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- 11-13s Mercury Young Company
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- 18-25s Mercury Young Company
- 2017 Supporters Event
- 2018 Supporters Event
- 5 Soldiers
- 5-10’s Mercury Young Company
- 500 Days of Summer
- 6 Hands Trio
- A Brave Face
- A Celebration Of Black History Month with Lawrence Walker And Powerhouse Gospel Choir
- A Game of Golf
- A Night In With Al Murray
- A Night In with Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
- A Night In with Jacqueline Woodson
- A Night In with Kate Mosse
- A Night In With Layla Saad
- A Night In with Marian Keyes
- A Night In With Michael J. Fox
- A Night In With Nadiya Hussain
- A Night In with Nancy Birtwhistle
- A Night In with Nicky Campbell
- A Night In with Nikesh Shukla
- A Night In with Priyanka Chopra Jonas
- A Night In with Raven Smith
- A Night In With Sandi Toksvig
- A Night In With Tom Allen
- A One Man Protest
- A Pageant
- A Puuuurfect event for schools with Dermot O’Leary
- A Regular Little Houdini
- A Tribute to George Michael – Fastlove
- Act V – Scene 1 Autumn 2017
- Act V – Scene 2 Autumn 2017
- Act V Scene 1 – Spring Term 2018
- Act V Scene 2 – Spring Term 2018
- Acting 101 – Full Course
- Acting 101 – Taster Session
- Adam Henson
- Add to your Experience
- Adopt A Seat
- Adrian Nation In Concert
- Advanced Storytelling for the Stage
- Ain’t Misbehavin’
- Ain’t Misbehavin’
- Aladdin 2015
- All or Nothing
- All Shook Up
- All The Little Lights
- An Audience with Ann Widdecombe
- An Audience With Arthur Smith
- An Audience with Ian Waite and Natalie Lowe – Somewhere in Time
- An Audience with Ian Waite and Oti Mabuse – Rhythm of the Night
- An Audience With Jenni Murray
- An Audience with Kate Humble
- An Audience With Rev Richard Coles
- An Evening of Burlesque
- An Evening of Eric and Ern
- An Evening of Musical Theatre
- An Evening of Musical Theatre – Colchester Institute
- An Evening with Baroness Shirley Williams
- An Evening With Lesley Garrett
- An Evening with Philip Pullman – And His Dark Materials Stars
- An Evening with Sir Michael Parkinson
- An Interesting Evening with Steve Davis
- Andy Parsons – Peak Bullsh*t
- Animal Farm
- Animation Shorts
- Annie
- Annual Colchester Lecture – General the Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL
- Annual Colchester Lecture – The Making of Modern Parliament
- Antigone
- Arlene! The Glitz. The Glamour. The Gossip.
- Arthur Smith: SYD
- Arts Award Gold
- Arts Award Silver
- Ask The Candidates
- Ask the Candidates: General Election Hustings
- Ask The Candidates: General Election Hustings
- Avenue Q
- Babe In Arms ticket
- Babe, The Sheep-Pig
- Backstage Tour – Babe
- Backstage Tour – Bang Bang
- Backstage Tour – Dick Whittington
- Backstage Tour – Moll Flanders
- Backstage Tour – Much Ado About Nothing
- Backstage Tour – Peter Pan
- Backstage Tour – Pieces of String
- Backstage Tour – Snow White
- Backstage Tour – Spamalot
- Backstage Tour – Sweeney Todd
- Backstage Tour- Turn of the Screw
- Ballet Black
- Ballet Central
- BalletBoyz – Fourteen Days
- BANG BANG
- Baskerville
- Baskerville – 5 Minute Sherlock
- Baskerville – Puppetry Workshop
- BBC Essex Quest: Live On Stage
- Beach Boys ‘Smile’
- Behind Doors
- Behind The Stage Supporters Event
- Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom
- Betty Blue Eyes
- Big Chris Barber Band
- Big Girls Don’t Cry
- Bin Laden – The One Man Show
- Black, Essex and Here
- Borders by Henry Naylor
- Bright Azzuro Sea
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Rock
- Bring On The Bollywood Online Stream
- Britain’s Got Magic
- Bully Boy
- Carol Klein – Life in a Cottage Garden
- Caroline’s Kitchen
- Cathy
- Champions of Magic
- Changes Two Bowie
- Chas and Dave
- Chinese New Year Gala 2017
- Christmas Carol Concert 2019
- Cinderella – Drive In Movies
- Cinderella 2014
- Cinderella 2019
- Cinderella: Online
- Cinderella: Online – For Non-Essex Care Homes
- Cinderella: Online – For Schools
- Classic Rock USA
- Clybourne Park
- Colchester Cultural Feast
- Colchester Cultural Strategy: Hanif Kureishi Evening
- Colchester Military Wives – Valentines Special
- Colchester Military Wives Choir
- Colchester Military Wives Choir 2016
- Colchester New Comedian of the Year
- Colchester New Comedian of the Year 2017
- Colchester PoetrySlam
- Come What May: A Tribute To Moulin Rouge
- Comedy Club On The Road
- Comedy Club on the Road!
- Comedy Shorts
- Community Choir
- Connects
- Connects – Meet LGBTQ+ Creatives
- Connects – Meet The Directors
- Connects – Women Creatives
- Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard’s Tale
- Country Superstars Experience
- CPD – Gecko on Devising Workshop
- CPD Drama4PSHE
- CPD Mercury Theatre: Supporting Resilient Teaching
- CPD: Vamos
- Crafty Drama – Our Kind of Music
- Crafty Drama Presents: Take Two!
- Curious
- Cyber Game
- Dame Nature: The Magnificent Bearded Lady
- Dan Cruickshank – Road To Palmyra
- Danny Baker – Cradle To The Stage
- Dave Finnegan’s Commitments
- David Starkey – A Monarchy of Misfits
- David Starkey on Henry VIII
- Deathtrap
- Des O’Connor
- Dial M for Murder
- Dick Whittington
- Dinosaur World
- Dinosaur World Live
- Disco Divas
- Don’t Tell Him Pike!
- Dracula
- Duality
- Ed Byrne: Spoiler Alert
- Educating Rita
- Elton John: It’s A Little Bit Funny
- Emerging Artists Showcase
- End of the Rainbow
- Equality For All
- Erin’s Diary: An Official Derry Girls Night In
- Essex Steamettes
- Eugene Onegin
- Europe After The Rain
- Europe After The Rain by Oliver Bennett
- Events On A Hotel Terrace
- Fascinating Aida’s Dillie Keane
- Fastlove – A Tribute to George Michael
- Fastlove- Tribute to George Michael
- First Time
- Floodgate by Ryan Cogman
- For The Fallen
- Frankie’s Guys
- Frantic Assembly CPD workshop
- Frantic Assembly Older Peoples Workshop
- Friend or Foe
- Friends Tent Event
- From Made In Colchester to Make It
- Garage Band
- Genesis Connected
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- Getting Better Slowly
- Gin Tasting
- Giovanni Pernice – Born to Win
- Giovanni Pernice – Dance is Life 2019
- Global Enhancers
- Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela
- Graeme Of Thrones
- Grayson Perry – A Show For Normal People
- Grayson Perry – NHS rehearsal
- Great Odds
- Guitar Heroes
- Hairspray
- Half of Me
- Halloween Quiz Night at the Bull
- Hare and Tortoise
- Hello Again – Neil Diamond
- Hello Again -The Story of Neil Diamond
- Hello Dolly
- Henry Blofeld: 78 Retired
- Heritage Open Day Theatre Tours
- Heritage Open Days – Free Tour
- Hervey Benham Technical Apprenticeship Drop-In Sessions
- Hidden
- Holding On
- Honk! – Colchester Institute
- How To – Approach Gig Theatre
- How To – Approach Queer Performances
- How To – Develop your personal resilience toolkit
- How To – Kick-Start Your Script With Paines Plough
- How To – Make Zoom Theatre
- How To – Master Your Audition Technique
- How To – Write Adaptations for Stage & Radio
- How To – Write for Beginners
- How To – Write for Beginners (Online)
- HOW WILL THEATRE HAVE TO CHANGE TO MEET THE CHALLENGES OF THE POST-PANDEMIC WORLD?
- Hysteria
- I Am Beast
- I Want My Hat Back – South Essex
- I Want My Hat Back – Central Essex
- I Want My Hat Back – North East Essex and Suffolk
- I Want My Hat Back – West Essex
- I’m Still Standing
- Ian McKellen On Stage
- Ian Waite & Vincent Simone
- Ian Waite & Vincent Simone … Act Two!
- Ian Waite and Natalie Lowe Meet and Greet
- Improv 101
- Improv 101 – Taster Session
- In Search of England
- International Festival
- Introduction to Fundraising and Arts Council Support Workshop
- Islands in the Stream
- Islands In The Stream 2018
- Izindava
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- Jack Tales
- Jackson Live In Concert
- Jackson: Live in Concert
- James and the Giant Peach
- James Phelan – Trickster
- Jason Donovan – His Amazing Midlife Crisis Tour
- Jekyll and Hyde
- Joe Brown 60th Anniversary Tour
- Joe Pasquale – A Few Of His Favourite Things
- Joe Swift – A Man About The Garden
- Johnnie Walker – Story of Pirate Radio
- Josh Widdicombe – Bit Much…
- Judith
- Kathleen Turner – Finding My Voice
- Kathy Lette’s Girls’ Night Out
- Ken Ludwig’s – Play Reading Club – Mercury Baskerville Special
- Klub Kids Goes To Chicago
- Lance Ellington – Strictly Come Dancing
- Lates – Cocktail Cabaret
- Lates – Modern One Man Band
- Lates – Murder Mystery
- Lates – Silent Disco
- Lates – The Femmes
- Lates – West End Live
- Lee Mead – My Story…a dream that became a reality
- LEGEND: The Music of Bob Marley
- Let The Music Play (A Tribute to Barry White)
- Life.
- Little Howard and the Magic Pencil of Life and Death
- Little Mix Experience
- Little Mix Experience
- Little Shop Of Horrors
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Liza Pulman sings Streisand
- Lord of The Flies
- Lorraine George 2018 – Cats
- Lost in Blue
- Lucy Worsley – A Very British Murder
- Lucy Worsley – Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife and Mother
- Lucy Worsley: At Home with Jane Austen
- Macbeth
- Madagascar
- Made In India
- Magic of Motown
- Making Musicals with Gus Gowland
- Man to Man
- Manilow – A Celebration Of Barry Manilow
- Marcus Brigstocke: Why The Long Face?
- Margaret Atwood: Dearly
- Mark Steel: Every Little Thing’s Gonna Be Alright
- Mark Thomas – Ouch: Christmas Stories
- Martin Newell Over the Kitchen Table
- Matt Cardle & Michael J Fitch: Music & Magic
- May I Have A Moment? – A Mercury Rising Fundraising Event
- Meet and Greet – Giovanni Pernice
- Meet and Greet – Ian Waite and Oti Mabuse
- Meet and Greet – May I Have A Moment
- Memento Mori
- Mercury Christmas Party 2018
- Mercury Connections 2
- Mercury Connects
- Mercury Connects
- Mercury Creative Entrepreneurs Launch Event
- Mercury Creatives Conference
- Mercury Masterclass: Auditioning with Ryan McBryde
- Mercury Masterclass: Auditioning with Ryan McBryde (online)
- Mercury Masterclass: How To Pitch
- Mercury Monday Masterclass: How to Get That Funding!
- Mercury Monday Masterclass: With Andy Barnes
- Mercury Monday Masterclass: With Casting Director Sydney Aldridge
- Mercury Monday Masterclass: With Daisy Hale
- Mercury Monday Masterclass: With Ellen Kane
- Mercury Monday Masterclass: with Gus Gowland
- Mercury Monday Masterclass: With Holly Adomah Thompson
- Mercury Monday Masterclass: With Kenny Emson
- Mercury Monday Masterclass: With Lawrence Walker
- Mercury Monday Masterclass: With Ryan McBryde
- Mercury Monday Masterclass: With Simon Money
- Mercury Monday Masterclass: With The Paper Birds
- Mercury Monday Masterclass: With The Thelmas
- Mercury Monday Masterclass: With Tracey Childs
- Mercury Reads – Evelyn
- Mercury Reads – Lightning In May
- Mercury Reads – Sirens
- Mercury Rising Supporter Tour
- Mercury Rising Supporters Update
- Mercury Sing-a-long – Christmas Edition!
- Mercury Sing-A-Long: Animation Edition
- Mercury Theatre Gala Dinner – 11 May
- Mercury Tots – Full Term
- Mercury Voices: Break A Leg
- Mercury Voices: The Show Must Go On
- Mercury Young Company Dancers
- Mercury Young Company Musical Theatre
- Mercury’s Big Theatre Quiz with Antony Stuart-Hicks
- Message in a Bottle
- MGM Musicals: More Stars Than in the Heavens
- Michael Morpurgo’s Farm Boy
- Michael Portillo “Life: A Game of Two Halves”
- Miles Jupp – Songs of Freedom
- Mischief and Mystery in Moominvalley
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
- Modern Storytelling for the Stage
- Moll Flanders
- Monday 5-10’s Young Company Online Autumn 2020
- Money For Nothing
- MonologueSlam Masterclass 2016
- MonologueSlam UK 2016
- Morgan & West – More Magic For Kids
- Morgan & West – Time Travelling Magicians
- Mountain
- Movies & Musicals
- MTFestUK – #50Days
- MTFestUK – Cake
- MTFestUK – Far From Heaven
- MTFestUK – HouseFire
- MTFestUK – Millennials
- MTFestUK – The Man in the Ceiling
- MTFestUK – Tony!
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Munchies
- Music at the Tower
- Musical Hits Through Time
- National Lottery Thank You Tour
- Neil Oliver – The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places
- NHS YARNS
- Nick Sharratt’s Big Draw Along
- Noises Off
- Not About Heroes
- Not now, Bernard & other monster stories
- Not Now, Bernard, and Other Monster Stories
- Noughts & Crosses
- Now, Voyager
- Oliver!
- Om Shanti Om
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- One Night of Elvis – Lee Memphis King
- One Night of Elvis Starring Lee Memphis King – 2017
- One Voice
- Only Fools and Boycie
- Opening Weekend Theatre Tours
- OperaUpClose – The Magic Flute
- Our White Skoda Octavia
- Oxford House School Production
- Pack Up Your Troubles
- Paddington
- Pam Ayres – Up In The Attic
- Pam Ayres Mercury Rising Fundraising Event
- Pasadena Roof Orchestra
- Patricia Routledge – Facing The Music
- Peter Pan
- Pieces Of String
- Plastic
- Play in a Week
- Play in a Week – Performance
- Pop Divas Live!
- Pride and Prejudice
- Priority Seating
- Private Lives
- Professor Robert Winston: Modifying Humans- Where Does Genetics Stop?
- PROUD LGBTQ+ Writers Group
- Q&A
- Q&A
- Quadrophenia
- Quartet in the Dark
- Rabbit
- Radio Ga Ga – Celebrating the Champions of Rock
- Rags to Riches
- Re-Take That
- Reads – Jacky
- Reads – Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan
- Reads – Morgue
- Repertory Company Exhibition Launch
- Respect to Aretha
- Rich Hall Live 2016
- Rich Hall’s Hoedown
- Richard Digance
- Richard Herring ‘Oh Frig I’m 50’
- Roald Dahl & The Imagination Seekers
- Rock Choir – Last Night at the Mercury
- Rock For Heroes
- Rock For Heroes
- Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel
- Roman River – hEARd
- Roman River Music – Imogen Cooper
- Roman River Music – The Endellion Quartet
- Roman River Music Presents Adrian Brendel & Noam Greenberg
- Roman River Presents Classical Favourites
- Roman River presents Rhapsody In Blue
- Romeo and Juliet
- Ronnie Scott’s 60th Anniversary Tour
- Ronnie Scott’s All Stars
- Rory Bremner
- Ross Noble LIVE
- Ruby Wax – How To Be Human
- RUSH: A Joyous Jamaican Journey
- Russell Kane – The Fast and the Curious
- Santa’s Grotto – Mercury Theatre
- Sara Pascoe and Friends – A Fundraiser
- Sarah & Duck’s Big Top Birthday
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
- Scheherazade and the 1001 Nights
- Schools Festival 2018
- Scratch Nights
- Scratch Nights
- Seasons With Swing
- SEND Move and Groove
- SEND Online Arts Award
- SEND Summer School
- Seven Drunken Nights – The Story of the Dubliners
- Shadow Kingdoms by Berri George
- Shakespeare, His Wife and The Dog
- Shedding Skin
- Sherlock Holmes
- Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four
- Short Films
- SHOWSTOPPER! The Improvised Musical
- Sian Fan – Works: Downtime/Spirit Corp/Conduit
- Signals: Crafty Communications
- Signals: Webcam Video Games
- Silence
- Silence at POSK
- Simon Amstell Spirit Hole
- Simply Brits
- Sing
- Sing-a-Long-a Grease
- Sing-a-Long-a The Greatest Showman
- Sing-a-Long-a The Greatest Showman
- Singalonga Rocky Horror Show
- Sir Ranulph Fiennes: Living Dangerously
- Sleeping Beauty
- Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs
- So You Want To Work In Theatre
- So You Want To Work In Theatre?
- So You Want To Work In Theatre?
- Sofa
- Solid Gold 70’s Show
- Some Like It Hot
- Soul Legends
- Sound of Silk and Bamboo
- South Pacific
- Spamalot
- Speaking of Happiness
- Spoken Word: Manatomy/ How She Kills/ Zoom With Me
- Spring Awakening
- Stagecoach Colchester 20th Anniversary Showcase
- Stand Up And Be Counted
- Stand Up for Diversity
- Stars of Les Misérables in concert – featuring The Barricade Boys
- Step In Time – Scout Gang Show
- Stewart Lee: Content Provider
- Stick Man Live
- Still
- Still I Rise
- Strictly Murder
- Summer Showtime
- Sunset Boulevard
- Supporters Technical Tea
- Susan Calman
- Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Swing with Laughter!
- Swinging At The Cotton Club
- Swinging At The Cotton Club
- T.REXTASY – The 40th Commemorative Anniversary Tour
- Tamburlaine
- Tamed: with Professor Alice Roberts
- Tap Factory
- Tassels – An Evening Of Burlesque
- Tell Me On A Sunday
- Test Event – Ignore
- Thank You For The Music – The Ultimate Tribute To ABBA
- The Amazing Bubble Man
- The Be All and End All
- The Beauty Queen of Leenane
- The Best of Queen
- The Best of WHAM!
- The BFG
- The Bob Dylan Story
- The Butterfly Lion
- The Cavern Beatles
- The Crucible
- The Dots
- The Drive
- The Events
- The First Hippo On The Moon
- The Furrow by Phil Tong
- The Girl and the Giraffe
- The Glenn Miller Orchestra
- The Good Person of Sichuan
- The Goon Show
- The Green Mile – COMING SOON
- The Gruffalo
- The Gruffalo’s Child
- The Hired Man
- The History Boys
- The Illegal Eagles
- The Illegal Eagles
- The Illegal Eagles
- The Johnny Cash Roadshow
- The Johnny Cash Roadshow 2019
- The King Who Wanted To Live Forever
- The Machine Stops
- The Magic of The Bee Gees
- The Magnificent Music Hall
- The Man Who Would Be King
- The Mousetrap
- The Narnia Story
- The Nobodies
- The Opinion Makers
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Piscator by Kenny Emson
- The Play That Goes Wrong
- The Prince Revelation
- The Producers Supporters Event
- The Quo Experience
- The Rat Pack: Swingin’ At The Sands
- The Scummy Mummies Christmas Show
- The Scummy Mummies Show – Greatest Hits
- The Scummy Mummies Show Returns
- The Simon & Garfunkel Story
- The Smallest Show On Earth
- The Thing That Came From Over There!
- The Tiger Who Came to Tea
- The Tina Turner Experience
- The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
- The Wall
- The War of the Worlds
- The Weir
- The WestEnders
- The Winter’s Tale
- The Winter’s Tale Pre-show Talk
- The Wizard Of Oz
- Theatricool – The Little Mermaid
- There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly
- Things I Know To Be True
- Tiddler and Other Terrific Tales
- Tilted presents Adrian Tchaikovsky in Session with Robin Ince
- Tilted presents Bella Younger in Session with Lorraine Candy
- Tony’s Last Tape
- Tots Stars – Full term
- Tots Twinkles – Full Term
- Transitions Dance Company: The 2019 Triple Bill
- Treasure Island
- Tubular Bells Live!
- Tuesday 11-13’s Young Company Online Autumn 2020
- Tuesday 14-16’s Youth Theatre Spring 2020
- Turn Of The Screw
- Untold Stories – Schools Festival
- Up, Up, Up and Away
- Val McDermid ‘1979’ in session with Fiona Lindsay
- Vivaldi by Candlelight
- Voodoo Room
- Wannabe
- Wavelength
- Wednesday 14-18’s Young Company Online Autumn 2020
- Whitney – Queen Of The Night
- Whitney Queen Of The Night 2017
- William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (Abridged)
- Wind In The Willows
- Wine Tasting
- Wisdom of a Fool
- Wuthering Heights – The Music of Kate Bush
- Yamato Drummers: The Challengers
- You Can Always Hand Them Back
- You Win Again
- Young People’s Workshop – Plastic
- Young Playwrights
- Young Playwrights
