If you are looking for something to brighten up the darker autumn evenings, we have just the thing for you.
Around Ealing has teamed up with Questors Theatre to offer readers the chance to win a pair of tickets for its comedy festival next month.
After a triumphant debut earlier this year, the Questors Comedy Festival is bringing another star-studded line-up of entertainment to the borough, including Dominic Holland, father of Marvel’s Spider-Man Tom Holland, from 2-4 November.
TV favourites Ed Byrne and Marcus Brigstocke also feature on the bill, alongside award-winning stand-ups Shazia Mirza and Sally-Anne Hayward.
And, Hal Cruttenden, who grew up in the borough, returns to the theatre where he began his career.
He said: “I grew up a short walk from The Questors Theatre. It was where I first saw a play and where I first acted (at the age of 3). Only the lucky few encounter somewhere as special as Questors; an amateur theatre producing work of a professional standard. If you want to know how British theatre unearths the talent that makes it the envy of the world, visit the Questors.”
Looking ahead
The festival follows a landmark year for the theatre. The first Questors Comedy Festival in April was part of the theatre’s fundraising campaign to replace the roof covering its studio theatre and rehearsal rooms. The first phase of roof work has started and is due to be completed this autumn, with further improvements planned for next summer.
The Questors has also recently been named a finalist in the Great Amateur Theatre category at the Great British Theatre Awards, with the winners due to be announced on 2 November, the festival’s opening night.
Tickets for Questors Comedy Festival start from just £17 and are available to buy online.
Win tickets
To be in with a chance of winning a pair of tickets, to one of the festival’s 3 performances, you must correctly answer the below question and email your answer to aroundealing@ealing.gov.uk before the deadline of 23:59pm on Monday 26 October 2026.
Please include your name and contact details and use the subject line ‘Questors Comedy Festival competition’, or your entry might not be counted.
Question: Which comedian performing at the festival in November grew up in Ealing and acted at The Questors Theatre at a young age?
The winners will be selected, at random, from those entries correctly answering the question, on Tuesday 27 October. Only the winners will be notified. Please see full terms and conditions below.
Find out more about cultural events across the borough, as well as arts and culture news stories, on Ealing Council’s culture website.
Terms and conditions
After the deadline has passed (at 23:59pm Monday 26 October), the winner will be digitally selected at random, before being contacted by email. Only the winner will be notified.
Your contact details will be used for the purpose of administering the competition and contacting the winners to notify them of the prize. And, if you are a winner, we may also need to pass your contact details on to the organisation/company/individual that is due to provide you with the prize in order for you to claim it. The entry deadline and the random selection of the winner is final and binding in all respects on all entrants. No correspondence will be entered into.
Entries that do not comply in full with these entry terms and conditions may be disqualified. If a winning entry is disqualified for any reason, the council reserves the right to award the prize to another entrant.
There is no cash alternative to the prize. The council does not accept any liability on behalf of any third party supplying the prize. Some terms and conditions of the third-party supplier may also apply to the prize. Entrants will be deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions by entering this competition.
