On 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 05:07PM[SHARE]Getting 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 03:07PM[SHARE]Day 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 04:13AM[SHARE]In 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 05:08AM[SHARE]Two 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 03:58PM[SHARE]Before 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? T…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 05:55AM[SHARE]There 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 12:15PM[SHARE]The 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 Viet…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 05:00PM[SHARE]When 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 04:27PM[SHARE]Remember 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 me…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 04:27PM[SHARE]It'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 06:43AM[SHARE]Are 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…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 08:40AM[SHARE]Sir 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 01:28PM[SHARE]How 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 phot…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:31PM[SHARE]It 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 12:01PM[SHARE]It 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 12:01PM[SHARE]How 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 11:08AM[SHARE]I 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 p…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:02PM[SHARE]My 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 11:39AM[SHARE]In 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 02:41PM[SHARE]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 11:07AM[SHARE]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 10:40AM[SHARE]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 05:56AM[SHARE]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 03:17PM[SHARE]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 …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:56PM[SHARE]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, …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:44AM[SHARE]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 08:03AM[SHARE]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 10:37AM[SHARE]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 06:38AM[SHARE]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 Kund…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]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…
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