- Questors Theatre
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name = Questors Theatre
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address = 12 Mattock Lane
city =London
country = UK
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latitude = 51.5097
longitude = -0.3172
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type =community theatre
opened =1964
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website = www.questors.org.uk
The Questors Theatre is a theatre venue located in theLondon Borough of Ealing ,West London . It is home of The Questors, a non-professional theatre company.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 1929Fact|date=March 2007 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 1964Fact|date=March 2007, 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.ite
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, theMichael 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.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 [As of April 2007] President of The Questors is DameJudi Dench [Citation
title = The Questors Theatre: Who's Who
url =http://www.questors.org.uk/us/who.html
accessdate = 2007-04-06 ] .External links
*http://www.questors.org.uk
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