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Intra Muros Q&A video and photos: What is the point of theatre? How do actors marry up their dual lives?
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Intra Muros Q&A video and photos: What is the point of theatre? How do actors marry up their dual lives?

Intra Muros Q&A video and photos: What is the point of theatre? How do actors marry up their dual lives?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T23:20:59+00:0014 April 2019|Tags: Alexis Michalik, Che Walker, Cry Havoc, Declan Perring, Emma Pallant, Park Theatre, Post-show Q&As, Rio Kai, Summer Strallen, Terri Paddock events, Victor Gardener|

What does theatre mean to you? How do actors marry up the dual emotional demands of their chosen profession? How many 'characters' or versions of ourselves to the rest of us play in our own lives?

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Q&A video and photos: Overturning the ‘white saviour’ narrative with the Cry Havoc company
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Q&A video and photos: Overturning the ‘white saviour’ narrative with the Cry Havoc company

Q&A video and photos: Overturning the ‘white saviour’ narrative with the Cry Havoc company

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T23:28:32+00:009 April 2019|Tags: Cry Havoc, James El Sharawy, Karen Winchester, Marc Antolin, Pamela Schermann, Park Theatre, Post-show Q&As, Terri Paddock events, TimeZone Theatre, Tom Coash|

How lucky am I? Last night I got to spend a second night in a row with lovely Olivier Awards nominee Marc Antolin, now starring in new play Cry Havoc at the Park Theatre.

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Gently Down the Stream Q&A podcast and photos: Martin Sherman on passing on gay history and happiness
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Gently Down the Stream Q&A podcast and photos: Martin Sherman on passing on gay history and happiness

Gently Down the Stream Q&A podcast and photos: Martin Sherman on passing on gay history and happiness

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-26T00:08:26+00:0022 February 2019|Tags: Ben Allen, Harry Lawtey, Jonathan Hyde, Martin Sherman, Park Theatre, Post-show Q&As, Sean Mathias, Terri Paddock events|

"It's so rare these days to see a play about optimism," the wonderful actor Malcolm Sinclair told me after Wednesday night's performance of Gently Down the Stream at the Park Theatre.

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My Dad’s Gap Year Q&A video and photos: Launching Tom Wright and Rikki Beadle-Blair’s unstoppable collaboration
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My Dad’s Gap Year Q&A video and photos: Launching Tom Wright and Rikki Beadle-Blair’s unstoppable collaboration

My Dad’s Gap Year Q&A video and photos: Launching Tom Wright and Rikki Beadle-Blair’s unstoppable collaboration

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-26T00:25:33+00:008 February 2019|Tags: Adam Lannon, Alex Britt, LGBTQ, Michelle Collins, My Dad's Gap Year, New writing, Off-West End, Park Theatre, Post-show Q&As, Rikki Beadle-Blair, Terri Paddock events, Tom Wright, Trans, Transgender, Victoria Gigante|

The Park Theatre was absolutely buzzing last night with two sell-out shows, including in Park 90, Tom Wright's debut play My Dad's Gap Year, which has nearly sold out the rest of its run too. What's the secret alchemy between Wright and his director Rikki Beadle-Blair?

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Dialektikon Q&A video and photos: How much do you know about Stokely Carmichael? (And four other big thinkers)
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Dialektikon Q&A video and photos: How much do you know about Stokely Carmichael? (And four other big thinkers)

Dialektikon Q&A video and photos: How much do you know about Stokely Carmichael? (And four other big thinkers)

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-26T21:56:40+00:0013 December 2018|Tags: Adebayo Bolaji, Carl Robertshaw, Dialektikon, Ex Nihilo Theatre, Jacky Ivimy, Kate Luxmoore, Park Theatre, Post-show Q&As, Terri Paddock events|

Author Jacky Ivimy was inspired to start writing Dialektikon after coming across film and transcripts from the Liberation of Dialectics Congress.

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Pressure Q&A video and photos: How did David Haig come to write and star in a play about unsung Scottish hero and weatherman James Stagg?
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Pressure Q&A video and photos: How did David Haig come to write and star in a play about unsung Scottish hero and weatherman James Stagg?

Pressure Q&A video and photos: How did David Haig come to write and star in a play about unsung Scottish hero and weatherman James Stagg?

By Terri Paddock|2020-02-01T22:44:04+00:003 July 2018|Tags: Ambassadors Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, David Haig, John Dove, Laura Rogers, Malcolm Sinclair, Park Theatre, Philip Cairns, Post-show Q&As, Pressure, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Terri Paddock events|

If you'd never heard of the James Stagg before David Haig's latest play Pressure, don't feel bad: neither had he. Haig was approached by director John Dove and Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre who wanted to create a play about an unsung Scottish hero.

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Schism Q&A video and photos: Talking feminism, diversity, accessibility and toxic relationships with author-actor-activist Athena Stevens
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Schism Q&A video and photos: Talking feminism, diversity, accessibility and toxic relationships with author-actor-activist Athena Stevens

Schism Q&A video and photos: Talking feminism, diversity, accessibility and toxic relationships with author-actor-activist Athena Stevens

By Terri Paddock|2020-02-01T22:53:01+00:001 June 2018|Tags: Accessibility, Accessible theatre, Athena Stevens, Jonathan McGuinness, Park Theatre, Post-show Q&As, Schism, Terri Paddock events|

Two scratch-your-head stats shared during my post-show Q&A for Schism last night at London's Park Theatre: one, less than five percent of the UK population has dated someone with a disability.

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Rothschild & Sons Q&A podcast and photos: Broadway legend Sheldon Harnick on why the Jewish story must be told
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Rothschild & Sons Q&A podcast and photos: Broadway legend Sheldon Harnick on why the Jewish story must be told

Rothschild & Sons Q&A podcast and photos: Broadway legend Sheldon Harnick on why the Jewish story must be told

By Terri Paddock|2020-02-01T23:58:24+00:001 February 2018|Tags: Arnold Mittelman, Fiddler on the Roof, Gary Trainor, Glory Crampton, Jeffrey B Moss, Jerry Bock, Park Theatre, Robert Cuccioli, Rothschild & Sons, Sheldon Harnick, StageFaves, Terri Paddock events|

The Jewish story must continue to be told, Sheldon Harnick told me and a packed house at London's Park Theatre after a performance of Rothschild & Sons, for which he wrote the lyrics to the music by late collaborator Jerry Bock.

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Q&A video and photos: Talking therapy & sexual misconduct at The Secondary Victim
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Q&A video and photos: Talking therapy & sexual misconduct at The Secondary Victim

Q&A video and photos: Talking therapy & sexual misconduct at The Secondary Victim

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T15:20:38+00:0022 November 2017|Tags: Counselling, Gary Webster, Harvey Weinstein, Matt Holt, Matthew Campling, Matthew Gould, Michael Hanratty, Natasha Bain, Park Theatre, Post-show Q&As, Sexual allegations, Susannah Doyle, Terri Paddock events, The Secondary Victim|

It was a packed house - including many therapy professionals - for Matthew Campling's new play The Secondary Victim at the Park Theatre. Which made for some very knowledgeable comments and insights at the post-show Q&A.

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‘A landscape of mystery’: Fishskin Trousers Q&A photos and tweets
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‘A landscape of mystery’: Fishskin Trousers Q&A photos and tweets

‘A landscape of mystery’: Fishskin Trousers Q&A photos and tweets

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T15:35:06+00:0030 October 2017|Tags: Brett Brown, Elizabeth Kuti, Eva Traynor, Fishskin Trousers, Jessica Carroll, Jules Pretty, Metal Rabbit Productions, Park Theatre, Robert Price, Terri Paddock events|

How much can a landscape shape a person's identity? How much can a landscape shape a play's plot? In answer to the latter question, in the case of Elizabeth Kuti's Fishskin Trousers, the answer is certainly quite a lot.

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