Lily Dyble announced as Winner of the RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award 2025
Lily Dyble – winner of the 2025 RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award. The Royal Theatrical Support Trust (RTST) and Mercury Theatre, Colchester in partnership with the Rose Theatre, Storyhouse and Northern Stage have today announced Lily Dyble as the…
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Entries open for RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award 2025
L-R: Hannah Stone (2024 runner up), Mark Hawes (Director RTST), Tanuja Amarasuriya (2024 winner), Sir Geoffrey Cass (RTST Chairman), Jasmine Teo (2024 runner up) & Sir Ian McKellen (RTST Trustee). The Royal Theatrical Support Trust and the Mercury Theatre, Colchester…
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Mercury Theatre Announces Initial Mentees Cohort for Mercury Creatives
The Mercury Theatre in Colchester has announced the initial cohort of mentees for the return of their acclaimed mentoring programme Mercury Creatives, funded by Arts Council England, Essex County Council and Tendring District Council for the next three years. The…
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Announcing PROJEKT ELEVATE
PROJEKT EUROPA ANNOUNCES NEW PROGRAMME COLLABORATING WITH THE MERCURY THEATRE TO SUPPORT AND PROMOTE THE WORK OF 3 LOCAL MIGRANT ARTISTS PROJEKT ELEVATE will identify and support 3 migrant artists to develop ideas for co-created work for their own communities,…
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Mercury Youth Theatre – End of Term Round Up
In March, the Coronavirus pandemic meant that our regular Youth Theatre sessions had to stop to ensure our young people’s safety. At the time, our young people had been working on different plays in preparation for their end of term…
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Mercury Theatre Announced as one of four Stage One Regional Hosts for 2020.
We are thrilled to announce that we have been chosen to be a host venue for the Stage One Regional Development Producer Placement in 2020. Stage One’s Trainee Producer Placement scheme offers unique hands-on training and development opportunities for outstanding…
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Mercury Weinberger Playwriting Prize Winners share their work in the Studio
The Mercury Theatre recently presented the two winning entries for the Mercury/Weinberger’s Playwriting Prize. The first was Target Man, winner of the Future Voices Category, written by Mark Starling. Target Man is an imagining of the myriad implications to identity…
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