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Live! From the Warehouse post-show talk: When life is online performance, what still feels real?
Live! From the Warehouse post-show talk: When life is online performance, what still feels real?

Live! From the Warehouse post-show talk: When life is online performance, what still feels real?

By Terri Paddock|2026-07-25T18:21:24+01:0010 July 2026|Tags: Joy of Drama, Live from the Warehouse, Mythologyworkshop, White Bear Theatre|

Two seventeen-year-old boys. An abandoned warehouse. A stolen gun. A phone that won't stop filming. Live from the Warehouse is a dark comic thriller about Gen Z, virality and what it costs to be seen.

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Live from the Warehouse
Live from the Warehouse

Live from the Warehouse

By Terri Paddock|2026-06-08T23:05:53+01:0024 May 2026|Tags: Joy of Drama, Live from the Warehouse, Shashwat Srivastava, White Bear Theatre|

How far will two teenage boys go to be seen online in our algorithmically-determined attention economy? After acclaim in India, Gen-Z dark comic thriller Live from the Warehouse gets its London premiere at the White Bear Theatre.

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Eh Up, Me Old Flowers! post-show video and photos: What is comedian Charlie Williams’ legacy?
Eh Up, Me Old Flowers! post-show video and photos: What is comedian Charlie Williams’ legacy?

Eh Up, Me Old Flowers! post-show video and photos: What is comedian Charlie Williams’ legacy?

By Terri Paddock|2025-11-06T14:01:34+00:0013 September 2025|Tags: Chris England, Eh Up Me Old Flowers!, Nick Denning-Read, Tony Marshall, White Bear Theatre|

Before Lenny Henry or Gary Wilmot, Charlie Williams paved the way as Britain's breakthrough black comedian who became a household name on ITV's stand-up show The Comedians. Chris England's new play celebrates his life.

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Eh up, Me Old Flowers
Eh up, Me Old Flowers

Eh up, Me Old Flowers

By Terri Paddock|2025-09-21T00:08:13+01:001 September 2025|Tags: Charlie Williams, Chris England, Eh Up Me Old Flowers!, White Bear Theatre|

Before Lenny Henry and Gary Wilmot, there was Charlie Williams. Eh Up, Me Old Flowers, Chris England's acclaimed play about the pioneering black comedian, gets its London premiere at the White Bear Theatre after the Edinburgh Fringe.

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The Last Days of Liz Truss? post-show video and photos: The night the lettuce lost
The Last Days of Liz Truss? post-show video and photos: The night the lettuce lost

The Last Days of Liz Truss? post-show video and photos: The night the lettuce lost

By Terri Paddock|2025-04-13T22:07:17+01:005 April 2025|Tags: Anthony Shrubsall, Emma Wilkinson Wright, Greg Wilkinson, Sarah Lawrie, The Last Days of Liz Truss, White Bear Theatre|

While a lettuce famously outlasted Liz Truss' 49-day tenure as Prime Minister, Emma Wilkinson Wright easily outperformed the prop iceberg in Oxia Theatre's hit, The Last Days of Liz Truss?, at the White Bear Theatre.

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The Psychiatrist
The Psychiatrist

The Psychiatrist

By Terri Paddock|2025-03-23T17:54:25+00:0023 March 2025|Tags: Julian Bird, The Psychiatrist, White Bear Theatre|

Who does a psychiatrist turn to when he needs help himself? The Psychiatrist, written by and co-starring Julian Bird based on personal experience, premieres at the White Bear Theatre.

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The Last Days of Liz Truss
The Last Days of Liz Truss

The Last Days of Liz Truss

By Terri Paddock|2025-04-05T22:23:05+01:0023 March 2025|Tags: Anthony Shrubsall, Emma Wilkinson Wright, Greg Wilkinson, The Last Days of Liz Truss, White Bear Theatre|

Liz Truss' tenure in Downing Street may have been short-lived, but it has inspired a hit one-woman play that keeps on running. The Last Days of Liz Truss is back by popular demand at the White Bear Theatre.

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The Value of Names post-show video and photos: What are the consequences of ‘un-American’ activities?
The Value of Names post-show video and photos: What are the consequences of ‘un-American’ activities?

The Value of Names post-show video and photos: What are the consequences of ‘un-American’ activities?

By Terri Paddock|2025-02-23T17:18:59+00:0014 February 2025|Tags: Hint of Lime Productions, Jeffrey Sweet, Kunstler, The Value of Names, White Bear Theatre|

At the height of the Red Scare in the US, Congress’ House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) targeted Hollywood as a hub of subversive Communist activity and held high-profile hearings that pressured artists to testify about their politics and “name names”.

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The Value of Names
The Value of Names

The Value of Names

By Terri Paddock|2025-01-04T21:30:05+00:004 January 2025|Tags: Jeffrey Sweet, Kunstler, The Value of Names, White Bear Theatre|

Following last year's transatlantic transfer of Kunstler, acclaimed American playwright Jeffrey Sweet returns to London's White Bear Theatre with another UK premiere, The Value of Names, which he also directs.

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Synchronicity: A meeting of two great minds, Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli
Synchronicity: A meeting of two great minds, Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli

Synchronicity: A meeting of two great minds, Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli

By Terri Paddock|2024-11-23T14:55:39+00:0023 November 2024|Tags: Raymond Whitaker, Synchronicity, White Bear Theatre|

My friend Raymond Whitaker and I give our reactions to Arthur I Miller's new play about the friendship between psychologist Carl Jung and the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli.

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