Productions Archive - Page 13 of 14 - The Queen Mother Theatre

Bea

Bea’s body is useless to her. For eight years she has laid marooned in her bed, surrounded by the evidence of the life she once led as a student before illness struck. Now she is dependent on her barrister mother, Katherine, and a carer to do everything for her. On the outside she is almost […]

We Happy Few

The play is based on the real-life adventures of the Osiris Players, a band of women determined to bring entertainment to as many as possible during the grey days of WW2. With many theatres closing the aspiring actresses took plays ranging from Shakespeare to Winnie-the-Pooh and performed at schools and village halls up and down […]

Constellations

‘Constellations’ is a multi-award winning play revolving around the idea that we are all a part of a universe in which at any moment several different outcomes can exist simultaneously. The two characters meet in a variety of scenes, showing different ways in which their encounters could have turned out as a result of factors […]

Blackadder – The Tudor Years

Brace yourself as you step in to the year 1558, and watch Lord Blackadder and his half-witted accomplices weave madness and mayhem across Elizabethan England! Featuring three iconic episodes from the original TV series.

Beacons

A magical play set around an ice cream van at the top of Beachy Head. Julie runs the van by day and patrols the cliff by night to prevent future jumpers. She has the company of ex hobo Bernard while young Skye helps out as a distraction from her troubled home life. Julie toys with […]

Bette and Joan

Davis and Crawford lived and worked in a pre #MeToo world and used their talent and feminine whiles to get to the top of Hollywood, winning Oscars and millions of fans all along the way, but through it all they stayed sworn enemies. Baby Jane brought them together for the first and only time and […]

Lion in Winter

Henry has just turned fifty, an age at when in his time, men were either old or dead. Not Henry. Though arthritis comes occasionally and new battle wounds do not heal the way the old ones did, he is still very nearly all he ever was. Set during Christmas 1183 at Henry II of England’s castle in Chinon, the play […]

Put That Light Out

A bit of Wartime nostalgia with songs, sketches and memories making up the show, which also includes some fascinating old tapes of Chamberlain and Churchill. Includes the famous “I have received no such assurance” declaration of war announcement.

Wait Until Dark

Wait Until Dark was first performed on Broadway in 1966. A film version was released in 1967, and the play was published in the same year. Susy Hendrix is a blind Greenwich Village housewife who becomes the target of three con-men searching for the heroin hidden in a doll, which her husband Sam unwittingly transported from Canada as a favour to a […]

Bea