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…
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…
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 onstag…
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 au…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
MyTheatreMates co-founder Terri Paddock hosted a series of three post-show Q&As following packed-out performances of the current run of Philip Ridley's ANGRY at London's Southwark Playh…
If an elderly relative in enormous physical pain begged you to help them to die, would you? Would you ever ask the same of someone else? What is a 'decent death'? Should we all have the righ…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Thursday 29 March 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the creator and company of original British musical MISS NIGHTINGALE,…
I’ve been raving about Julius Caesar to everyone over the past few weeks, and particularly the experience of seeing it in the pit of the staggeringly versatile Bridge Theatre. This sec…
In November 2016, a week after the election of Donald Trump, I chaired a post-show Q&A at Philip Ridley's Tonight with Donny Stixx. That one-man show, which follows a would-be magician w…
What's the point of philosophy? According to Ludwig Wittgenstein, as portrayed in Ron Elisha's moving and thought-provoking two-hander The Soul of Wittgenstein now running at Clapham Omni…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Saturday 9 June 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the director and cast of new British musical San Domino, inspired by a …
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Saturday 21 April 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the director and cast of the European premiere of award-winning US dr…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Sunday 11 March 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the writer, director and cast of world premiere play After the Ball. Go…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A programme, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will host a series of three discussions during the course of the world premiere run of Philip Ridley's ANG…