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Beginning by David Eldridge

Every story starts somewhere It’s the early hours of the morning and Danny’s the last straggler at Laura’s party. The flat’s in a mess. And so are they. One more drink? This sharp and astute two-hander from David Eldridge (Market Boy, The knot of the Heart, In Basildon, Middle) takes an intimate look at the […]

Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo

‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’, a play by Italian playwright Dario Fo, is based loosely on real-life events involving the Italian rail worker and anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who died under mysterious circumstances while in police custody in 1969. The events that led to Pinelli’s death have never been revealed, and Fo’s intention is to depict […]

Dick Whittington – The QMT Panto

Following the success of Cinderella in December 2019, the QMT’s first pantomime in many years, we are delighted to have been asked back to direct this year’s panto. Dick Whittington is a tale known and loved by children everywhere, and follows one young man’s attempt to make a better life for himself. Along the way he […]

Company – A Comedy Musical

Performance dates: Monday 22 to Saturday 27 May 2023 Opening on Broadway in 1970, Company with music and lyrics by the late Stephen Sondheim and a book by George Furth went on to receive 14 Tony Award nominations (a record at the time) and ended up winning six of them, including Best Musical. Originally a […]

Double Acts by John Finnemore

From award-winning director Harry Harding and writer John Finnemore, creator & star of popular radio series’ Cabin Pressure and John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme, comes not one, not two, but three hilarious plays from the Double Acts series. Double Acts was a series of radio comedies produced for BBC Radio 4. It is an anthology series […]

The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth

The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth Directed By David Lester Performance dates: Monday 26th September to Saturday 1st Oct 2022 at the QMT Audition dates: 6th June at 10am and 14th & 16th June at 7.45pm UPDATED INFORMATION: Audition pieces are now highlighted in red in the casting document available via the link on this page. […]

Eigengrau by Penelope Skinner

Eigengrau by Penelope Skinner Directed by Violet Morris In The Richard Whitmore Studio Auditions: Monday 7th and Tuesday 8th March 2022 at 7:45pm Performances: Tuesday 14th to Saturday 18th June 2022. Rehearsal Nights: (TBC) THE PLAY Eigengrau/ [ay-gen-gr-ow]/ noun. Intrinsic light; the colour seen by the eye in perfect darkness. Feminist activist Cassie is engaged […]

Shakespeare in Love by Lee Hall

Shakespeare in Love by Lee Hall Directed by Nicki Pope Movement by Katie Rallison Rehearsals will be on Tues and Thurs, with some Sunday mornings up to the opening. Tec will be on the 13th May with Dress on 15th May. Performance Dates – 16th -21st May Based on the Academy Award-winning movie, this enchanting, […]

Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle, and Dick – by Terry Johnson

About the Play In 1964 a fifty-one-year-old man meets a twenty-seven-year-old woman at work. She’s young, buxom, blonde, pretty. And just about to get married… Over the years, as they work together, the two grow closer; they become friends. He becomes obsessed with her. She promises him one night of lust in Brighton. Just one […]

The Maids by Jean Genet

THE PLAY “Dazzling, dangerous and captivatingly queasy” The Guardian Based very loosely on a notorious 1930s murder case, The Maids is a shocking play with boldlydrawn characters, unreliable narrators and a lot to say about class and gender politics. Claire and Solange are two maids, trapped in a menial life of service to a Mistress […]