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Sleeping Beauty – Adults Only

This years pantomime Sleeping Beauty is being given a saucy adult make-over…for ONE NIGHT ONLY! Following the success of our adult-only version of Dick Whittington – the team will be casting their naughty, mischievous spell onto Sleeping Beauty! Will the Princess Beauty fall asleep for one hundred years?Will the dashing Prince save her?Will Nurse Moneypenny […]

Shout or Whisper Open Mic

This is Shout or Whisper’s biggest event to date! For one night only, we shall be at the wonderful Queen Mother Theatre Studio. As before, we are looking for poets, novelists, song writers, musicians and anyone who has ever written anything in anger or joy or contemplation. Anyone who takes to the stage will receive […]

Present Laughter

At the centre of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old, says his wife, to be having numerous affairs. His line in harmless, infatuated debutantes is largely tolerated but playing closer to home is not. Just before he escapes on tour to Africa the full extent of his misdemeanours […]

Mostly Comedy – June 2024

Hitchin’s popular comedy club continues its 2024 season at the QUEEN MOTHER THEATRE. Join host DAVID EPHGRAVE for a mixed bill of the best names in comedy. 20th June’s Hitchin line-up features: Stand-up from JOSIE LONG (BBC New Comedy Award & EdFringe Best Newcomer winner. Three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee) (Seen on ‘Have I Got […]

Mostly Comedy – May 2024

Hitchin’s popular comedy club continues its current season at the QUEEN MOTHER THEATRE. Join host DAVID EPHGRAVE for a mixed bill of the best names in comedy. 23rd May’s Hitchin line-up features: Stand-up from ROBIN INCE (Time Out Outstanding Achievement Award-winner. Three-time Chortle Comedy Award-winner, and British Comedy Award nominee) (Co-host of BBC Radio […]

Laramie Project

By Moises Kaufman and Members of the Tectonic Theater Project Big Spirit Youth Theatre presents The Laramie Project, a deeply complex portrait of a community’s response to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man living in Laramie, Wyoming. In a series of poignant reflections, the residents of Laramie react to the hate […]

Midsummer Nights Dream

The Bancroft Juniors present William Shakespeare magical classic; A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Following on from the successful rendition of Romeo & Juliet earlier this year, the wonderful Juniors continue their Shakespearean theme with a tale of fairies, love and comedy in one of Shakespeare’s timeless classics.

One Life (12)

ONE LIFE tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker played by Johnny Flynn, who, along with Trevor Chadwick (played by Alex Sharp) and Doreen Warinner (played by Romola Garai) of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia, rescued 669 children from the Nazis in the months leading up to […]

Anatomy of a Fall (15)

A woman is suspected of her husband’s murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness. Tantalising and gripping to the end. What is a marriage? Cannes Palme D’Or winner. Director(s): Justine Triet Runtime: 152 Certification: 15 Production Year: 2023 Cast: Swann Arlaud, Sandra Hüller, Milo Machado Graner REVIEW | TRAILER

Zone of Interest (12a)

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp. Given the subject matter you may be surprised by this film. It presents a massive juxtaposition. You never see inside the camp but the soundscape tells you […]