Audition Notices Archive - The Queen Mother Theatre

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare – Directed by Charles Plester Production Dates: Monday 7th July to Saturday 12th July (including a Saturday matinee) Twelfth Night – Shakespeare’s homage to the pursuit of true love is one of his best known and frequently revived plays. The twins Viola and Sebastian are separated when their ship sinks and we follow Viola’s story of self […]

Side by Side by Sondheim by Stephen Sondheim

Directed by Julia Fraser Performance Dates : 24th to 28th June in The QMT Studio “Side By Side” by Stephen Sondheim, is a collaboration of Stephen Sondheim songs, some he has written himself and some for which he has written the lyrics and collaborated with other composers. The numbers are a mix of well-knownfavourites from Sondheim’s work as […]

Blackadder Goes Forth by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton

Directed by Yvonne Patterson Production dates: Monday 9th June – Saturday 14th June (inc. a matinee) The Play Written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton we find the recurring characters of Blackadder, Baldrick and George placed in a trench during World War 1. We follow their various doomed attempts to escape from the trenches to avoid death […]

Blackbird by David Harrower

Directed by Amy Walker Performance dates: 29th April to 3rd May 2025 The Play 15 years ago, Ray and Una had a relationship that ripped their lives and families apart. They haven’t set eyes on each other since. Now she’s found him again Una confronts Ray at his workplace , where the two engage in […]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Winner of the Olivier Award and Tony Award® for Best Play, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time brings Mark Haddon’s international best-selling novel to thrilling life on stage PLOT Set in Swindon and London, the story concerns 15-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone, a mathematical genius with an autism spectrum disorder, although his […]

Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey

It’s the 90’s, and teenagers Jamie and Ste are living next door in working-class South London. Jamie is being bullied at school, and Ste is being bullied at home by his violent father and brother. One night, when his home life all gets a little too much to take, Ste seeks refuge at Jamie’s, and, […]

Sleeping Beauty

We are pleased to be returning for our third panto at The QMT. Following on from the sell-out successes of Cinderella in 2019 and Dick Whittington in 2022, we are pleased to be producing Sleeping Beauty. If anyone who has been in our previous pantomimes then you will already know that although we say this […]

Brimstone and Treacle by Dennis Potter

Directed by Emma Northcott Studio Production – 29th October to 2nd November 2024 The Play Although written in the 70s all of the themes explored within the play remain relevant, such as religion, power, trust, class, race, despair and belief in miracles. Written by Dennis Potter (The Singing Detective, Pennies from Heaven, Blue Remembered Hills) […]

Silly Cow by Ben Elton

Directed by Matt Gray Performance Dates: 23rd to 28th September 2024 The Play Set in 1991, Doris Wallace has everything a tough tabloid columnist could want: a toy boy with a handy supply of drugs, a lovely PA who bends over backwards to make sure she has all she wants, and the prospect of her […]

Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett

Directed by Matt Gray Rehearsal nights: Tuesdays and ThursdaysPerformance Dates: Tuesday 25th – 30th June About The curtain rises on a late evening in the future. Krapp, an old man, is sitting in his den in the dark, lit by a light above his desk. On his desk are a tape recorder and a number […]