If not through the 1932 Nobel Prize-winning nine-novel literary classic, many audience members will be familiar with John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga through its serial TV adaptations. T…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 06:33AMEleven million people died during the Holocaust, six million of them Jews. Simon Wiesenthal survived and then dedicated the rest of his life to preserving the memory of, and seeking justice …
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 04:40PMStop what you’re doing and Google Madge Gill right now. This fascinating woman and self-taught artist, the subject of the sixth in James Kenworth’s Newham Plays series, is worthy of your…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 05:35AMOn Day Four at the Edinburgh Fringe, my last, I squeezed in two final shows before rushing for my afternoon train home: Every Brilliant Thing and It's the Economy, Stupid! The post Edinburgh…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 05:07PMGetting into my stride on Day 3 with six shows. Meta theatricality, strong women, lost little boys, activism, and musical hit-makers are amongst some of the common themes. The post Edinburgh…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 03:07PMDay two in Edinburgh - my first full day - comprised five shows sandwiched around an industry drinks event: two more featuring performers with large social media followings. Not least, the i…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 04:13AMIn my first return to Edinburgh since long before the pandemic, can I manage a proper Fringe binge? Straight off the train, I see I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical, The Sex Lives of Puppets…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 05:08AMTwo of the most urgent issues facing the world today - climate change and the dizzying acceleration of Artificial Intelligence - collide in Jupiter's Ghost, Tani Gill's dystopian drama with …
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 03:58PMBefore chairing this discussion for Marie Curie at Charing Cross Theatre, I was racking my brains trying to think of other musicals about science. Films and plays aplenty. But musicals? The…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 05:55AMThere were multiple art-imitating-life revelations and resonances during the post-show talk for Grace Carroll's new play Drag Baby, about a drag queen considering sperm donation for an ex-gi…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 12:15PMThe timing of this overdue European premiere of Jeffrey Sweet’s 2013 biographical play about the American civil rights lawyer William Kunstler (1919-1995), best known for his defence of Vi…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 05:00PMWhen you find 'the one', can you ever know how long you have? Will your time together be long or short? What will be the first and last thing you remember about it? The post Remembrance Mond…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 04:27PMRemember how exciting it was when England made it to the men’s Euro 2020 final (in 2021 due to Covid). Remember the bloke who got so excited he lit his bum on fire?! His incendiary social …
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 04:27PMIt's been an extraordinary eight-year journey for Breeding, Barry McStay's comedy-drama about a gay couple's struggles with adoption, with many midwives helping the play's rebirths along the…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 06:43AMAre we all headed straight to heaven or hell? Is there anything we can do to change direction? To alter who we truly are ? These are some of the big questions at the heart of Nina Atesh's n…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 08:40AMSir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, with his ever-loyal sidekick Dr Watson, holds the Guinness World Record as the most portrayed human literary character in history. What's the endur…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 01:28PMHow do you reimagine a 3,700-line play with 20+ named characters and a normal performance time of up to four hours into a 70-minute monologue? The post Lear’s Shadow post-show video and ph…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:31PMIt was a shared love of screwball comedies from the 1930s and 1940s that brought Shaun McKenna and Andrew Van Sickle together. And the realisation that so many of the dramatists of the time …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:01PMIt was a shared love of 1930s screwball comedies that brought Shaun McKenna and Andrew Van Sickle together. And a realisation that so many of the dramatists of the time were secretly gay tha…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 12:01PMHow often do you have a word with yourself? We're all familiar with the concept of an inner voice, chipping in with sometimes decidedly unhelpful suggestions. The post Double Act post-show v…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:08AMI started my post-show talk for Kali Theatre's premiere of Phantasmagoria by asking the audience about their thoughts on politics today, including: are you feeling largely optimistic or pes…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:02PMMy admiration for Emma Burnell knows no bounds. I followed her as a political journalist for years before becoming friends through MyTheatreMates. I've been amazed to watch her turn her hand…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:39AMIn Lazarus Theatre's new reimagining of Jacobean drama The Changeling, adapter/director Ricky Dukes has taken his usual scalpel to the original text. In this case, losing the entire subplot …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:41PMWhat do you covet so much that you would work yourself, save and sacrifice for years, just for the chance of making the prized possession yours? The post Flowers for Mrs Harris post-show vid…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:07AMDr Theatre came to the rescue at the White Bear Theatre for the London run of Am I Irish Yet?, the acclaimed one-woman show written and performed by Kate Kerrigan The post Am I Irish Yet? po…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:40AMHow many post-show Q&As conclude with a discussion of worst-nightmare torture methods? A dark but hilarious first for me with my event at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre for The Shatter B…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:56AMIn my first West End post-show Q&A for The Way Old Friends Do last month, director Mark Gatiss was asked for his thoughts on the actors who bring to life his husband Ian Hallard's new co…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:17PMIn a note in the programme, Dumbledore Is So Gay author Robert Holtom admits that, while growing up in the UK in the Noughties, they could have never imagined writing the acclaimed queer co…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:56PMIn the first of my post-show Q&As for the West End premiere of The Way Old Friends Do, with writer and star Ian Hallard and director Mark Gatiss, it felt like ABBA's Agnetha, Björn, Be…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:44AMTeens were involved at every stage of the development of coming-of-age comedy SHEWOLVES. That was our jumping-off point for a wider discussion about theatre for, with and about young people.…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:03AMIf you know next to nothing about the Cameroonian War of Independence, you are not alone. A quick poll of the audience at my post-show Q&A for Under the Kundè Tree proved that ignorance…
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