# Talk:Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch

This review is transcluded from Talk:Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Nominator: MRSC (talk · contribs) 10:31, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Reviewer: JuniperChill (talk · contribs) 21:21, 2 October 2025 (UTC)


### Comments
Hi MRSC, I am going to review this article as part of the October 2025 GAN backlog drive. Comments will follow in the next few days as I started another GAN review yesterday. JuniperChill (talk) 21:21, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

I have reviewed criteria 3 to 6, and found no problems. Its a coincidence that both articles I'm reviewing as part of the backlog drive have "Queen" in them (Queenstown MRT station · review). I didn't notice it. I will get into changing the prose afterwards as I also have a nomination of my own. JuniperChill (talk) 12:34, 4 October 2025 (UTC)
Sorry for the delay. I'm really busy and I was asking help from User talk:Reverosie#Inaccessible sources when reviewing GA in reviewing this. I should be able to start reviewing after ~10 hours as I (and the subject of the article) live in the UK and its just past midnight. JuniperChill (talk) 23:17, 6 October 2025 (UTC)
I have listed the improvements below. I am also putting this nomination on hold seeing as only a few need to be addressed. I may also ask you to provide a quote if I happen to end up needing to check an offline source. JuniperChill (talk) 14:18, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
Thank you for your review and useful comments that I've incorporated. MRSC (talk) 16:20, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
I have spotchecked the article, some of which require a quote since the sources are inaccessible to me either because they're offline or require payment. I have also requested page numbers for the two PDFs, seeing as both are ~110 pages. JuniperChill (talk) 14:20, 8 October 2025 (UTC)
All done, thank you. MRSC (talk) 07:11, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
Thank you. Since everything is now done, I am going to promote this to GA now! JuniperChill (talk) 21:21, 9 October 2025 (UTC)


### Lead section
The short description currently says "Theatre in Hornchurch, Havering, London, England" and I've never seen four places mentioned in prose, let alone the short description as its supposed to be short as possible. Is it possible to shorten it to "Theatre in East London"?  Done
East London should be capitalised and linked.  Done
"The Queen's Theatre has been a Grade II listed building since 2022". > "The theatre has been a Grade II listed building since 2022."  Done


### History
#### Station Lane site
Hornchurch Urban District Council was replaced by Havering London Borough Council on 1 April 1965 - I don't think its necessary to mention the exact date here. Just the year will do.  Done


#### Move to Billet Lane
"The study showed that if the theatre was located in Romford it would likely have 25% greater attendance than in Hornchurch." - add comma after "Romford" and add "a" after "have"  Done
It cost £718,921, paid by Havering Council. - replace "cost" with "costs"  Not done "Costs" would be present tense.
Ah ok, I didn't know that costs is present tense and cost is past tense.
It was officially opened by Peter Hall on 2 April 1975 - I think "was" can be removed  Partly done I reworded another way as "It opened by" doesn't feel right.


#### Funding crisis
 All good. I don't see anything that needs changing in this section


#### Improved fortunes
In 2014 Arts Council England funding was secured until 2018. - add comma after "2014"  Done
In 2019, £1 million was awarded by Arts Council England - who received £1 million?  Done


#### New creative direction
 All good. I don't see anything that needs changing in this section


### Productions
 All good as all entries in this section is sourced.


### Queen's Green
Seeing as this is only a single sentence, does this need to be in its own section (or even in the article)? This is also unsourced.  Done I removed it.


### Spotcheck
According to this revision

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6 - a quote would be great (offline source)  Done
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25 - page number(s) would be great, seeing as the PDF has 116 pages. Do the same with source 26  Done For the second source, since they got no grant they aren't listed so I've given the page numbers of the equivalent section they appeared in the previous year.
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41 - a quote would be great (paywalled source)  Done
48 - a quote would be great (offline source)  Done
 57
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### Other criteria
3 -  Broad in its coverage
4 -  Neutral
5 -  Stable - no edit wars or content disputes recently
6 -  Media - all two images are relevant and suitable for use in Wikipedia/Commons (i.e. freely licensed)

... that a theatre in East London (pictured) survived without funding from 1985 to 2000?
ALT0a:... that a theatre in East London (pictured) survived without arts council funding between 1985 and 2000?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Magician's Daughter
Comment: Reviewed by me; nominated for DYK just hours within the 7 day/168 hour window. I requested MRSC, the GA nom, to provide a quote as the source is paywalled.

JuniperChill (talk) 16:39, 16 October 2025 (UTC).

Here's a quote from the source "Carlton took up the artistic director post in 1997, during a time of financial difficulty for the venue. As well as being credited with saving it from closure, he was behind the theatre’s readmission into Arts Council England’s national portfolio." MRSC (talk) 17:10, 16 October 2025 (UTC)
Thank you. JuniperChill (talk) 18:18, 16 October 2025 (UTC)
The DYK text should probably say "survived without arts council funding" as the local authority (who own the theatre) were still providing funding. MRSC (talk) 11:06, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
Ah ok. I have edited the hook. I didn't think the theatre still had some funding other than from consumers, just not arts council. I also think that 'between 1985 and 2000' sounds better than 'from 1985 to 2000'. JuniperChill (talk) 11:36, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
 Full review needed. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:07, 19 November 2025 (UTC)