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Rosemary organises visits to Questors Theatre, Mattock Lane, Ealing several times a year whenever there is a production in the main theatre that takes place with a weekend matinee. Plus occasional matinees at other theatres

Rosemary is currently selling tickets for the following productions:

Richmond Theatre, "The 39 Steps" (a version where over 100 parts are played by 4 actors- I saw it in the West end and it was very entertaining) on Wednesday 3rd April 2.30pm £32 centre stalls. I have to pay for this in early January so need the money before Christmas I'm afraid.

Please note that as a couple of people can't go, Rosemary is selling their tickets for them (£32), so some tickets are available.

Questors, "Single Spies" by Alan Bennett (A comedy double bill), Sunday, 24th March 2024, 2.30pm, tickets: £10

Questors, "Julius Caesar", Sunday, 28th April, 2.30pm , tickets: £10 - details to follow when available.

“Questors Studio": Rosemary has asked Questors if she could get discounted tickets for the Studio and finally they have said she can have 20 tickets @ £10 for ”Slaves of Solitude” on May 5th 2.30pm.
The Studio is a small theatre with unreserved seating but the quality of the productions is just as good as in the main theatre.

Questors, "Tom Jones", Sunday, 26th May, 2.30pm, tickets: £10 - details to follow when available.

“Questors Studio": "Medea", Sunday 2nd June, 2.30pm tickets: £10 - details to follow when available.

Tickets for regular Questors productions will continue to be £10 (from £13), whilst the panto price is £14 (from £18), and the operetta price is £15 (from £18).

For full details of each Theatre Outing production for which Rosemary will be purchasing tickets, please see Dates for your Diary below or the EVENTS page.

Please note: Members are invited to contact Rosemary if they would like to go on a mailing list in order to keep up to date with next outings. Everyone who has bought a ticket this year has been added, but there are others who just want to see what might be coming up.

Convener: Rosemary Hart, contact by mail through the blue bird above at the top of this page.

Dates for your Diary
Wed Apr 3rd

Richmond Theatre

Date: 3rd April 2024
Time: 2:30 pm
Tickets: £32 Centre Stalls

"The 39 Steps" (a version where over 100 parts are played by 4 actors- I saw it in the West end and it was very entertaining).

Rosemary has (due to a mistake!) one or two tickets left, so it's first come, first served!

Members can contact Rosemary Hart, by email via the blue bird icon in the Theatre Outings group page.

Sun May 5th Date: 5th May 2024
Time: 2.30pm
Tickets: £10

The Slaves of Solitude by Simon Roberts, Adapted from the novel by Patrick Hamilton.

WWII black comedy by the author of Gas Light

Heard of ‘gaslighting’? Know where it comes from? It’s from Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play, Gas Light, later adapted for two films (one British, one US), hugely successful in both countries.  His popular novels (e.g. Hangover SquareTwenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, The Gorse Trilogy) include The Slaves of Solitude. Simon Roberts (leading Questors actor and director and passionate Hamilton enthusiast) has now adapted the novel for the stage - and this will be the World Première. (Questors audiences may remember Simon’s striking production of Rope in 2014. Hitchcock directed the film.) 

In 1943 an ill-assorted group of lodgers in a boarding house a few miles outside London are eking out a wartime existence in safety (they hope) from the trauma of the Blitz. The are joined unexpectedly by two wayward and pleasure-seeking GIs and an attractive German-born lady, who divides opinion. At the centre of the plot is Miss Enid Roach, approaching middle-age and rootless. Hamilton cleverly links the vastness of devastating world events with the pared-back lives of the residents thrown against their will into a different form of strife. 

You’d expect some darkness from the author of Gas Light – but this is a black comedy weaved around a group of random strangers forced into proximity in the middle of the black-out. 

Members can contact Rosemary Hart, by email via the blue bird icon in the Theatre Outings group page.
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