spring/summer 2018 queens-theatre.co.uk SAVE UP TO 45% ON THE BEST SEATS N SEAtSicOkets See three shows for £14 per show from £42 Tuesday to Thursday, or previews and Saturday matinees - a saving of £37 on top-price tickets. Upgrade to Premium to include Friday and £52 Saturday evenings – a saving of up to £36 on top-price tickets. Pre-order all three programmes for a saving of £4.50 Book by Saturday 3 March 2018 T&C’s apply. For more information and to book, call the Box Office where one of our lovely team are on hand to help. 3 and welcome to Hello our new season Firstly, we’d love to say a big thank you to We’re delighted to be hosting our first ever everyone who voted for us in 2017’s UK Take Part Festival, which will showcase the Theatre Awards for Most Welcoming fantastic work performed and presented by Theatre in the East. We’re overjoyed to local young people. This includes our youth have been crowned with this title for the theatre and dance groups as well as brilliant second year running and we couldn’t have school and community groups. done it without your loyal support. There’s also a selection of fantastic We’re also celebrating a huge milestone entertainment lined up for families including this year, the Queen’s Theatre is 65 years the Chinese New Year Extravaganza, young! We hope you will join us throughout Teddy Bears’ Picnic, The Big Pop Party, the year to mark the occasion. Milkshake! – Live, The Gruffalo’s Child The season opens with the chilling thriller Rope and Pop Divas – Live! by Patrick Hamilton, which is based on real life We hope you enjoy this season of limitless events and was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in entertainment, there’s something for everyone 1948. It’s followed by the heart-warming drama, at prices for everyone. Kindertransport by Diane Samuels, marking the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransport. Finally, disco royalty rolls into town with the glamorously feel-good musical, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. You can enjoy all three of these shows for the price of one West End ticket with our Jump the Q season ticket. Douglas Rintoul (Artistic Director) Our visiting programme includes The Game of & Mathew Russell (Executive Director) Love & Chai, Marivaux’s classic romantic comedy which has been brilliantly updated by Nigel Planer and the phenomenal mod musical, All or Nothing featuring hits by the Small Faces. Contents The big shows 4 Your Turn – performances Outer Limits – new by our community 33 performance by local artists 13 Learning & Participation 34 Shows for children Support us 38 and families 14 Information 40 Comedy, live music Calendar 42 & guest performances 21 4 15 February – 3 March 5 Made with Queen’s A Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and Theatre New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich production Thriller Rope by Patrick Hamilton A chilling and spine-tinglingly Director Douglas Rintoul gripping thriller. Designer Ruari Murchison Two well-bred young men murder a Lighting Designer Mark Dymock fellow Oxford student just for the fun Sound Designer Yvonne Gilbert of it. Placing the corpse in a wooden TICKETS: £12.50 - £29 box, they invite a group of friends over Under 26s £8 (Tue - Thu & previews) to their Mayfair apartment – including the loving mother of the boy they’ve 15 February - 3 March Tue & Wed | 7.30pm just killed. Supper is served on the chest Thu, Fri & Sat | 8pm holding the gruesome contents. But one of their guests is starting Previews to become suspicious… Thu 15 & Fri 16 Feb | 8pm Will this daring pair get away with their Matinees cat and mouse games? Thu 22 & Sat 24 Feb | 2.30pm Thu 1 & Sat 3 Mar | 2.30pm Based on a 1920’s real life case, this dark classic, brilliantly evoking a jazz Audio Description via a headset is age generation, was filmed by Alfred available at every performance. Hitchcock in 1948 and remains to this Touch tours are available, please book by day one of the most tightly coiled calling the Box Office on 01708 443333. of thrillers. Sign Language Interpreted performance This major revival from the producers Wed 28 Feb | 7.30pm of Made in Dagenham is directed by Queen’s Theatre’s Artistic Director Talk Back | Free Douglas Rintoul (The Crucible, Much Wed 28 Feb A chance to meet and question the Ado About Nothing). company after the show. Age guidance 11+ Rope is generously Save up to 45% on the best seats with Queen’s a season ticket. See Theatre Club page 2 for details. 6 8 - 24 March 7 Made with Queen’s Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, Les Théâtres Theatre de la Ville de Luxembourg in association rama with Selladoor Productions present D Kindertransport by Diane Samuels A deeply moving and timely modern Director Anne Simon classic about a woman’s struggle to Designer Marie-Luce Theis come to terms with her past. Lighting Designer Nic Farman Hamburg 1938: nine year-old Eva is Sound Designer Adrienne Quartley forced onto a train by her desperate TICKETS: £12.50 - £29 mother in order to escape the threat of Under 26s £8 (Tue - Thu & previews) World War II. Arriving at Liverpool Street 8 - 24 March Station, tagged like a piece of luggage, Tue & Wed | 7.30pm she’s handed over to strangers. Thu, Fri & Sat | 8pm Manchester 1980: Evelyn, a proud mum, Previews prepares to say goodbye to daughter Thu 8 & Fri 9 Mar | 8pm Faith as she leaves the family home. Matinees But what Faith finds in the attic will Thu 15, Sat 17, Thu 22 & Sat 24 Mar | 2.30pm change her life forever… Audio Described performance This heart-warming production is from Sat 24 Mar | 2.30pm the producers of last year’s acclaimed revival of The Crucible. It marks the 80th Sign Language Interpreted performance anniversary of the Kindertransport, which Wed 21 Mar | 7.30pm saw thousands of Jewish children ferried Talk Back | Free from Austria and Germany to safety. Wed 21 Mar A chance to meet and question the Diane Samuels wrote this extraordinary company after the show. and haunting play 25 years ago. It has never been more relevant than today. Tour Dates Tue 27 – Sat 31 Mar ‘Samuels has written the best play Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg about the pain and passion of Tue 17 – Sat 21 Apr mother/daughter relationships’ New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich The Guardian Tue 24 – Sat 28 Apr Richmond Theatre ‘Serious theatre, seriously done’ Tue 1 – Sat 5 May The Stage on The Crucible Opera House Manchester Age guidance 11+ Save up to 45% on the best seats with a season ticket. See page 2 for details. 8 27 April – 19 May 9 Made at Queen’s Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch presents Theatre s the regional professional premiere of Mu ical Priscilla, Queen of the Desert by Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott Disco royalty rolls into town for a Director Douglas Rintoul glamorously feel-good musical. Musical Director Adam Gerber A trio of unlikely performers set out Choreographer Darragh O’Leary on an adventure across the Australian Lighting Designer Mark Howland outback in a battered old bus named TICKETS: £12.50 - £30 Priscilla, searching for dreams and Under 26s £8 (Tue - Thu & previews) friendship, but discovering much more… 27 April - 19 May This uplifting and heart-warming Tue & Wed | 7.30pm tale has it all - outrageous costumes, Thu, Fri & Sat | 8pm flamboyant choreography and plenty of sass. It’s jam-packed with 70s, 80s Previews Fri 27 & Sat 28 Apr | 8pm and 90s dance floor favourites including Mon 30 Apr | 7.30pm I Will Survive, Hot Stuff, I Say A Little Prayer and Finally. Matinees Thu 3, Sat 5, Thu 10, Sat 12, Thu 17 & Based on the smash hit movie starring Sat 19 May | 2.30pm Terence Stamp and Guy Pearce, audiences of all ages are promised a Audio Described performance highly entertaining new take on an Sat 19 May | 2.30pm iconic musical. So sit back and enjoy: Sign Language Interpreted performance it’s time to feel fabulous! Wed 16 May | 7.30pm ‘Hugely entertaining…’ Talk Back | Free Daily Telegraph Wed 9 May ‘The best feel-good show since A chance to meet and question the company after the show. Mamma Mia!’ Sunday Express Age guidance 14+ Save up to 45% on the best seats with a season ticket. See page 2 for details. 10 19 - 21 April Tara Arts presents Comedy A new version of Marivaux’s romantic This new production forms part of Tara Arts comedy by The Young One’s Nigel Planer. Binglish project, exploring the theatrical Marivaux’s The Game of Love and connections between India and the West, Chance is a classic romantic comedy supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. which pits two false servants against two London based Tara Arts produces cross- false masters with, in the end, the two cultural theatre, bringing together artists couples falling in love with their and audiences in the national home of appropriate counterparts. multicultural theatre, fusing European Nigel Planer brilliantly updates Marivaux’s and Asian theatrical approaches to version to a modern Indian family in reflect modern multicultural realities. England, employing Bollywood song and dance to great comedic effect. TICKETS: £10 | £15 | £20 Marivaux, along with Goldsmith and Thu 19 - Sat 21 Apr | 8pm Sheridan, was one of the first Western playwrights to be produced in India in the Matinee late-18th Century. Sat 21 Apr | 2.30pm 21 - 26 May 11 Rock ‘n’ Roll Productions presents Musical The coolest musical ever.