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.
by Peter Flannery, from the screenplay by Nikita Mikhalkov and Rustam Ibragimbekov
Taut, atmospheric drama
"Funny, affecting and taut with suspense, Burnt by the Sun is a new play that already feels like a classic." The Telegraph
Adapted from the Oscar-winning film, Burnt by the Sun unfolds near Moscow during the summer of 1936. As an extended family of characters spanning four generations takes breakfast and bickers on the veranda, we might be in the world of The Cherry Orchard. But then news comes that tanks are destroying the villagers' wheat fields.
Suddenly a mysterious stranger arrives who disappeared many years earlier. But why has he returned? And what has he been doing during his absence?
What unfolds is a darker more sinister play, a tense domestic and political drama with some moments of bizarre and almost Chekhovian comedy – leading to a shattering climax.