Productions Archive - The Queen Mother Theatre

Peter Pan

Fly away to Neverland this holiday season in the most enchanting adventure of all time! Get ready for a spectacular journey filled with pixie dust, pirates, and pure wonder. Spectacular Aerial Feats: Watch in awe as Peter, Wendy, and the gang take to the skies in jaw-dropping flights that will leave your kids believing they […]

Formerly Big Fish

You’ve always been a big fish in a small pond, but now you’re a small fish in a big pond. What you really want to be is a big fish in a big pond, but you might have to go through a few different ponds before you find it.” ‘Formerly Big Fish’ is a coming […]

NT Live: Skylight

Written by David Hare Directed by Stephen Daldry ★★★★★ ‘Moving picture of politics and love’ Guardian Returning to the big screen after nearly ten years, Bill Nighy (Living) and Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman) feature in the critically acclaimed revival of David Hare’s play, directed by Stephen Daldry (The Audience). On a bitterly cold London […]

NT Live: Dear England

a new play by James Graham directed by Rupert Goold Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale) plays Gareth Southgate in James Graham’s (Sherwood) gripping examination of nation and game. The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can’t England’s men win at their own game? With the worst […]

NT Live: Vanya

adapted by Simon Stephens, after Anton Chekhov directed by Sam Yates designed by Rosanna Vize Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation […]

Mostly Comedy – December

Hitchin’s popular comedy club presents its final show of the year at the QUEEN MOTHER THEATRE. Join host JENNY COLLIER for a mixed bill of the best names in comedy. 21st December’s Hitchin line-up features: Stand-up from ARTHUR SMITH (Olivier Award Nominee. Featured on BBC’s ‘Grumpy Old Men’, ‘QI’, ‘Have I Got News For You’ and […]

Vagina Monologues

The Vagina Monologues has been heralded by The New York Times as one of the most important plays of the past 25 years. It’s a show that has rocked audiences all around the world – ground-breaking, poignant and hilarious all at once! Written in 1996 the play in an episodic one which explores consensual and […]

Cairo Conspiracy (12A)

Cairo Conspiracy (12A), Norway, Denmark, Finland, 2022 – Arabic with sub-titles A fisherman’s son is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival, the university’s highest ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, dies and the young student becomes a pawn […]

Old Oak (15)

The Old Oak (15), UK, 2023 Local tensions arise in a small town following the arrival of Syrian refugees in this gritty UK drama in which anti-immigrant discrimination and scenes of threatening behaviour are balanced by criticism and challenge. A northern pub landlord confronts locals’ hostility towards Syrian immigrants in Ken Loach’s latest – and […]

Plan 75 (15)

Plan 75 (15), Japan, Philippines, 2022, Japanese with sub-titles PLAN 75 is a Japanese dystopian drama in which three individuals grapple with hard decisions about life and death in the wake of government legislation allowing senior citizens the right to assisted death. Japan’s submission for this year’s Oscars, is set in a near future in […]