Thursday, 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 12:58PMFriday, September 9, 2022
The death of Queen Elizabeth II was announced just before my arrival at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre. Like the rest of the country, the theatre staff had been braced for the sad news. So t…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:59AMMonday, August 15, 2022
After fascinating discussions around Feel, At Last and Lately, I’m back with Proforca Theatre to discuss Flashbang, the company’s fifth new play by James Lewis, as well as exciting new w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, July 19, 2022
How do you cope in a world gone mad? That seems to me to be the central question in two of Romanian-French playwright Eugene Ionesco's one-act plays, The Lesson and The Chairs, written in th…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:41AMThursday, July 7, 2022
Following the 8pm performance of Doctor Faustus at Southwark Playhouse on Wednesday 14 September 2022, My Theatre Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to director Ricky Dukes, leading ma…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, May 27, 2022
Set in the final days of World War II, new play The End of the Night centres around the true but little-known secret meeting between Norbert Masur, a Swedish Jew and volunteer member of the …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:04AMTuesday, May 24, 2022
What role does theatre play in exploring historical and political themes? Mates founder Terri Paddock will explore that very question with an expert panel following a performance at the Park…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, April 12, 2022
Meeting the right person and starting a new relationship is hard enough, but when you also have to do it in rhyming couplets while searching for the meaning of your life... in Woking - well,…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:37AMThursday, March 31, 2022
As part of her resumed post-show talk series, Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a discussion for the world premiere of Jo & Sam Find Themselves in Woking at London's Hen & Chick…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, March 24, 2022
The spark of an idea for award-winning new two-hander Bacon, now in its extended world premiere season at London's Finborough Theatre, came when playwright Sophie Swithinbank, then working a…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:12AMWednesday, March 23, 2022
Wildcard Theatre promises "Shakespeare like you have never experienced it before", and they deliver in spades with this new gig-style reinvention of The Tempest in the perfect setting of the…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:15AMMonday, March 21, 2022
As part of her resumed post-show talk series, Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a discussion for the premiere production of Sophie Swithinbank's award-winning new play Bacon at London's…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMTuesday, March 15, 2022
As part of her resumed post-show talk series, Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a discussion at Wildcard Theatre's radical reimagining of Shakespeare classic The Tempest at the Pleasanc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, February 16, 2022
Rosie Day's wonderful rollercoaster ride of a debut play Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon, which she also performs, ends with the by-then 16-year-old protagonist writing a letter of adv…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:56PMSunday, February 13, 2022
I have a sneaking suspicion that we have not seen the last of this little musical gem, which is - incredibly - inspired by a real-life World War II espionage episode demonstrating British pl…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:24PMTuesday, February 8, 2022
As part of her resumed post-show talk series, Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a discussion at Instruction for a Teenage Armageddon at London’s Southwark Playhouse on Tuesday 15 Febr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, January 26, 2022
Mark St Germain's play Freud's Last Session, first seen Off-Broadway in 2010 and now receiving its European premiere at London's King's Head Theatre, pits two of the 20th-century greatest th…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:36AMMonday, December 6, 2021
I love Christmas. But for the past several years, I have struggled to summon the Christmas cheer that used to kick in for me the day after Thanksgiving (or, after so many years in the UK, by…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:00AMSunday, December 5, 2021
I was fascinated by the story behind the play telling the story behind the film. The Shark Is Broken is the brainchild of Ian Shaw who co-wrote it and stars as his own late father Robert Sha…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:38AMFriday, December 3, 2021
At my last Christmas Q&A at the Pleasance Theatre, for sci-fi spoof Escape from Planet Trash way back in December 2019, Ginger Johnson shared a tantalising teaser about her idea for her …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:25PMTuesday, November 30, 2021
Junior doctor turned multi-award-winning writer and comedian Adam Kay returns to the stage this festive season with a reminder to spare a thought for the hard-working staff of the NHS as we …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMSunday, November 21, 2021
Here's the brutal truth about many of our rights: we only really have them if we have the wherewithal to fight for them when they're trampled on. That's certainly the case when it comes to e…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:33PMAfter How to Catch a Krampus and Escape from Planet Trash, Ginger Johnson and her merry band of drag queens return to The Pleasance with a new alternative Christmas show, Dog Show. And I'm b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, November 17, 2021
Here's a sobering statistic: 2,000 pubs closed during lockdown. Lost forever. The scale of that loss really struck me when I heard performer and (brilliant) poet Ben Norris recite it during …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:21AMFriday, November 12, 2021
There are some shows with modest beginnings that seem to have all of the industry behind them, willing them to succeed. Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) is one of them.
The post Pride &…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:00PMMore than four centuries after William Shakespeare died in 1616, aged 52 on his own birthday (23 April), questions remain about the authorship of his prodigious output - including nearly for…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:47AMSunday, November 7, 2021
As much as it was possible for anyone the arts, Northern Comedy Theatre had a very good pandemic. When all performing arts venues closed, rather than wrap up their work, they ramped up.
The …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:57AMFriday, October 29, 2021
The big moral question at the heart of Indecent Proposal is: what are you willing to do for $1 million? More specifically: would you have sex for a stranger if they paid you $1 million?
The …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:42AMWednesday, October 27, 2021
Anton Chekhov is, of course, best known for his "big five" classic plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. None of which, though the author himself lab…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:25PMSunday, October 24, 2021
The premise of The Picture of Dorian Gray has become so much a part of our culture that most people will recognise the reference even if they've never read Oscar Wilde's original 1890 novell…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:41PMFriday, October 22, 2021
As part of her resumed post-show talk series, Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a discussion following the evening performance of James Woolf's new play Empty in Angel at London's Old R…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM 
