Audition Notices Archive - The Queen Mother Theatre

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 […]

Present Laughter by Noël Coward

Directed by Nicki Pope Audition Dates March 11th and 13th at 7.45pmPerformance Dates June 10th to 15thRehearsals Monday and Weds with some Sunday mornings up to the run What’s it all about? ‘I’m always acting,’ declares Garry Essendine, Noël Coward’s famous, in demand and occasionally overwrought protagonist in Present Laughter. In a blur of people, […]

Low Level Panic by Clare McIntyre

Clare McIntyre’s play Low Level Panic is considered a modern feminist classic, examining the effects of society’s objectification of women. It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in association with the Women’s Playhouse Trust on 11 February 1988, winning the Samuel Beckett Award the following year. The play is set in a […]

Bleak Expectations

Bleak Expectations is a Dickens spoof described as “the story Charles Dickens might have written after drinking too much gin”. It started life as a BBC Radio 4 series but has now been re-written as a stage play. However, we plan to return it to its original roots and stage it, with some liberties, as […]

Elsie & Norm’s Macbeth

Elsie & Norm’s “Macbeth” by John Christopher Wood. A QMT Studio Production directed by Russ Hurn. Audition dates: 30th October and 1st November 2023 – 7:45pm Rehearsal nights: Mondays and Wednesdays Performance Dates: Tuesday 23rd – Saturday 27th January 2024 You may think Shakespeare’s plays are long and on the wordy side with too many rhyming couplets, unnecessary characters, confusing language, and lacking a jolly […]