🚨FINAL CHANCE: Calling all emerging theatre directors - today is your last opportunity to apply for RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award 2024! You could win the chance to direct a mid-scale production on our main stage & on tour to Mercury Theatre & Rose Theatre ⬇️

Doorstep Duets with New Adventures is back! We'll be at Martello Tower, Jaywick on Tue 3 Sep, 11am and Lion Walk, Colchester on Wed 4 Sep, 11.30am. There will also be some private performances for local care homes, hospices and more! Find out more: buff.ly/4e1ZM4I.

The Mercury Theatre in Colchester will welcome two plays this month from Edinburgh Fringe, the Fringe First award-winning My Mother’s Funeral: The Show and the return of I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life @MercuryTheatre buff.ly/3MrMzGK

Just over two weeks until My Mother's Funeral: The Show comes to our Studio from Tue 17 - Sat 21 Sep. See Kelly Jones's powerful and witty production straight after it wowed audiences at @EdFringe. Don't miss out - book here: buff.ly/3MvLm14

Tomorrow (Wed 4 Sep) from 7-9pm, our Mercury Creatives will be at Harlow Playhouse for a networking event. Come along and join us! Find out more: mercurytheatre.co.uk/mercurycreativ…

📀 Time to hit the #AbigailsParty cast turntable! 📀 Chaya Gupta plays Angela, who has been in The Government Inspector (Marylebone Theatre) and Hansel and Gretel (Shakespeare’s Globe). See it in Colchester from Wed 2 - Sat 12 Oct: buff.ly/3TeJopw

Find out if the cast of Abigail's Party can do any party tricks, what their favourite drinks are and who their dream guests would be 🐱🍸🥃 🎉 💃 This is the party to end all parties, and you're all invited. RSVP. 2023 Winner of the prestigious RTST Sir Peter Hall Director

My Mother’s Funeral: The Show is a new play by local creative, Kelly Jones, that tackles the inequalities around death, and the cost of turning your loved ones into art, with power and playfulness. See this award-winning show in our Studio from 17-21 Sep: buff.ly/3AJlLiz

What a treat! 🤩 Lucky shoppers in the city centre were entertained by a pop-up performance of world-class dance this morning from Matthew Bourne's New Adventures! 💃🕺 Thanks to the Mercury Theatre for bringing it to Colchester 🙌

From 9.30am-2pm on Sat 7 Sep, visit our Piazza for the Colchester Farmer’s Market! Expect the usual line-up of fabulous stalls, PLUS our own Mercury stage management team will have a one-off stall with wares from past Mercury show! What will you find?!

The arresting debut play, I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life, by award-winning writer Emma-Louise Howell returns to the Mercury following its 5* critically acclaimed run at Edinburgh Fringe. From Sat 28 - Sun 29 Sep, book now: buff.ly/4cWv106

📀 Join our #AbigailsParty cast record collection! 📀 Amy Rockson plays Susan, mother of the eponymous Abigail. Credits include Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story and Dr Faustus (Royal Shakespeare Company). Runs from Wed 2 - Sat 12 Oct, book now: buff.ly/3APk57f

"It's set in space, no one in space is on benefits." Our next Mercury Original, My Mother's Funeral: The Show, runs in our Studio from Tue 17-Sat 21 Sep with tickets from £4. Don't miss this powerful award-winning production, book your tickets now: buff.ly/3TiQ9Xu

We’re excited to announce, after 6 amazing years, DABB Generals Day is expanding! This autumn, in association with Mercury Creatives at the Mercury Theatre in Colchester! Submissions open 27th Sept 2024! Stay tuned by signing up for our newsletter at dabbofficial.com.

After a couple of quiet weeks getting ready for our Autumn season, we're back with a bang! 🎭😂🎶 We can't wait to welcome Russell Kane, Lee Mead, Buffy ReVamped and The Comedy Network and Rock for Heroes this week. 🎟 Last call for tickets: mercurytheatre.co.uk/events/

🕺OPEN REHEARSAL💃 We're back! Fresh off a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Edinburgh Fringe run, we're back in rehearsals for I REALLY DO THINK THIS WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE & we're opening them up for you to join us. 14:00 - 16:30 Mercury Theatre Email [email protected] to reserve a spot 🔥

Who would you invite to your dream dinner party? Batman? Whoopi Goldberg? Why not both? #AbigailsParty cast members Leander Deeny and Laura Rogers plan their perfect party! Book now for Wed 2 - Sat 12 Oct: buff.ly/3z68xMD

"You have to do unpaid work to get the money in order to do paid work" Emma-Louise Howell and Kelly Jones talk about the struggles of being a playwright today. Support local writing with My Mother's Funeral: The Show, from 17-21 Sep, and book your tickets here: buff.ly/4cXzIqE

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Huge break a leg wishes to our friends at Northern Stage, director Jack Bradfield and the fantastic cast of #AbigailsParty, who have their first preview tonight! Rose Theatre ETT Arriving in Colchester next month: buff.ly/3B6gWjF