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Bette and Joan, by Anton Burge. Directed by Elliott Bunker. Audition Dates:Mon 9th & Wed 11th July 2018 at 7.45pm. Performance Dates: 31st October to 3rd November 2018.

By 1962, two of the silver screen’s great leading ladies, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, were has-beens. The women – both famed for playing strong independent characters, both with difficult personal lives and both a long way past 40 – had been replaced by a new breed of perky blonde stars.

Then they got an unexpected opportunity: playing opposite each other in what was to become a cult classic, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?

A Bunch Of Amateurs, by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. Directed By David Lester. Audition Dates:Tue 19th & Thu 21st June 2018 at 7.45pm. Performance Dates:21st – 29th September 2018 (8 nights, to be confirmed).

This will be a fun play to do with the added challenge of how to be convincing as an amateur actor. And it comes with acting out some scenes from King Lear!

Keen to boost his flagging career, fading Hollywood action hero Jefferson Steele arrives in England to play King Lear in Stratford – only to discover that this is not the birthplace of the Bard, but a sleepy Suffolk village. And instead of Kenneth Branagh and Dame Julie Dench, the cast are amateurs trying to save their theatre from developers. Jefferson’s ego, vanity and insecurity are tested to the limit by our enthusiastic amateur thespians. As acting worlds collide and Jefferson’s career implodes, he discovers some truths about himself.

“The Father” by Florian Zeller, translated into English by Christopher Hampton. Audition Dates: Mon 25th & Wed 27th Jun 2018 at 7.45pm. Performance Dates: 17th – 20th Oct 2018 in the Richard Whitmore Studio.

“The Father” is a French play that deals with the gradual development of dementia of the eponymous part. During the action we see the world from inside of his head as things seem to become more and more topsy-turvy

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare. Audition Dates: Mon 12th & Wed 14th March 2018 at 7.45pm. Performance Dates:2nd-7th uly 2018.

The QMT summer production is normally a show for all-comers. We like to field a large cast and this year it is co-production between The Bancroft Players and our famous Big Spirit Youth Theatre.

A Midsummer’s Dream by William Shakespeare of course needs no introduction – it’s by far the Bard’s funniest and most summery piece of work. The show will take place in the QMT as The Dell is not open to us. However, we will bring the warmth of a lovely summer evening into the Theatre with a very special and magical production.

“Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons” by Sam Steiner. Directed by Russell Hurn. Audition Dates: Mon 26th & Wed 28th Mar 2018 at 7.45pm. Performance Dates: 6th – 9th Jun 2018 in the Richard Whitmore Studio.

Yes, there really are that many lemons!

This demanding two header award-winning play about relationships and communication originally premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe and explores the impact of the government’s controversial ‘Hush’ Law, which imposes a rationing of spoken words to 140 per person, per day.

Quartet by Ronald Harwood. Directed by Elliott Bunker. Audition Dates: Tue 6th & Thur 8th Feb 2018 at 8pm. Performance Dates: 15th to 20th May 2018.

The setting is a retirement home for musicians. Three elderly former opera-singers, who often worked together, are sitting out on the terrace. Reginald, is quietly reading a serious book, but Wilfred is chuckling about sex, as he regards Cissy, lying back and listening to music through her headphones.

They are about to be joined by newcomer Jean, who was a major star in her day and to whom Reginald was once unhappily married.

The Effect Lucy Prebble. Directed by Sam Powell. Audition Dates: Mon 11th & Wed 13th Dec 2017 at 7.45pm. Performance Dates: 14th – 17th Mar 2018

The Effect is a clinical romance – winner of Best New Play, Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards 2012. Two young volunteers agree to take part in a pharmaceutical drugs trial. This funny, moving play explores questions of sanity, neurology and the limits of medicine, asking what makes us who we are and how we love.

Sex With A Stranger by Stefan Golaszweski. Directed by Cliff Francis. Audition Dates: Mon 23rd & Wed 25th Oct 2017 at 7.45pm. Performance Dates: 17th – 20th Jan 2018

Adam meets Grace in a club. They go back to hers. Earlier that day, Adam’s girlfriend Ruth watches as he prepares for his big night out ‘with the boys.’ Bleak, funny and excruciatingly accurate, Sex with a Stranger examines what it is to be your twenties, lonely, hollow and uncertain in 21st century Britain.

A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller. Directed by Edith Pratt. Audition Dates: Tue 10th & Thur 12th October 2017 at 7.45pm. Performance Dates: 26th February – 3rd March 2018

A View from the Bridge is Arthur Miller’s tragic masterpiece the story of a man fighting against himself. The play is set in the 1950s. Eddie Carbone is an Italian American longshoreman who lives with his wife, Beatrice and his orphaned niece, Catherine. They live in an insular, self-ruled neighbourhood in the shadow of Brooklyn Bridge. Eddie is protective and kind toward Catherine. However, as the play develops we learn that his feelings are something more than that of an uncle.

A Christmas Carol. Directed by Alison Hudson. Audition Dates: Mon 4th & Wed 6th September 2017 at 7.45pm. Performance Dates: 8th-10th & 15th-17th December 2017 (matinees Saturdays and Sundays).

Christmas, the most wonderful time of the year… well it is for everyone except the miserable miserly Scrooge. He has no time for friends, family or fun, celebrating Christmas with misery and meanness rather than mistletoe and merriment. Bah Humbug! But one dark, cold Christmas Eve, Scrooge is paid a surprise visit by the ghost of Marley who tells him that he will be called upon by three spirits each of whom will take him on a magical and mysterious journey to reveal the error of his ways. But can Scrooge really change in time for Christmas day, and discover the true wonder and meaning of Christmas?