for another new play care of Clarisse Makundul Productions, Makundul’s own Under the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, March 30, 2023
Following the news yesterday of Paul O'Grady's unexpected death, last night's performance of The Way Old Friends Do at London's Park Theatre was dedicated to the comedian and drag legend, wh…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:02AMMonday, March 20, 2023
Calling all ABBA and new writing fans! I’m delighted to return to the Park Theatre for the premiere of The Way Old Friends Do, written by and starring Ian Hallard and directed by Mark Gati…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, March 13, 2023
If you think the life of a jobbing actor is hard and full of rejection - and it is - spare a thought for non-British actors trying to make their way in London theatre who may not even make i…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:39PMWednesday, March 8, 2023
Following the 5.30pm performance on Sunday 12 March 2023 at London’s Cockpit Theatre, Terri Paddock talks to cast and creatives of A Tailor for Ladies. Georges Feydeau’s early 1886 comed…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, March 1, 2023
Southwark Playhouse is my neighbourhood theatre. Over the past decade, I've chaired countless post-show talks at what was meant to be its temporary home on Newington Causeway, a three-minute…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:21PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
Negotiations seem to be in the news every day - which makes Winner's Curse, conceived by former diplomat and veteran of countless Middle East negotiations Daniel Taub, a highly topical piece…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:32AMThursday, February 9, 2023
A note in the programme for One Who Wants to Cross cites a sobering statistic: according to the 2020 IOM World Migration Report, the number of international migrants, as of June 2019, had r…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:58AMFriday, January 27, 2023
How central are Gertrude, Claudius and Polonius to the story of Hamlet? If you remove those adult characters and the scenes that revolve around them, what are you left with?
The post Hamlet …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:21PMTuesday, January 10, 2023
Following the 7.45pm performance of Enda Walsh’s acclaimed 2006 play The Walworth Farce on Tuesday 28 February 2022 at Southwark Elephant, I’ll talk to creatives and cast. Any questions?…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, January 5, 2023
I’m at London’s Finborough Theatre in February for the UK premiere of Marc-Emmanuel Soriano’s multi-award-winning French play One Who Wants to Cross (Un Qui Veut Traverser), directed b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, December 22, 2022
Not long left to catch Life of Pi in the West End. If you possibly can, I recommend you beg, borrow or steal to get one of the last remaining tickets – or plan ahead now for the five-time …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:16PM 
