Monday, July 23, 2018
Are women punished in drama for liking sex and drink? What has modern classic The Rise and Fall of Little Voice got in common with Greek drama? What’s the secret to vocal impressions?…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:30AMThursday, July 12, 2018
Andrew Lloyd Webber came up twice in conversation at last night’s post-show for It Happened in Key West. The second pertained to the title of the show which, many years ago, when Jere…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:10AMFriday, July 6, 2018
If you had to choose just three Hollywood legends to build a theatre show around, who would you choose? For Sirens of the Silver Screen, Beth Burrows selected Judy Garland, Audrey Hepburn a…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:40AMThursday, July 5, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Monday 13 August 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock returns to Trafalgar Studios for the first-ever Bitcoin-funded West End transfer, A…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMTuesday, July 3, 2018
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…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:14AMMonday, June 18, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Saturday 28 July 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock is at London's Soho Theatre for the highly anticipated return of Vicky Jones' award…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, June 15, 2018
A warning to start: Beirut is not for the prudish. In this two-hander, Robert Rees‘ Torch starts the evening buck naked (doing pull-ups) and he and co-star Louisa Connolly-Burnham, a…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:00AMThursday, June 14, 2018
Audience member Jessica McClellan at the Omnibus Theatre tweeted that last night’s post-show discussion for The Yellow Wallpaper was “deep AF” (I’ll assume you know…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:07AMSunday, June 10, 2018
Before the performance at Tristan Bates Theatre, the 16-strong company of San Domino entertain theatregoers in the bar with some jaunty patriotic songs, with which they lead them into the a…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:56AMSaturday, June 9, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Wednesday 11 July 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock quizzes the team behind the world premiere of the new US musical comedy It Happene…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMWednesday, June 6, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Monday 2 July 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock is back in the West End for the transfer of acclaimed new World War II drama Pressure.…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMFriday, June 1, 2018
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…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:24AMSunday, May 27, 2018
When I first saw the Barn Theatre revival of Simon Stephens‘ 2003 play One Minute, the things that struck me most were, in no particular order: the ground-breaking video projection des…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:02PMWednesday, May 23, 2018
A keen audience of Anthony Horowitz fans and super sleuthers last night at Mindgame made for a highly revealing post-show Q&A. How many set secrets did we correctly identify? And which…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:00AMFriday, May 18, 2018
So much laughter at last night’s post-show Q&A for Katy Brand’s debut play 3Women, now running at the West End’s Trafalgar Studios 2 until 9 June 2018! Brand’s 8…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:00AMWednesday, May 9, 2018
Another post-show Q&A first for me. Due to a last-minute scheduling conflict, Spanish playwright Guillem Clua had to cancel his flight to London to attend last night’s performance …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:59AMFriday, May 4, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Wednesday 13 June 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock returns to Clapham's Omnibus Theatre to quiz the team behind the modern Gothic thr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMSunday, April 29, 2018
The Big Things, currently running at Barons Court Theatre, brings us into the world of Grace who, after meeting and falling in love with Malcolm and becoming a parent, is diagnosed with auti…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:23AMThursday, April 26, 2018
What a provocative play and post-show discussion! Are we all racist? How different are racial relations in 21st-century America versus Britain? How do we get more unheard voices onstage? …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:46AMMonday, April 23, 2018
I won’t name and shame but will admit that some of my trickiest moments over my many years hosting post-show discussions have been at plays set in the United States when audience …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:40AMFriday, April 20, 2018
I missed a trick with my questions last night at the world premiere of DAMES, the surreal comedy about six millennial women who meet in a nightclub loo, which marks the playwriting debut of…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:42AMMonday, April 16, 2018
The Barn Theatre’s inaugural production of The Secret Garden extended by a fortnight – which very helpfully allowed me to fit another trip to Cirencester and a post-show Q&A …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:20AMSaturday, April 14, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Thursday 14 June 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock returns to London's Park Theatre to quiz the team behind the long-overdue London pr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMFriday, April 6, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Thursday 19 April 2018 at the Pleasance Theatre, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to Charlotte Merriam and the #FemalesWithNoFilt…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:10AMSunday, April 1, 2018
When I chaired my first post-show Q&A at Miss Nightingale a year ago, I thought its home then was ideal: The Vaults, in its labyrinth beneath Waterloo Station, so like an air raid shelte…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:28PMWhen I chaired my first post-show Q&A at Miss Nightingale a year ago, I thought its home then was ideal: The Vaults, in its labyrinth beneath Waterloo Station, so like an air raid shelte…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:28PMSaturday, March 31, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 8 May 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to Spanish playwright Guillem Clua - as well as director and stars - about t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMWednesday, March 28, 2018
I’ve always been squeamish about needles. And I’m not much better with graphic drug-taking by any other method either. I first saw Harry Gibson’s stage adaptation of Irvine…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:02PMFriday, March 16, 2018
I’m pretty certain that my event last night at SOLDIER ON was my largest-ever panel for a post-show Q&A: in total, there were 19 of us, including me. Thank goodness the Playgr…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:03PMMonday, March 12, 2018
When you hold a post-show Q&A on Mothering Sunday, it’s awfully helpful to have a mother of one of the show’s stars in the cast. (Though I do hope After the Ball cast member …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:52PMFriday, March 9, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Thursday 15 March 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the writer/director Jonathan Guy Lewis (Our Boys) and members of the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AM 
