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The Walworth Farce post-show video and photos: The perfect play to open Southwark Playhouse’s new venue
The Walworth Farce post-show video and photos: The perfect play to open Southwark Playhouse’s new venue

The Walworth Farce post-show video and photos: The perfect play to open Southwark Playhouse’s new venue

By Terri Paddock|2023-03-13T18:40:09+00:001 March 2023|Tags: Dan Skinner, Emmet Byrne, Enda Walsh, Killian Coyle, Nicky Allpress, Post-show Q&As, Rachelle Diedericks, Southwark Playhouse, Terri Paddock events, The Walworth Farce|

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 walk turning left outside my front door.

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Wickies post-show video and photos: What happened to three vanished lighthouse keepers?
Wickies post-show video and photos: What happened to three vanished lighthouse keepers?

Wickies post-show video and photos: What happened to three vanished lighthouse keepers?

By Terri Paddock|2023-01-29T17:23:02+00:0015 December 2022|Tags: Ewan Stewart, Graeme Dalling, Jamie Quinn, Paul Morrissey, When Darkness Falls, Wickies, Wickies: The Vanishing Men of Eilean Mor|

One hundred and twenty-two years ago tonight, on 15 December 2000, three lighthouse keepers disappeared on the island of Eilean Mor in the remote Outer Hebrides. What happened to them?

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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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Doctor Faustus post-show video and photos: What would make you sell your soul to the devil?
Doctor Faustus post-show video and photos: What would make you sell your soul to the devil?

Doctor Faustus post-show video and photos: What would make you sell your soul to the devil?

By Terri Paddock|2022-11-24T23:02:21+00:0015 September 2022|Tags: Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Jamie O'Neill, Lazarus Theatre, Ricky Dukes, Southwark Playhouse|

What might entice you to sell your soul to the devil? Fame? Riches? Immortality? World peace? A rent-free London flat? Four pints of Guinness? At my post-show Q&A for a production of Doctor Faustus, that was an irresistible question to pose to the company.

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Flashbang post-show video and photos: Celebrating life in the wake of shock and tragedy
Flashbang post-show video and photos: Celebrating life in the wake of shock and tragedy

Flashbang post-show video and photos: Celebrating life in the wake of shock and tragedy

By Terri Paddock|2022-09-16T11:09:13+01:009 September 2022|Tags: At Last, David Brady, Feel, Flashbang, Lately, Lion & Unicorn Theatre, Proforca Theatre|

The death of Queen Elizabeth II was announced just before my arrival at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre. Like the rest of the country, the theatre staff had been braced for the sad news. So the world premiere of Proforca's Flashbang was preceded by a public address and collective silence.

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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|2022-09-09T15:00:32+01:0027 May 2022|Tags: Ben Brown, Kurt Barling, Original Theatre, Park Theatre, Post-show Q&As, Terri Paddock events, The End of the Night|

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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Bacon post-show video and photos: Balancing on the see-saw of power in a toxic relationship
Bacon post-show video and photos: Balancing on the see-saw of power in a toxic relationship

Bacon post-show video and photos: Balancing on the see-saw of power in a toxic relationship

By Terri Paddock|2022-04-12T10:37:07+01:0024 March 2022|Tags: Bacon, Corey Montague-Sholay, Finborough Theatre, Matthew Iliffe, New writing, Sophie Swithinbank, William Robinson|

The spark of an idea for award-winning new two-hander Bacon, now in its extended world premiere season at London's Finborough Theatre, came when playwright Sophie Swithinbank, then working as a nanny, witnessed a bullying incident between two boys in a park.

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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|Tags: Pleasance Theatre, Post-show Q&As, Shakespeare, Tempest, Terri Paddock events, The Tempest, Wildcard Theatre|

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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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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Doing Shakespeare post-show video and photos: Would the bard recognise his plays in this Zoom-to-stage mash-up?
Doing Shakespeare post-show video and photos: Would the bard recognise his plays in this Zoom-to-stage mash-up?

Doing Shakespeare post-show video and photos: Would the bard recognise his plays in this Zoom-to-stage mash-up?

By Terri Paddock|2021-11-12T12:54:17+00:007 November 2021|Tags: Bridewell Theatre, David Spicer, Doing Shakespeare, Northern Comedy Theatre, Shakespeare, Shaun Chambers, Steven Arnold|

As much as it was possible for anyone the arts, Northern Comedy Theatre had a very good pandemic. When all performing arts venues closed, rather than wrap up their work, they ramped up.

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