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 is 1989. Katerina Turenkova, survivor of the
Soviet Gulag and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is living as a
recluse in a remote house in the Peak District, surrounded by barbed wire and
watched over by CCTV cameras.
For ten years she has produced no new work, claiming that she suffers from
writers’ block. But is there more to her reluctance to publish a further novel?
In Berlin the wall is about to come down, and in the USSR the spirit of
perestroika is causing huge shifts of power. Just why does Katerina need to live in
self imposed incarceration? And what is she afraid of?
The arrival of three students anxious to persuade Katerina to let them stage a production
of her most famous novel is the starting point for this taut political
thriller.
Bird on the Wire is a gripping and darkly humorous
exploration of betrayal in every form – political, personal and sexual. This is
the first performance of a new play by Brian Abbott, whose last play, No Fairy Tale, was also premiered at
Questors in 2014.
'Brilliant brilliant brilliant!' - Anton Lesser, star of Wolf Hall and Game of Thrones 'Deft and fluid direction' - audience member 'Committed and brave acting' - audience member 'A play that makes you think, re-consider, and think again' - audience member
