Productions Archive - Page 14 of 15 - The Queen Mother Theatre

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 […]

Importance of Being Earnest

Pygmalion

Double Acts

Double Acts was a series of radio comedies produced for BBC Radio 4. It is an anthology series of two-handers. Each episode features only two main speaking parts and is a self-contained play, …although some of them are loosely connected. John Finnemore told me that he had unwittingly connected some of the episodes from his […]

Dick Whittington

Following the success of our first pantomime in several years, we are thrilled to welcome back the team this year to present their version of Dick Whittington! 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 […]