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The Mercury has seen many famous faces perform on its stages since the theatre opened in 1972. Let us take you behind the scenes to explore the backstage secrets of what makes a spectacular Mercury production.

Your guide will take you on a journey through our amazing spaces including the rehearsal room, wardrobe and workshop. We aim for our tours to last one hour.

Why not upgrade your experience…

Make the most of your theatre tour by ending with a delicious afternoon tea or cream tea and bubbles in our café bar? Simply add these at the checkout. If you have any dietary requirements do please give our box office team a ring on 01206 573948 or email food@mercurytheatre.co.uk so we can make sure we can arrange this for you, at least one week prior to your booking.

Give the gift of theatre with a voucher to take a Mercury Theatre tour.

Group and Private Tours

Bring your group to see behind the scenes at the Mercury!

Our tours are very popular and space fill up quickly, so why not arrange a private or group tour.

For a private group tour, we can offer a free place for the organiser and a special price if you add on a cream tea or an afternoon tea for after your tour, and we will try be as flexible as possible to fit with what works for any group.

We can have up to 20 on a tour, or do a double tour for 40 per tour. It is £10 per person for the tour only, £15 with a cream tea or £25 with a full afternoon tea. We allow one free tour place on groups of up to 20, or two free tour places on an over 20 person tour. There is no minimum number we will offer a tour for, but a minimum spend of £100. You will be asked to choose a first and second choice of preferred dates.

As the theatre changes all the time depending on our current shows, we often have people who come back and view the theatre through one of our tours again to see the behind the scenes and learn more about different shows.

School groups can book tours as an Industry Day.

Book through our Groups and private tours booking form, or if you have a specific enquiry please contact us.

Groups and private tours booking form

New for 2024, we will be introducing private Panto Group Tours – this means you can see behind the scenes while our teams are working on our Mercury Panto!

This year, our pantomime is The New Adventures of Peter Pan, running from Sat 23 Nov 2024 – Sun 19 Jan 2025 and our panto group tours are available on Wed 23 Oct, 2pm; Thu 24 Oct, 2pm; Fri 25 Oct, 2pm; Sat 26 Oct, 10.15am only.

Are you an existing Supporter, Ambassador or member of our Producers Club? We have an exclusive first look panto tour for our higher level members, so make sure you look out for your Spring Newsletter for more information!

Book for this through the Panto groups and private tours booking form or if you have a specific enquiry please contact us.

Panto groups and private tours booking form

You can also book group tours in our Mercury Shop.