Monday, June 9, 2014
Every theatregoer has their own story about what and who turned them on to theatre. For me, growing up in the United States, it all started with Andrew Lloyd Webber. Years later, after movin…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:24AMThursday, June 5, 2014
Maybe it’s because I’m considering trying my own hand at producing and the universe is sending me encouragement, but everywhere I look at the moment, I see female producers. On Sunday ni…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:37AMFriday, May 30, 2014
There’s been a lot of media attention around the Globe’s Titus Andronicus. Once again, Lucy Bailey’s production – which starred Douglas Hodge in its first 2006 outing and now has Wil…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:51PMDavid Curl, company manager of Urinetown at St James Theatre, recalls the challenges of working with so much stage blood. The show is now aiming for a West End transfer, venue still to be an…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:30PMBetween my father’s illness, coursework and a month in Mallorca (sigh), I was out of show-going circulation for six weeks. Social media monitoring is fine for staying in the openings, clos…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:46AMTuesday, May 27, 2014
“Julius Caesar rocked my world,” says Donmar artistic director Josie Rourke. She isn’t talking about the play alone, but rather Phyllida Lloyd’s acclaimed all-female production, whic…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:30AMSunday, May 18, 2014
I officially finished my one-month blog challenge on 9 May 2014. And to celebrate, I set myself a new learning challenge: to film and edit my first-ever video blog, in which I grade my progr…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:10PMThursday, May 15, 2014
You only have three more weeks to catch Blithe Spirit at the Gielgud Theatre. Michael Blakemore’s production – and, more specifically, Angela Lansbury’s performance in it as dotty clai…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:33PMFriday, May 9, 2014
This is it, folks: I’ve reached the – slightly extenuated – end of my month-long daily learning blog challenge. And I wanted to finish with one to keep you happy! Let me set a scene. Y…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:15PMThursday, May 8, 2014
My partner’s sister Carry was in a tizz the other day as she related her airport tale of woe. She and her husband were travelling with their two thirsty children and had made the mistake o…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:14PMTwelfth Night is generally classified as one of Shakespeare’s comedies, but last week it officially became a history play as well, after its phenomenal haul in this year’s Tony Awards no…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:28PMWednesday, May 7, 2014
I’ve decided to squeeze in a special request before the official end of my #WhatILearnedToday daily blog challenge. If you follow me on Twitter (@TerriPaddock), you may have noticed – as…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:55PMTuesday, May 6, 2014
Learning meditation is one of those things I’ve had on my life to-do list for years. I have several friends who swear by it and who have been to multiple escape-way-out-of-London retreats …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:23AMFriday, May 2, 2014
Have you been Myers-Brigged? I first heard of this “personality inventory” test in a psychology course at university, and first encountered it in the real world in my late twenties when …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:53PMThursday, May 1, 2014
Composing yesterday’s blog about my recent experience with Hopi ear candles, first evangelising and then debunking them, provided me with a reminder lesson opportunity about confirmation b…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:06PMWednesday, April 30, 2014
I first came across Hopi ear candles about 15 years ago at a new age festival at Alexandra Palace in London where an exhibitor was selling, for my pocket, far-too-pricey therapy sessions. Sh…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:49PMTuesday, April 29, 2014
With all the blood and gore – and fantastically poetic staging care of director John Tiffany and choreographer Steven Hoggett – Morse code may not be the first thing you associate with t…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:10PMMonday, April 28, 2014
Even if you’re not a great reader of it, you will know that your body language communicates volumes to others. First impressions are formed in less than ten seconds and, overall, the actua…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:32PMHaving tweeted copiously about the sudden closure announcement of I Can’t Sing! over the weekend, as I started to write this blog this morning, a link to the much-faster Mark Shenton�…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:30AMFriday, April 25, 2014
I’m currently holed up in a small seaside village in Mallorca – no Starbucks or any other type of coffee chain round here – and my live-in barista Peter is about to abandon me to retur…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:50AMThursday, April 24, 2014
The past two blogs have been pretty serious – and long! – so here’s a shorter one for a change of pace. Ever run into someone you know but haven’t seen in awhile. You know you know t…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:05AMWednesday, April 23, 2014
Yesterday, I told you about what’s been happening with my father, who slipped into an extended Delirium following knee replacement surgery. For the family, seeing a loved one in Delirium c…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:26AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
(Preface: After a two-week, medically-necessitated hiatus, I’m able to resume my learning blog challenge – with a serious topic. I urge you to read this one, especially if you ha…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:00AMWednesday, April 9, 2014
The follow-up family call came last night so this morning I’m at Heathrow waiting for my flight to Huntsville, Alabama via Washington DC. (In case you ever wondered, there are no direct fl…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:55AMTuesday, April 8, 2014
The plan today was to tell you what I’ve learned about Morse Code… Then this morning, I woke up to a clutch of worrying texts from my family back in the States. What was meant to be a ro…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:21PMMonday, April 7, 2014
Having just posted about St Paul’s Cathedral, it may seem a little odd to immediately follow up with an apparently “anti-church” blog, but I did warn you that my topics, an…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:58AMThe Book of Mormon now has two major contenders for the title of funniest musical in London. But why just coronate one?! Let’s go ahead and give them all crowns (or tiaras, if they prefer)…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:00AMFriday, April 4, 2014
I’ve lived in London for more than 20 years and there are still whole areas I’ve never heard of, let alone been to. Once you factor in the sheer magnitude of things I don’t know about …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:49PMThursday, April 3, 2014
There are two universal truths about modern life (in fact there are more than two, but these are the ones relevant to what I’m going to tell you): Everyone is busy Everyone receives too ma…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:40PMI hate reviewing. There, I said it. Years ago, I reviewed very regularly, and became a member of the Critics’ Circle as a result. But the truth is I’ve always hated doing it. And, the mo…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:02AMWednesday, April 2, 2014
Today I learned something incredibly important if you’ve just set yourself a public challenge of blogging daily on a particular theme: in WordPress, if you pre-schedule a post to go live a…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:10AM 
