Productions Archive - The Queen Mother Theatre

It’s a Wonderful Life

A heartwarming Christmas classic for the whole family. Step into the snowy streets of Bedford Falls this festive season and rediscover one of the most beloved Christmas stories ever told. It’s Christmas Eve, 1946, and George Bailey feels as though life has passed him by. Burdened by disappointment and convinced the world would be better […]

Warsaw ’44 (15), Miasto 44

This year the Polish School ln Hitchin celebrates its fifteenth birthday. The film “Warsaw 44”, made in 2014, by Jan Komasa is a culturally important film in Poland and is on the Polish A-level curriculum in the UK. It is about the uprising in Warsaw in 1944 but as a film it helped to […]

Edinburgh Fundraiser Quiz Night

Get your thinking caps on and join us for a fantastic evening of fun, laughter and friendly competition, all in support of getting Big Spirit Youth Theatre to the Edinburgh Festival. Bring your friends, form a team and put your knowledge to the test across a range of entertaining quiz rounds. Whether you’re a trivia […]

Hamnet

From Academy Award–winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, Hamnet tells “the powerful love story that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.” Starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn, the film explores the emotional world of Shakespeare’s family and the grief surrounding the death of his son. Drama, 126 min Review | Trailer | Mark […]

Blue Stockings

A lively and thought provoking historical play, set in 1896 at Girton College, previously in Hitchin, but moved to none other than Cambridge – one of the first colleges in England to admit women. Blending humour, romance and moments of tension, the play explores themes of equality, ambition and the cost of challenging tradition. […]

Moonlight & Magnolias

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 in five days, he calls on the help of script doctor Ben Hecht, […]

President’s Cake (15)

Under Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, nothing will stop his mandatory birthday celebrations, including choosing a child from each school class across the land to bake a cake in his honour. Despite Lamia’s best efforts to avoid it, knowing how difficult it will be to source the ingredients, she is picked among her peers to produce the […]

New Season Launch Night

Season Launch Evening – 2026/27 Join us on Friday 1 May from 7.30pm as we unveil our exciting 2026/27 season. Be among the first to hear what’s coming up as our production team and directors introduce the full programme of main house and studio productions. It’s a chance to get a real insight into the […]

Cinderella – Easter 2026

FAMILY-FRIENDLY EASTER PANTO! Cinderella is working her fingers to the bone, dreaming of a better life, while her two Ugly Sisters and wicked stepmother, Oblivia, plot and scheme to go to the ball and find themselves rich men. But after a surprise visit from her Fairy Godmother, Cinderella’s life is turned upside down. She is […]

Juniors Double-Bill

The Bancroft Juniors present a double-bill: The Chorus InsideThis imaginative piece of physical theatre explores the inner voices that can appear when we feel anxious. What begins as a simple school presentation quickly unfolds into a vivid landscape of thoughts, doubts and competing emotions. As the performer navigates the moment, the question becomes clear: are […]