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Yerma Q&A video and photos: What toll does the titanic title role take on an actress?
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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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Soldier On Q&A video and photos: Does a soldier ever really stop being a soldier?
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Soldier On Q&A video and photos: Does a soldier ever really stop being a soldier?

Soldier On Q&A video and photos: Does a soldier ever really stop being a soldier?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-26T22:46:42+00:0030 October 2018|Tags: Featured Show, Jonathan Lewis, Post-show Q&As, PTSD, Soldier On, Soldiers Arts Academy, Terri Paddock events, The Other Palace|

Does a soldier ever stop being a soldier? "No!" shouted several from the audience at last night's post-show discussion for Soldier On at The Other Palace.

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A Guide for the Homesick Q&A video and photos: How did Doctors Without Borders & homophobia inspire this new play?
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A Guide for the Homesick Q&A video and photos: How did Doctors Without Borders & homophobia inspire this new play?

A Guide for the Homesick Q&A video and photos: How did Doctors Without Borders & homophobia inspire this new play?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-26T22:51:48+00:0022 October 2018|Tags: 3Women, A Guide for the Homesick, Clifford Samuel, Douglas Booth, Eilene Davidson, Jonathan O'Boyle, Ken Urban, Late Company, Post-show Q&As, Stage Traffic, Stage Traffic Productions, Terri Paddock events, Trafalgar Studios|

The night after they faced the press, the team behind the European premiere production of A Guide for the Homesick faced a packed audience, most of whom stayed on to take part enthusiastically in our post-show discussion.

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The Sweet Science of Bruising Q&A video and photos: Why’s now the right time for a play about Victorian female boxers?
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The Sweet Science of Bruising Q&A video and photos: Why’s now the right time for a play about Victorian female boxers?

The Sweet Science of Bruising Q&A video and photos: Why’s now the right time for a play about Victorian female boxers?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-26T23:06:25+00:007 October 2018|Tags: Ashley Cook, Doctor Who, Joy Wilkinson, Kirsty Patrick Ward, Post-show Q&As, Terri Paddock events, Troupe Theatre, Vinay Patel|

This weekend, I got to enter the boxing ring at London's Southwark Playhouse to chair a post-show Q&A at Troupe Theatre's world premiere production of Joy Wilkinson's The Sweet Science of Bruising.

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

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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Where We Began Q&A video and photos: Should where we’re born define where we end up?
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Where We Began Q&A video and photos: Should where we’re born define where we end up?

Where We Began Q&A video and photos: Should where we’re born define where we end up?

By Terri Paddock|2020-02-01T21:47:21+00:0024 September 2018|Tags: HighTide Festival, John Tomlinson, Political plays, politics, Post-show Q&As, Rernanda Mandagara, Rosie MacPherson, Shireen Farkhoy, Stand & Be Counted Theatre, Tafadzwa Muchenje, Terri Paddock events, Where We Began, Zoe Katsilerou|

Should country of birth define your identity or determine where you end up? Set in the near-future, Stand and Be Counted Theatre's highly political new play Where We Began imagines a world where a new universal law mandates that everyone must return to where they were born and stay there.

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Midnight Q&A video and photos: What would you do if the secret police knocked on your door?
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Midnight Q&A video and photos: What would you do if the secret police knocked on your door?

Midnight Q&A video and photos: What would you do if the secret police knocked on your door?

By Terri Paddock|2020-02-01T21:50:56+00:0021 September 2018|Tags: Chris Cuming, Debunk Theatre, Fridthjofur Thorsteinsson, Kate Golledge, Laurence Mark Wythe, Midnight, New musicals, StageFaves, Terri Paddock events, Timothy Knapman|

So often with the news these days, parallels are drawn with our turbulent political times and the fascism that swept across Europe in the 1930s, and the question is asked: what would you do if...?

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Square Rounds Q&A video and photos: Sharing drinks and views on destruction
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Square Rounds Q&A video and photos: Sharing drinks and views on destruction

Square Rounds Q&A video and photos: Sharing drinks and views on destruction

By Terri Paddock|2020-02-01T21:52:52+00:0019 September 2018|Tags: Amy Marchant, Finborough Theatre, First World War, Gracy Goldman, Jimmy Walters, Letty Thomas, Philippa Quinn, Post-show Q&As, Proud Haddock, Rujenne Green, Square Rounds, Terri Paddock events, Tony Harrison, World War One, WWI|

The pub beneath the Finborough Theatre, where Proud Haddock's revival of Tony Harrison's Square Rounds, is currently closed for refurbishment. So what does Proud Haddock artistic director Jimmy Walters do on the night of our post-show Q&A? Bring in drinks from the off-licence.

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Unexpected Joy Q&A video and photos: How can we find common ground through musical theatre?
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Unexpected Joy Q&A video and photos: How can we find common ground through musical theatre?

Unexpected Joy Q&A video and photos: How can we find common ground through musical theatre?

By Terri Paddock|2020-02-01T21:57:11+00:0014 September 2018|Tags: Amy Anders Corcoran, Aria Entertainment, From Page to Stage, Gareth Bretherton, Janet Fullerlove, Jodie Jacobs, Katy Lipson, Kelly Sweeney, Melanie Marshall, New musicals, Post-show Q&As, Six, Southwark Playhouse, Terri Paddock events, Unexpected Joy|

Can musical theatre help us find common ground with those with whom we disagree? If so, Unexpected Joy is undoubtedly the musical to do it.

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Dust Q&A photos and podcast: Really talking – and listening – to Milly Thomas and Sara Joyce about suicide
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Dust Q&A photos and podcast: Really talking – and listening – to Milly Thomas and Sara Joyce about suicide

Dust Q&A photos and podcast: Really talking – and listening – to Milly Thomas and Sara Joyce about suicide

By Terri Paddock|2020-02-01T22:09:38+00:007 September 2018|Tags: Deus Ex Machina Productions, Dust, Featured Show, mental health, Milly Thomas, Post-show Q&As, Samaritans, Sara Joyce, suicide, Terri Paddock events|

Are we really talking about mental ill health? Or just talking about talking about it? Are we listening - actively listening - to those in need? What stops someone from committing suicide?

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