Questors Theatre
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The Questors Theatre is a theatre venue located in Ealing, west London, and home of The Questors, a non-professional theatre company. The Questors was founded in 1929 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 (replacing the converted church which had previously been home to The Questors), and was one of the first in a new wave of thrust stage theatres in Britain. The site also contains a studio theatre (the Constantin Stanislavsky Room, built as a rehearsal room in 1960 and converted into a studio theatre in 1968), three rehearsal rooms (the Bernard Shaw Room built in 1958; the Michael Redgrave Room, opened in 1968 converted from part of the original Mattock Lodge built in the early 1850s; and the Alfred Emmet Room built in 1998), as well as a members’ bar (The Grapevine, opened in 1959 converted from part of the original Mattock Lodge). 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 (2006) President of The Questors is Dame Judi Dench.
