Questors Theatre
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| Questors Theatre | |
| Address |
12 Mattock Lane
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| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Type | community theatre |
| Opened | 1964 |
| www.questors.org.uk | |
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The Questors Theatre is a theatre venue located in the London Borough of Ealing, West London. It is home of The Questors, a non-professional theatre company.
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[edit] History
The Original Building and house, Mattock Lodge, was owned by the Webb sisters who rented out the building/old chapel (Father O'Haloran) to The Questors Theatre Company. To this day the original house exists alongside the new and extensive facilities. The Questors was founded in 1929[citation needed] and – pursuing an adventurous artistic policy led by the late Alfred Emmet – has grown into one of the largest non-professional theatre companies in the world. The Questors Theatre building was opened in 1964[citation needed], replacing the converted church which had previously been home to The Questors; it was one of the first in a new wave of thrust stage theatres in Britain.
[edit] Site
As well as the original building, the site contains a studio theatre (the Constantin Stanislavsky Room; this was built as a rehearsal room in 1960 and converted into a studio theatre in 1968. There are also three rehearsal rooms. One of these is the Bernard Shaw Room, this was built in 1958. Another, the Michael Redgrave Room, opened in 1968; this was converted from part of the original Mattock Lodge which was built in the early 1850s. This third is the Alfred Emmet Room, this was built in 1998. There is also a members’ bar, The Grapevine. This opened in 1959 and was also converted from part of the original Mattock Lodge.
[edit] Courses
In 1946 The Questors developed a part-time Student Acting Course based on the acting techniques of Konstantin Stanislavski, which it still runs. The current[1] President of The Questors is Dame Judi Dench[2].
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ As of April 2007
- ^ The Questors Theatre: Who's Who, <http://www.questors.org.uk/us/who.html>. Retrieved on 6 April 2007
