Theatre Outings
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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:
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 | |
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| Sun Apr 28th |
THEATRE OUTING - Questors TheatreProduction: "JULIUS CAESAR" by William Shakespeare Date: Sunday 28th April 2024 A modern reimagining of Shakespeare’s classic... Populism. Polarisation. Post-Truth. Caesar returns to Rome in triumph and is set to tear the Republic apart. The Senators, Brutus and Cassius, conspire to assassinate him to save their democracy; but with no plan for what comes after. Differing motives soon become apparent when principles collide with jealousies and an inescapable political truth. The ambitious Mark Antony turns public opinion against the assassins and plunges the state into civil war. Members can contact Rosemary Hart, by email via the blue bird icon in the Theatre Outings group page to book a ticket or see Rosemary at a Thursday morning meeting. |
| Sun May 5th |
THEATRE OUTING - Questors StudioProduction: 'THE SLAVES OF SOLITUDE' by Simon Roberts, adapted from the novel by Patrick Hamilton Date: Sunday 5th May 2024 WWII black comedy by the author of Gas Light 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. 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 Square, Twenty 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. Members can contact Rosemary Hart, by email via the blue bird icon on this page to book a ticket or see Rosemary at a Thursday morning meeting. |