Here you can watch new and popular plays every week. We deliver a full season of professional-quality productions and provide a performance venue for touring theatre companies. Anyone can get involved; become a Questors member and take part in everything from acting and directing to lighting, front of house and stage design. We also deliver theatre training for all ages; find out about our Academy and Youth Theatre.
There are lots of reasons to discover The Questors:
You'll enjoy our theatre.
We perform in our own high-quality theatre venue - with our 350-seat
Judi Dench Playhouse & 90-seat Studio theatre.You'll enjoy our
plays. Every year we stage a season of 15-20 plays, from modern dramas
& comedies to classics of British & world theatre.
You'll enjoy our high quality. We're a member of the Society of Independent Theatres & one of the biggest drama groups in London.
You'll enjoy our friendliness.
Our front of house team are all Questors members. Our Grapevine bar
features in the Good Beer Guide & is recognised by CAMRA.
It's 1759 and in the English countryside, a young woman faces a death sentence for a gruesome crime. Desperate to avoid execution, she claims to be pregnant. This assertion leads to an extraordinary gathering of twelve women, pulled from their daily lives and tasked with deciding her fate. In a world dominated by men, this rare moment of female authority is both disruptive and empowering.
From the author of Olivier Award winning play Chimerica, Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin is a thrilling and witty exploration of power, social responsibility and the burden of women in a patriarchal society.
“A somber yet witty play set in 18th-century England ... a clever perversion of a courtroom drama" New York Times
"a delicious blend of eighteenth-century satire, twentieth-century morality play and fizzy postmodern inventiveness" Times Literary Supplement
Info
Friday 1 to Saturday 9 November at 7:45pm, except Sunday 3 November at 2:30pm.
No show on Monday 4 November.
Tickets:
Standard: £10-£24
Concessions: £8-£22 Age advisory 16+
This amateur production of The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood
is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.
