Monday, October 9, 2023
What 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 11:07AMWednesday, September 27, 2023
Dr 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 10:40AMFriday, September 8, 2023
How 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 05:56AMTuesday, September 5, 2023
In 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 03:17PMSunday, August 27, 2023
In 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 02:56PMTuesday, August 22, 2023
In 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 07:44AMWednesday, June 28, 2023
Teens 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 08:03AMFriday, June 2, 2023
If 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…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:37AMTuesday, April 25, 2023
Joshua Hepple is a hugely accomplished person. But, as he joked with me via WhatsApp, he received no major attention until he revealed publicly that, with his severe cerebral palsy, he can't…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:38AMSaturday, April 15, 2023
After One Who Wants to Cross at the Finborough in February, I’m thrilled to chair the post-show talk for another new play care of Clarisse Makundul Productions, Makundul’s own Under the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, March 30, 2023
Following the news yesterday of Paul O'Grady's unexpected death, last night's performance of The Way Old Friends Do at London's Park Theatre was dedicated to the comedian and drag legend, wh…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:02AMMonday, March 20, 2023
Calling all ABBA and new writing fans! I’m delighted to return to the Park Theatre for the premiere of The Way Old Friends Do, written by and starring Ian Hallard and directed by Mark Gati…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, March 13, 2023
If you think the life of a jobbing actor is hard and full of rejection - and it is - spare a thought for non-British actors trying to make their way in London theatre who may not even make i…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:39PMWednesday, March 8, 2023
Following the 5.30pm performance on Sunday 12 March 2023 at London’s Cockpit Theatre, Terri Paddock talks to cast and creatives of A Tailor for Ladies. Georges Feydeau’s early 1886 comed…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, March 1, 2023
Southwark Playhouse is my neighbourhood theatre. Over the past decade, I've chaired countless post-show talks at what was meant to be its temporary home on Newington Causeway, a three-minute…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:21PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
Negotiations seem to be in the news every day - which makes Winner's Curse, conceived by former diplomat and veteran of countless Middle East negotiations Daniel Taub, a highly topical piece…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:32AMThursday, February 9, 2023
A note in the programme for One Who Wants to Cross cites a sobering statistic: according to the 2020 IOM World Migration Report, the number of international migrants, as of June 2019, had r…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:58AMFriday, January 27, 2023
How central are Gertrude, Claudius and Polonius to the story of Hamlet? If you remove those adult characters and the scenes that revolve around them, what are you left with?
The post Hamlet …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:21PMTuesday, January 10, 2023
Following the 7.45pm performance of Enda Walsh’s acclaimed 2006 play The Walworth Farce on Tuesday 28 February 2022 at Southwark Elephant, I’ll talk to creatives and cast. Any questions?…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, January 5, 2023
I’m at London’s Finborough Theatre in February for the UK premiere of Marc-Emmanuel Soriano’s multi-award-winning French play One Who Wants to Cross (Un Qui Veut Traverser), directed b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, December 22, 2022
Not long left to catch Life of Pi in the West End. If you possibly can, I recommend you beg, borrow or steal to get one of the last remaining tickets – or plan ahead now for the five-time …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:16PMThursday, December 15, 2022
One hundred and twenty-two years ago tonight, on 15 December 2000, three lighthouse keepers disappeared on the island of Eilean Mor in the remote Outer Hebrides. What happened to them?
The p…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:28PMTo celebrate the re-release of Original Theatre’s critically acclaimed, on-demand online production of Into the Night: The Story of the Penlee Lifeboat, and to commemorate the 41st anniver…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, December 7, 2022
After a spine-chilling post-show talk for ghost story When Darkness Falls last year, I’m looking forward to reuniting with writer Paul Morrissey at London’s Park Theatre for his latest n…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, November 25, 2022
Hot on the heels of my post-show Q&A for Doctor Faustus, I’m pleased to announce I’ll return to Southwark Playhouse in January to continue my long-time association with Lazarus Theat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, November 24, 2022
One of the few things I enjoy even more than theatre is talking politics. Chairing a post-show discussion about a brilliant new political play, written and directed by a Westminster insider,…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:56PMThursday, October 27, 2022
A Single Man post-show Q&A at London's Park Theatre. © Anthony Kelly Cinemagoers will probably best know A Single Man from the 2009 film starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. Troupe…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:40AMWednesday, October 19, 2022
I’m thrilled to reunite with Troupe – after events for acclaimed productions including The Sweet Science of Bruising, Rasheeda Speaking, Dear Brutus and The Cardinal – to chair a post-…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, September 26, 2022
After post-show Q&As for Tonight with Donnie Darko, Vincent River, Angry and Tender Napalm, I’m delighted to be invited to chair another discussion with Philip Ridley, one of the UK’…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, September 24, 2022
The Quality of Mercy, a new one-man play about notorious British serial killer Harold Shipman, premieres at London's Courtyard Theatre this month. Taking a break from rehearsals, writer and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, September 15, 2022
What might entice you to sell your soul to the devil? Fame? Riches? Immortality? World peace? A rent-free London flat? Four pints of Guinness? At my post-show Q&A for a production of Doc…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:58PM 
