Audition Notices Archive - The Queen Mother Theatre

Moonlight and Magnolias by Ron Hutchinson

Directed by Charlotte Ryan PRODUCTION DATES – QMT STUDIO 23rd – 27thSeptember 2025 Plot Hollywood 1939, semi-independent mogul David O. Selznick has shut down production on his mega budget version of Margaret Mitchell’s bestselling novel Gone with the Wind. He scraps the original script and sacks the director in the process. Determined to produce a rewrite […]

The Unfriend by Steven Moffat

Performance dates: 13th – 18th October Plot Summary While on holiday, Peter and Debbie befriend Elsa: a lusty, Trump-loving widow from Denver USA. She’s less than woke but kind of wonderful. They agree to stay in touch – because no one ever really does, do they? When Elsa invites herself to stay a few months later, they decide to […]

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) […]