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Annual Winter Fundraising Quiz

Join us for a fun and friendly evening filled with music, tricky questions, seasonal cheer and plenty of laughs. Whether you’re a pro quizzer or simply looking for a great night out, gather your team and compete for the top spot.

Your ticket includes a welcome drink and a Mince Pie, so you can celebrate the season in style while putting your general knowledge to the test. Plus, there’ll be a fundraising raffle with fantastic prizes generously donated by local businesses.

Come along for the quiz, enjoy the Christmas cheer and help support your local theatre.

Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch is a registered charity, so every ticket, raffle entry and donation helps support the Theatre and its future. Ticket sales alone don’t cover the true cost of keeping our doors open. Your support helps us support artists and young people, work with local communities, make theatre accessible and bring great experiences to audiences for generations to come.

A few things to know:
Tables seat 6–8 people. Groups of five or fewer may be seated with other quizzers – a great chance to meet new people.
Only food and drink purchased at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch may be consumed on the premises.
We are a cashless venue, but can accept cash donations and cash for raffle tickets during the event.

Centre Stage Scratch Night

Join Havering Changing for Centre Stage – a vibrant showcase of top Essex/East London deaf, disabled, and neuro-divergent talent!

Dive into our scratch night: a relaxed evening of fresh ideas, short works-in-progress, live feedback, food, music, performances, and community fun.

This event will take place in the Main Performance Hall at MyPlace, 343 Dagnam Park Drive, Harold Hill, RM3 9EN

Acts for the evening:

Caro Sparks
Ebony Rose Dark
Wendy Young
Deaf Rave (with DJ Jeffo)

(Acts are subject to change with no warning)

Pinney Talfourd’s – Christmas at Queen’s Charity Carol Concert

This joyous event is to raise vital funds for Aching Arms and the Queen’s Theatre Charitable Trust. Enjoy beautiful carols performed by the local community in a welcoming, festive atmosphere. Bring your loved ones, enjoy seasonal refreshments, and make a meaningful difference this Christmas. While tickets are free, donations are warmly encouraged to support these deserving causes. Don’t miss this special opportunity to celebrate the season and help brighten the holidays for those in need.

Suggested donation £5.

Movement & Mindfulness

Suitable for everyone whatever your age or health condition. The class is seated and standing with chair options offered throughout.

Learn simple breathing techniques, hand exercises and tapping practices to reduce tension, anxiety and brain fog, improve sleep and promote good mental health and general wellbeing.

Participants can bring a yoga mat if they have one. New starters please arrive 10 mins early.

Make it for Mark Fundraising Evening

Join us for a special variety evening, in memory of our dearly loved friend and colleague Mark Griffiths. The best and brightest of local theatre talent will present an evening of improvisation, original songs and theatre for your entertainment. The performances will be followed by a chance to socialise, mingle and of course, raise a glass at our bar.

The money raised at this event will go towards supporting local theatre and helping to fund backstage training, causes both very close to Mark’s heart. Thank you for your generous support.

The College Players present A Pain In The Neck

A horribly entertaining evening is guaranteed as a murder is committed in plain sight during a Fright Night event, where blood and screams are all around so nobody takes any notice. Using your detective skills and powers of deduction, can you follow the clues and identify the murderer who is killing the reputation of the Police?

As the actors dress up for Fright Night, old skeletons start coming out of the shadows. Everyone seems to have an old score to settle, but only one of them has murder in mind. With laughs and screams, motives and suspects, this promises to be a ‘bloody’ good night out!

ELE Playwriting Group Presentation

A celebration of ten years of new drama brought to you on stage at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch by emerging local playwrights.
TENTH is a special showcase to celebrate ten years of new writing and development by local playwrights in the ELE (East London & Essex) Playwriting Group.

The show is a selection of new works performed in a special rehearsed reading with professional directors and actors.
ELE Group is a member-led group of writers that meets monthly at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and participates in the theatre’s Outer Limits local talent development initiative.

Age guidance 12+.

Centre Stage Scratch Night

Join Havering Changing and Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch for Centre Stage – a vibrant showcase of top Essex/East London deaf, disabled, and neuro-divergent talent!

Dive into our scratch night: a relaxed evening of fresh ideas, short works-in-progress, live feedback, food, music, performances, and community fun.

The line up of acts:

Jodie Mitchell

Award-winning Drag King, comedian, writer and podcaster Jodie Mitchell co-founded the queer women, trans, and non‑binary comedy collective The LOL Word, and writes and performs as their macho Glaswegian alter‑ego John Travulva with Pecs Drag Kings—winning an Off‑Broadway Award in 2020. They have appeared on Comedy Central Live and Channel 4’s Jokes Only A Lesbian Can Tell, and served as a writer on Season 3 of Netflix’s Sex Education.

Jo-Anne Cox

Jo-anne Cox is a creative performer/composer. As well as performing solo, she collaborates with artists and musicians, playing with bands and ensembles. She is a composer of seriously sensuous work for electric cello who loves cross-artform collaboration, audience interactive performance and sensory experiences. She draws audiences into her sonic worlds through her intimate and alluring performances.

Miss Jacqui

Miss Jacqui is a dynamic artist, celebrated for her powerful poetry and soulful music. As a Spoken Word Artist and Songwriter, she masterfully blends words and melodies into messages that are both thought-provoking and inspiring.

Deaf Rave

Founder Troi “DJ Chinaman” Lee began with a vision to give Deaf, Hearing and Disabled Artists and performers a platform to display their love for music. Deaf Rave provides entertainment with music, sign song and visual performances to an all-inclusive audience, globally and across the UK.

OPERA FOR ALL

80 Voices. Two Nights Only.

Hosted by Ian Skelly, BBC Radio 3, join us for two enchanting evenings and enjoy a mesmerizing performance featuring our talented local community chorus and award-winning special guests.

Never been to opera? Perfect. This is for you.

Love opera? Perfect. This is for you.

Enjoy a selection of classical opera pieces full of passion, spectacle and drama. The programme offers a range of pieces in differing styles from different periods, including Bizet’s Carmen; Verdi’s Nabucco and la Traviata; Handel’s Acis & Galatea; Mozart’s The Magic Flute; Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George and Anyone Can Whistle.

No dress code. No prior knowledge. Just great music right here in our community – book now!

Sip & Sketch

After the success of the last Sip and Sketch at the theatre, we are pleased to invite you yet again for an evening of portrait drawing, with a professional model, in the setting of Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, featuring props from the theatre stores.

No experience needed- just come along on your own or with friends to enjoy getting to know people and most importantly having a laugh! If you have access to drawing equipment, bring it along but there will be supplies for anyone that needs them.

This delightful evening promises a relaxed atmosphere perfect for sipping a drink, sketching portraits and discovering some of the theatre’s most interesting hats, glasses and head pieces.

Tickets are £12* (+70p QNext fee) which includes a drink on entry.

This event is 16+