Productions Archive - The Queen Mother Theatre

Shakespeare’s Big Brother

You’ve had Big Brother! You’ve had Celebrity Big Brother (which is essentially normal Big Brother because you haven’t got a clue who any of them are). And now we give you… Shakespeare’s Big Brother! Fresh from their run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Big Spirit return for one night only to present this clever and witty […]

2:22 A Ghost Story

Jenny and Sam, and their baby Phoebe, have recently moved into their new home. But something feels frightening and wrong. Very wrong. Over the baby monitor, at 2:22 every night, Jenny hears footsteps around her daughter’s cot. Could the house be haunted? When their friends Lauren and Ben come round for a housewarming dinner, they […]

From Page to Stage

Buy a ticket to two shows and see the third one for free. Join us for an evening of a staged playreading of one of the following plays all written by local writers. Each performance is followed by a Q&A with the director and cast. Thursday 17th September:FIRE and RAIN by Martin HancockWhen natural resources […]

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 […]