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BY DANIELLE PEARSON

DIRECTED BY GEORGIE STAIGHT

 

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WORLD PREMIERE

QUEEN MAB

PRODUCTIONS
ABOUT

A suburban street. Out in the garden, I am watching… This is not my first plague.

 

The ancient being, Mab, has watched humans for centuries – and frankly, she’s bored of us! That is until a chance meeting with Freya, a locked-down teen watching her best years slip away. As an unlikely friendship forms, the faerie is reluctantly drawn into the laughter, squabbles, triumphs and anxieties of the Roberts’ family. But when grief threatens their world, can Mab remain an impartial observer?


Inspired by Mercutio’s speech in Romeo & Juliet, through music and storytelling, Queen Mab is a coming-of-age tale for a fifteen-year-old and a five-hundred-year-old alike.

★★★★★ "truly lovely" LondonTheatre1

★★★★★ 'A delight' Reviews Hub

★★★★★ 'Gorgeous' London Pub Theatres

★★★★ 'Magical' North West End

★★★★ 'Lyrical' London City Nights

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PRODUCTION
PHOTOS
TEAM

WRITER

DANIELLE PEARSON

DIRECTOR

GEORGIE STAIGHT

DESIGNER

ISOBEL NICOLSON

SOUND

SAM GLOSSOP

STAGE MANAGER

XANTHE GOODE​

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

ISOBEL WITCOMB

PRODUCED BY FLUX THEATRE

AND ARSALAN SATTARI PRODUCTIONS

WITH IRIS THEATRE

CAST
REHEARSAL
PHOTOS
VIDEOS
PRESS

It’s hard to imagine a feel-good pandemic story, but somehow Queen Mab manages to be just that. Although it’s not always a happy tale, both characters find their way through, and emerge on the other side stronger and with a greater awareness of what’s important to them." 
Theatre Things 

"It is also a chronicle of finding oneself and being comfortable in one’s own skin. Whether human or fairy, it is a lesson for all of us, and this delightful play is as good a place as any to learn."
Reviews Hub

"Queen Mab packs a lot in but never seems rushed and the ending left me with a bit of a mental conundrum. Was Mab real or just the product of a teenage girl’s overactive imagination? Actually, ignore that as it doesn’t matter. Whether real or imagined, this tale of star-linked friendship is a truly lovely way to spend a summer’s evening."
LondonTheatre1

"Queen Mab is a charming, relatable story about the loneliness and confusion that comes with coming of age (during a pandemic), infused with a little sprinkling of magic. With a script that fuses Freya’s contemporary language with Mab’s Shakespearean speech, the play is well suited to its surroundings in the grounds of the seventeenth century church, where the natural sights and sounds of the garden meld with those of the modern world outside."
The Family Stage

Interview with writer Danielle Pearson here.
Theatre Weekly

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