g n i r p s 5 1 0 2 As I write this in December, the Theatre is recovering from two fantastic weeks of the joyously funny CUADC/Footlights Pantomime 2014: The Emperor’s New Clothes which was seen by over 3000 people. We hope to have all the socks and fake snow cleared up by the start of the Spring season! Peter Shaffer’s controversial play Equus (page 8) is likely to be one of the most powerful dramas of the Spring season, along with The Strip (page 18), a ludicrously epic play by Phyllis Nagy. At the Playroom, Conor McPherson’s The Weir (page 13) will transport the audience to a remote Irish pub for toe-curling ghost stories and belly-warming laughs.
If musicals are your thing, the Musical Theatre Society will be producing a musical written and rehearsed in 24hrs (page 26) and their annual Gala Night (page 28), along with another big musical, The Witches of Eastwick (page 10), following the success of Sweet Charity in November. The student season ends with CUADC’s production of Jonathan Larson’s rock musical Rent (page 20) which has become a pop cultural phenomenon since it was written in the early 90s. Footlights are back with another Spring Revue: A Whole Lot of Bother (page 16). Make sure you book soon for that one to avoid disappointment! The Playroom will host a number of comic plays including Cabin Pressure (page 19), adapted for the first time from the award-winning BBC radio play, and the surreal Dreaming with Dali (page 15), a bizarre journey into the mind of Dali as he tries to discover the greatest surrealist object there has likely ever been: the aphrodisiac telephone. The talent and dedication of the student and amateur groups involved in this season is astounding. Everything we produce is put on by volunteers, who are dedicated to having fun and learning about theatre by striving to create professional standard productions, making our shows ambitious, fresh and exciting. I hope there is something in this brochure for you, whatever your theatrical taste. Flo Carr | Theatre Manager
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Happy New Year and welcome to the Spring 2015 Season at the ADC Theatre and Corpus Playroom
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Ben Pope Telly Visions: A Sketch Show Democracy
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Smoker Osama The Hero
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Lean
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Ajax440
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Hatch Les Justes
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Who Am I? Picasso Stole The Mona Lisa
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Austrey and James 29 13 Next Round
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We’ll Meet Again
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Wu-Tang Dan Corpus Freshers’ Show
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Summer Season 2015 A Midsummer Night’s Dream ADC Mainshow 14 – 18 April
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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof ADC Mainshow 21 – 25 April
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The ADC Theatre provides an opportunity for students and amateurs to experience and learn about theatre in a professional environment. The impact of the ADC on British theatre is vast. Our alumni include Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi, Simon Russell Beale, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Rachel Weisz and many, many more. Four of the five directors of the National Theatre started their careers with us: Peter Hall, Richard Eyre, Trevor Nunn and Nicholas Hytner.
Beat the crowds and book for opening night of ADC Mainshows. ADC Opening Nights are £2 cheaper than the rest of the run and let you see the show before anyone else.
The ADC Theatre currently receives no external funding and we are committed to keeping our ticket prices low and our bar affordable, so that both our student and adult audiences can experience and enjoy as much theatre as possible.
get involved We are the centre of Cambridge’s thriving drama scene: productions here are entirely put together by students, amateurs and volunteers. Training, learning and support are at the heart of everything we do and we are set up to provide help and guidance to inexperienced users.
Many of our performers today could be the famous names of tomorrow. With your support we can ensure that they get the best theatrical training we can offer, with industry standard theatrical equipment, financial support for ambitious and innovative productions and an ongoing investment in our backstage facilities.
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brochure contents ADC Mainshows . . . . . . . . . 3 – 24 Playroom Mainshows . . . . . . 3 – 21 Playroom Lateshows . . . . . . . 3 – 19 ADC Lateshows . . . . . . . . . 25 –28 Playroom One-Night Stands . . . . . 29 ADC Barshows . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Larkum Studio . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Get Involved . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 ADC Ticketing . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Booking Information . . . . . . .33 – 34
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13 – 17 January | Playroom Bawds
THE AUTHENTIC LIFE OF BILLY THE KID by Lee Blessing
In a run-down New Mexico ranch house in 1908, the ageing Pat Garrett lives alone with his memories. Ash Upson, ghostwriter of Garrett’s book about the 1881 shooting of Billy the Kid at Fort Sumner, finds Pat in bad financial straits, having squandered his chances for fame, wealth and glory in his later years. Ash has brought with him a man who claims he is the real Kid. Is this man Billy? If he is, then who is Pat Garrett? Drama and legend collide as the play deconstructs the whole Wild West mythmaking process.
playroom mainshow tue 13 – Sat 17 january at 7.45pm (please note start time)
Tickets £8/£6
Book now for the Spring 2015 Musical
RENT 11 – 21 March See page 20 for full details.
If you like musicals, why not also book for The Witches of Eastwick 3 – 7 February, see page 10.
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13 – 17 January | ADC Theatre Cambridge University European Theatre Group
MACBETH by William Shakespeare
‘Stars, hide your fires; let light not see my black and deep desires.’ The Cambridge University European Theatre Group returns with a dark production of one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies that sets the psychological drama of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth against the explicitly supernatural world they inhabit; and emphasises the central role of prophecy over historical reinterpretation.
adc MAINSHOW Tue 13 – Sat 17 january at 7.45pm matinee sat 17 jan at 2.30pm Tickets £14/£11 (Tue £12/£9)
Guided and twisted by, and eventually complicit in, the prophecy of three mysterious witches, Macbeth rises to become king of Scotland even as he descends into irredeemable madness.
Post-show discussion Thu 15 Jan
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20 – 24 January | Playroom
20 – 24 January | Playroom
LEAN
PICASSO STOLE THE MONA LISA
by Isley Lynn
Tessa’s home. Unannounced. Michael has stopped eating again. She makes a deal with him: she’ll stay, but will only eat what he eats, when he eats. She’ll live with him and cook for him every day until he gives in.
by Jamie Fenton
Michael, however, isn’t ready to submit. While attempting to live with each other again and deal with their past, Tessa begins to discover firsthand the effects of Michael’s eating disorder.
It’s 19--, and the fashion for using dashes to indicate a vague date is taking Paris by storm. Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire are thrown into a pickle of a fix when they are arrested for the recent theft of the Mona Lisa (this is almost a history fact).
A brave, boldly original and unashamedly frank insight into one couple’s battle with anorexia and each other. ‘I have a mantra. Quod me nutrit me destruit.’ ‘What nourishes me destroys me.’ PLAYROOM MAINSHOW TUE 20 – Sat 24 january at 7pm tickets £6/£5
A new farce of dark comedy and pamplemousses set in the sexy, cloak and dagger world of Art History.
Can they prove their innocence? Can they persuade their next door neighbour that they are not having an affair with his wife? And, most importantly, can they find the right word to describe the Mona Lisa’s smile? Find out in this one-door tragi-farce, the latest product from the invent-a-genre warehouse. PLAYROOM LATESHOW TUE 20 – Sat 24 january at 9.30pm tickets £6/£5
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Cambridge University Dance Society
OSAMA THE HERO
EVOLUTION
WED 21 – SAT 24 JAN AT 11PM £6/£5 see page 25
‘It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.’ – Charles Darwin Evolution. To develop, progress, metamorphose. Join Cambridge University Dance Society for a kaleidoscopic evening of creative dance collaboration, featuring electric fusions of contemporary, ballet, Fosse, Charleston, hip-hop, Rock’n’Roll, ballroom, belly-dancing, folk-dancing, Indian and Bollywood. Don’t miss the ADC’s biggest dance show of the year, as Cambridge University Dance Society return for their annual variety dance show, which offers a performance platform for
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all dancers across every corner of Cambridge and showcases the spell-binding talent of the Cambridge dance scene. ADC MAINSHOW Tue 20 – Sat 24 january at 7.45PM matinee sat 24 Jan at 2.30pm tickets £12/£9 (TUE £10/£7)
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27 – 31 January | Playroom
27 – 31 January | Playroom
AJAX440
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‘And the tragedy is, that one day... He might wake up and see where he actually is.’
Providenciales, a Caribbean paradise. A local woman and two tourists meet on a hot patch of sand.
by Henry St Leger-Davey
Ajax is one of the greatest warriors in Grecian legend, cursed by the gods with a frenzied madness. While he believes he is slaughtering his enemies and achieving his dreams, he wakes to find only slain cattle and his sanity littered about him. Ajax440 is an innovative retelling of Sophocles’ powerful Greek tragedy for the digital age. The myth is transposed onto modern day, where virtual violence runs rampant, and a mysterious new video-game has gaming-addict Ian in its thrall... A warrior punished for his arrogance or driven mad by his need for escape? PLAYROOM MAINSHOW Tue 27 – Sat 31 january at 7PM Tickets £6/£5
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by debbie tucker green
‘Why would I do what I do back ‘here’ when I aint back ‘here’ – I’m ‘there’ – don’t make no sense – I’m not at home am I. Am I? I’m ‘there’ on holiday’ One subject. Two worlds. Three points of view. A darkly humorous and quietly brutal meditation on female sex tourism, investigating the indignities inherent in international trade through the lens of first-world women visiting a thirdworld resort, purses stuffed with local currency and British Kitemark condoms, searching for something special. PLAYROOM LATESHOW Tue 27 – Sat 31 january at 9.30PM Tickets £6/£5
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DIAL M FOR IMPROV
EQUUS
WED 28 – FRI 30 JAN AT 11PM | £7/£6
by Peter Shaffer
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‘If you knew God, Doctor, you would know about the Devil. I only know he was my little Alan, and then the Devil came.’ Alan Strang is a nice boy. His family love him. He has nice eyes. Then one night he blinds six horses with a metal spike. For Martin Dysart, the psychiatrist charged with treating him, what starts as a routine case quickly descends into a dark history of parental oppression and religious fanaticism. From violent Biblical imagery to twisted sexuality and paganistic ritual, Dysart finds himself immersed in events which threaten to shatter his own faith in reason and sanity. Branded as one of the most controversial plays of the twentieth century, Equus uses an act of inexplicable violence to explore the dark and primal side of humanity, culminating in an ending which has gone down as one of the greatest, and most disturbing, in modern theatre. ADC MAINSHOW Tue 27 – Sat 31 january at 7.45pm TICKETS £12/£9 (TUE £10/£7)
Post-show discussion Thu 29 Jan
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3 – 7 February | Playroom
3 – 7 February | Playroom
RACING DEMON
AWKWARD CONVERSATIONS WITH ANIMALS I’VE F*CKED
by David Hare
Racing Demon follows a group of vicars in innercity London struggling to come to terms with the modern world. People no longer trust their way of life, and scandal is never too far away from them. Lionel is a man who no longer relies on his faith the way a vicar is expected to. Harry is hounded by the press looking for a juicy story. Tony is faced with holding onto his girlfriend whilst upholding his holier-than-thou image. Despite this, these vicars do their best to fight in the face of persecution, asking the question: ‘How do you fight without hate?’ David Hare’s Racing Demon opened in 1990 to universal acclaim, and won four awards as Play of the Year. It has enjoyed numerous revivals, and continues to be respected as an exploration of religion, conflict and politics. PLAYROOM MAINSHOW Tue 3 – Sat 7 february at 7pm tickets £6/£5s £6/£5
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by Rob Hayes
‘Like it’s fine to say ‘having sex with a dog is quite weird’ now. But our children’s generation might be all like ‘that’s discrimination!’’ One-night stands are awkward. One-night stands with animals are more awkward. And when you’re as desperate to please as Bobby, things get awkward as f*ck. He’s just a guy with too much love to give and a burning desire to give it to consensual adult mammals. A one-man tragi-comedy from award-winning playwright Rob Hayes. ‘Finely crafted comic dialogue and strikingly surreal moments... Hayes is no ordinary writer’ (Time Out) PLAYROOM lateSHOW Tue 3 – Sat 7 february at 9.30pm tickets £6/£5
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3 – 7 February | ADC Theatre
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Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society
THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK
FOOTLIGHTS PRESENTS: S.C.O.F.F!: THE COMEBACK TOUR WED 4 – SAT 7 FEB AT 11PM £7/£6
by John Dempsey
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Trouble is brewing in the picture book New England town of Eastwick. When three women ostracised by society wish for their ideal man, they have no idea what lies in store.
But all is not as it seems and things are spiralling out of control. Be careful what you wish for: speak of the devil and he might appear.
As the irresistible Darryl van Horne manipulates the three women, all hell breaks loose in Eastwick, literally. Under the watchful eye of the moon, Alex, Jane and Sookie are brought to life in ways they could never have imagined.
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10 – 14 February | Playroom
10 & 11 February | Playroom
L’escargot by Charlie Robb and Douglas Tawn
This two man comedy show promises laughs, loves and a long hard look at cultural stereotypes that will have you in hysterics throughout!
LES JUSTES
tue 10 & wed 11 february at 9.30PM tickets £6/£5
by Albert Camus
In late Tsarist Russia, a group of revolutionaries gather to overthrow the existing order through the assassination of the tyrannical Duke Sergei Alexandrovich.
12 – 14 February | Playroom
In a true story based on events in 1905, Camus’ play follows the path of Ivan Kaliayev as he struggles with the morality of assassination. As the tension builds up to the event itself, he must come to terms with self-sacrifice and leaving his lover Dora behind. This 1949 play challenges the ethical foundation of assassination and questions the distinction between revolutionaries and terrorists. It opens up the hearts and minds of the assassins and asks the unanswerable question - is it just? PLAYROOM MAINSHOW Tue 10 – Sat 14 February at 7PM Tickets £6/£5
hear hear by Rosanna Suppa and Kate Reid
Shazam! Shhhh. Vroooom. BANG. Ooft. Moooo. Want to know how those sounds make a sketch show? Come and find out! thu 12 – sat 14 february at 9.30PM tickets £6/£5
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THE UNPROFESSIONALS WED 11 – SAT 14 FEB AT 11PM | £6/£5 see page 27
PRAVDA
Post-show discussion Thu 12 Feb
by Howard Brenton and David Hare
Pravda is a dynamic energetic comedy with a host of larger than life characters from 1980s newsrooms, gentlemen’s clubs and dodgy political deals.
1985. Thatcher’s Britain. A subtle force is taking over the British press: Lambert Le Roux, a powerful individual with little ethical interest. Those who oppose him conveniently and mysteriously fall from grace, but standing by his side offers no protection from his tireless quest for power either.
‘I just cling to this idea of the language. That a sentence means something. Hang on to the sentence. ‘On the one hand, on the other...’’
Can the morality of British journalism survive this onslaught?
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17 – 21 February | Playroom
17 – 21 February | Playroom
THE WEIR
THE NEXT ROUND
by Conor McPherson
‘There’s no dark like a winter night in the country. And there was a wind like this one, howling and whistling in off the sea. It was this type of night now. Am I setting the scene for you?’ A pub in the remote hills of Ireland; the men have gathered for their daily pint. A new arrival, Valerie, gets them all excited. They settle down with drinks in hand and tell old tales of things that go bump in the night. But Valerie has her own story and, when she shares it, the group will never be the same again. Hopeful and heart-breaking; expect toe-curling ghost stories and belly-warming laughs in this production of McPherson’s modern masterpiece.
by Lily Lindon, Yasmin Freeman and John King
‘Pub quizzes may attract customers to a pub who are not found there on other days.’ – Wikipedia In an odd, dingy pub, adorned with the pictures of one-hit wonders past, a ragtag bunch of unlikely characters are roped together to form the final team in the weekly Pub Quiz. Betrayal, rivalry, nibbles, nuns; all is laid bare on the sticky table as they stumble their way through the rounds. A new comic play where trivia, sketches and music combine for a night at nobody’s local. PLAYROOM LATESHOW Tue 17 – Sat 21 february at 9.30PM tickets £6/£5
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SANTA IS A SCUMBAG
TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE
WED 18 – SAT 21 FEB AT 11PM £6/£5 see page 27
by John Ford
‘To what a height of liberty in damnation hath the devil trained our age!’ 1928. In Parma, Florio’s speakeasy is doing a roaring trade, abetted by the intoxicating medicines of ‘doctor’ Richardetto. The spotlight is on Annabella. As she sings from the stage, her various suitors spar and dance attendance to win her heart, and her father’s approval. But her desires lie a little too close to home. In a world of liquor, jazz and sexual excess, how will the world look upon two lovers breaking down the last taboo? ADC MAINSHOW Tue 17 – Sat 21 FEBRUARY at 7.45pm tickets £12/£9 (Tue £10/£7)
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24 – 28 February | Playroom
24 – 28 February | Playroom
ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE
DREAMING WITH DALI
by Martin Crimp
‘Let’s just say… that the trees have names? Okay? That’s right – the trees. I know – you think I’m crazy.’ Attempts to define her? Attempts to save her? Or attempts to ruin her life? A harrowing and realistic portrayal of one private life, presented through a kaleidoscopic disarray of personal vignettes, unravelling the tale of a woman, who is enveloped by the demands of the twentieth century. We are bombarded by memories of childhood, violence, unprotected sex, terrorism, pornography and commercialism. But we are all asking ourselves the same question: who is Anne? Or Anya? Or Anna? One woman, an ‘other’, a nobody in modern society. Martin Crimp’s ground-breaking seventeen ‘scenarios for the theatre’ challenges the way we use the stage to depict real life.
by Alexander Ilija Coles
To dream with Dali is to enter the word of the most surreal mind there will likely ever be. You will laugh, you will cringe and you will almost certainly leave feeling very, very confused. If you enjoy moustaches, eggs and sexually provocative lobsters then this, my friends, is the show for you. Dreaming with Dali is a surreal comic play which tells the story of Salvador Dali’s quixotic journey into his own subconscious mind to discover the greatest surrealist object there has likely ever been: the aphrodisiac telephone. playroom lateshow TUE 24 – Sat 28 february at 9.30pm Tickets £6/£5
PLAYROOM MAINSHOW TUE 24 – Sat 28 february at 7pm Tickets £6/£5
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Cambridge Footlights
FOOTLIGHTS SPRING REVUE 2015:
A WHOLE LOT OF BOTHER
LET’S GET NOUGHTY WED 25 – FRI 27 FEB AT 11PM £7/£6 see page 27
The Footlights Spring Revue 2015 will see an old-school dissent into the mad, mad world of variety shows and vaudeville loons for five nights only (and a couple of mid–afternoon matinees). Come one, come all! If you like brass bands in the springtime, or ragbag finales, come along for all of that and much, much more. The Footlights Spring Revue 2015: A Whole Lot of Bother is set to be as raucous and silly as ever, as the Footlights committee bring you a show that is bursting at the hatches.
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3 – 7 March | Playroom
3 – 7 March | Playroom
WE’LL MEET AGAIN
FrEAK by Anna Jordan
by Nathan MIller
Late at night, 1941, London – heavy rain and the distant crashes of heavy bombing. Max Slater, engineer for the British Government is preparing a demonstration for a field agent. Corks with a compartment for secret messages, lighters with secret cavities, hollow coins and keys with concealed blades are tonight’s entertainment. She will arrive any minute. Cara Satin. But surely it can’t be his Cara Satin? The girl who always seems to turn up at the most unexpected moments and turn his life upside down all over again. In 1991, two researchers are writing a book about a legendary female spy who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. They visit the home of an elderly couple where the husband, Max, claims to have known her. Will his fondly held memories hold the answer to Cara’s whereabouts?
Leah is 15 with teenage dreams. Blonde-haired and helium-voiced, she practices her cum face and Veets. A lot. Georgie is 30 with dirty secrets. She drinks in her bedroom and hides from the sun. Fed up of temping, she sacks it in, draws the curtains and sees how many times she can come to Homes Under The Hammer. Before long, she lands herself a job in a lap dancing club. But what starts as idle inquisitiveness soon unravels into something altogether more disturbing. Freak is a series of monologues by two women who are sitting side by side on the same double bed. playroom lateshow TUE 3 – Sat 7 MARCH at 9.30pm Tickets £6/£5
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THE STRIP
CIRQUE DE L’EXTRAORDINAIRE WED 4 – SAT 7 MAR AT 11PM
by Phyllis Nagy
Set somewhere between hope, glory and the endless wasteland, hanging on to the dregs of a now pixelated American Dream, is Phyllis Nagy’s ludicrously epic The Strip.
£6/£5 see page 28
Having premiered at The Royal Court in 1995, the play is even more relevant now than ever, with the exponential growth of our addiction to celebrity and an everlasting aspiration for destiny. With its ludicrously interwoven plotlines, 10 characters chase their wants and hopes across the transatlantic wilderness for forgotten clichés of love and success – will they make it before the impending solar eclipse? Nagy’s writing takes us on a terrific journey with complete absurdity, bitingly bitter humour and bleak resonance in a production that delights and rockets towards The Strip’s kaleidoscopic end. ADC MAINSHOW Tue 3 – Sat 7 MARCH AT 7.45pm tickets £12/£9 (TUe £10/£7)
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10 – 14 March | Playroom
10 – 14 March | Playroom
CABIN PRESSURE
CORPUS FRESHERS’ SHOW
‘The best thing to happen to the sky since rainbows.’
The Corpus Christi College Freshers’ Show is an annual showcase of the college’s freshest new talent, in their college theatre, the Corpus Playroom.
by John Finnemore
Cabin Pressure is an adaptation of the awardingwinning BBC radio play of the same name. It follows the antics of the hapless airline crew of MJN charter airline as they fly across the globe. The crew push the boundaries of airline safety and customer service with their mad shenanigans and the inconvenience of having actual passengers. Come fly with us, and allow yourself to be transported to a world of travelling lemons and deathly cheesecake.
Written, directed, produced, acted and crewed by first year Corpus students with the support of the Fletcher Players, it is always an energetic and exciting production. Check the website for more details of the show, which will be announced in January. playroom lateshow tue 10 – Sat 14 March at 9.30pm Tickets £6/£5
PLAYROOM MAINSHOW TUE 10 – Sat 14 MARCH at 7pm Tickets £6/£5
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ADC LATESHOW THIS WEEK
HARRY PORTER PRIZE WINNER
Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club
RENT
THU 12 – SAT 14 MAR AT 11PM
by Jonathan Larson
£7/£6
‘How do you document real life when real life’s getting more like fiction each day?’
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Based loosely on Puccini’s La Boheme, Rent follows a year in the life of a group of friends struggling to make it in the big city under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. Rent is about falling in love, finding your voice and living for today. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this musical has become a pop cultural phenomenon with songs that rock and a story that resonates with audiences of all ages. Rent features hit songs ‘Seasons of Love’, ‘La Vie Boheme’ and ‘Without You’. ADC MAINSHOW WED 11 – SAT 21 MARCH at 7.45pm matinees sat 14 & 21 march at 2.30pm (no performance Sunday 15 March)
tickets £14/£11 (WED 11 mar £12/£9)
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24 – 26 March | ADC Theatre
25 – 28 March | Playroom
Perse Players
MISCHIEF
OUR HOUSE
book by Tim Firth, music and lyrics by Madness Winner of the 2003 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, Our House is a tale of love and loss, heartbreak and comedy, right and wrong, set in London’s Camden Town. It’s the night of Joe Casey’s sixteenth birthday and he’s treating his girlfriend Sarah to a panoramic view of London from a brand new luxury apartment. The only problem is they have to break in. When the police arrive, Joe has to decide; run away or face the music, a choice that will set the course of his life, and his love, forever. ADC MAINSHOW (please note that this production is at the ADC Theatre)
TUE 24 – Thu 26 MARCH at 7.45pm Tickets £14/£11 (TUE £12/£9)
by Peter Mieville
Inspired by real events, Mischief is a play about a celebrated actor, now in a retirement home, struggling to come to terms with his failing powers and the reasons for his varied success. Out of a mischievous memory, via his love of Dickens and Shakespeare, he begins to understand the curious alchemy of identity, timing and destiny, and the secret ingredients of his greatest role, one of the best known characters in fiction. The play is serious and comic; a passionate, intimate and uplifting tribute to the craft in entertainment. Peter is an author and former consultant. He devised and co-presented the bicentenary Dickens Drama Workshop for the BBC, and adjudicated the Dickens Writing Competition for the Norwich Writers’ Circle. He has recently completed a multimedia adaptation of A Christmas Carol. Other work includes screenplays, fiction and satires on management and politics. He is a graduate of Exeter College, Oxford. playroom mainshow wed 25 – Sat 28 march at 7.45pm (please note start time)
Tickets £7/£6
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31 March – 4 April | ADC Theatre Pied Pipers
LEND ME A TENOR
music by Brad Carroll book and lyrics by Peter Sham
A laugh out loud, farcical musical that will leave you in stitches long after you have left the theatre! Fresh from their sell-out musicals last year, the Pied Pipers perform the Tony awardwinning Lend me a Tenor. It’s 1934, and the world’s greatest tenor Tito Merelli has come to Cleveland, Ohio, to save the struggling Grand Opera Company by singing Verdi’s famous Otello. When he is unexpectedly incapacitated, Max, the Opera Director’s meek assistant, is given the huge task of finding a last-minute replacement who has the ability to sing like an operatic tenor. Chaos ensues, including a scheming soprano, a tenor-struck ingénue, a jealous wife and the Cleveland Police department. This side splitting musical is based on the very successful 1986 play of the same name by Ken Ludwig. The Pied Pipers are a local Cambridge Musical Theatre Club whose fantastic shows have been gracing the stage for over 60 years. ADC MAINSHOW tue 31 MARCH – sat 4 APRIL at 7.45pm matinees fri 3 & Sat 4 APRIL at 2.30pm tickets £14/£11 (tue & FRI MAT £12/£9)
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10 – 11 April | ADC Theatre Ballet Central
BALLET CENTRAL
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Ballet Central returns to Cambridge with an exciting programme of ballet, contemporary and jazz dance. The varied repertoire features a mixture of newly commissioned works and muchloved revivals, which showcase the talent of the company’s young and emerging dancers.
Praise for previous productions:
This family-friendly show is ideal for dance enthusiasts as well as those new to ballet. Don’t miss this opportunity to see these highly talented dancers as they launch their professional careers.
adc MAINSHOW fri 10 april at 7.45pm sat 11 april at 2.30pm tickets £12/£10
‘A complete delight’ – Dance Europe ‘A thoroughly enjoyable performance’ – Dancing Times ‘Not to be missed’ – Kingdom FM
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Bawds
The Combined Actors of Cambridge
by William Shakespeare
by Tennessee Williams
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is probably Shakespeare’s most popular comedy. It portrays the adventures of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors and a duke and duchess, and their encounters with some mischievous woodland fairies. Taking place in a mythical, fantasy world and an enchanted forest, the story is woven around the handsome fairy king, a beautiful fairy queen, star-crossed lovers, a weaver who is transformed into a half-donkey, wood sprites and impish elves. At its heart, the play is about falling in love but, as Puck knows, falling in love can make fools of us all. With Shakespeare’s poetry at its most dazzling, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is widely performed throughout the world. Bawds’ brand new production brings a timeless, dreamlike quality to the play, full of colour, sensuality and original music. ADC MAINSHOW tue 14 – sat 18 April at 7.45pm matinee sat 18 apr at 2.30pm Tickets £12/£10 (Tue & MAt £10/£8)
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It’s ‘Big Daddy’ Pollitt’s 65th birthday and he’s about to celebrate with his family at his plantation home in the Mississippi Delta. Big Daddy is a cotton millionaire, the richest cotton planter in the Delta. He believes he’s just been given the all-clear from cancer but in fact he’s riddled with it. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife and their children, and Brick, a former pro football player and alcoholic, with his feisty wife ‘Maggie the Cat’. As the hot summer evening unfolds, the truth leaks out, both about Big Daddy’s illness and about the causes of his son’s drinking. Greed, lies, jealousy and suppressed sexuality threaten to reach boiling point. ADC mainshow tue 21 – Sat 25 APRIL at 7.45pm matinee sat 25 apr at 2.30pm Tickets £12/£9 (Tue £10/£7)
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ADC LATESHOWS & ONE-NIGHT STANDS 11PM
ben pope and lunchtime of champions Jamie Fraser and Alex MacKeith knock about for half an hour, before Ben Pope sweeps them away and fences off the second 30. tue 13 january at 11pm tickets £7/£6
TELLY VISIONS: A SKETCH SHOW by Haydn Jenkins and Aurelien Gueroult
Sit back, relax and enjoy Telly Visions, a sketch show dedicated to the little screen. Put the remote down and stop flicking between channels, this is the one for you. Put your feet up, lounge out in them joggers, grab some snacks (don’t bring them into the theatre). wed 14 & Thu 15 january at 11pm tickets £6/£5
Cambridge Footlights
FOOTLIGHTS SMOKER Footlights bring you the funniest songs, sketches, monologues and standup in an hour of non-stop, back-to-back fun-filled hilarity. The material is always original and always varied. It can be soft and silly; rude and spikey; wordy and nerdy or a little surreal – whatever the style, it’s always ‘uproariously funny’ (Varsity). tue 20 january; 3 & 17 february; 11 march at 11pm | tickets £7/£6
OSAMA THE HERO by Dennis Kelly
DEMOCRACY With democracy doing all the hard work of making a joke of itself, why not capitalise with a sketch comedy show?
It’s been weeks and the estate bombings still haven’t ceased. Meanwhile Gary’s school project on Osama Bin Laden is creating waves among the locals. An alleged pedo, a violent thug and his sister take matters into their own hands, to protect the safety and honour of their estate.
fri 16 & Sat 17 january at 11pm tickets £6/£5
wed 21 – Sat 24 january at 11pm tickets £6/£5
by Scott Limbrick
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Cambridge American Stage Tour
SUNSET ETERNAL Join Footlights regulars Theo Wethered, Jordan Mitchell, Guy Emanuel, Archie Henderson and Milo Edwards for Sunset Eternal: a new hour of stand-up, songs, double-act and doubleentendre. Come. Laugh. Cry. Listen. Breathe. Continue.
the 24hr musical
The finest of Cambridge’s musical theatre talent will join forces to create an original musical in just 24 hours. sat 31 january at 11pm tickets £7/£6
tue 27 january at 11pm tickets £6/£5 Cambridge Footlights Cambridge Impronauts
DIAL M FOR IMPROV Join the Cambridge Impronauts (‘genuinely fantastic’ – The Tab ; ‘a real humdinger’ – The Cambridge Student 9/10) as they spin together a murder mystery before your very eyes. Prepare yourself for a story which has never been told before, and will never be told again. wed 28 – fri 30 january at 11pm tickets £7/£6 FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA:
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ADC LATESHOWS & ONE-NIGHT STANDS 11PM the double A one-night showcase of two-person comedy from various writers and performers around Cambridge, including some Footlights, and some non-Footlights. 6 double acts take to the stage in an attempt to wow and impress the audience. tue 10 february at 11pm tickets £6/£5
the unprofessionals by Henry Wilkinson
Join the Sterlings as they bumble through the shady streets, bustling nightclubs and smoky restaurants of Italy with the mafia hot on their tail. wed 11 – sat 14 february at 11PM tickets £6/£5
santa is a scumbag
by Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, Thierry Lhermitte and Bruno Moynot (translated by Aurélien Guéroult) A pregnant woman pursued by her crowbarwielding fiancé, a husky-voiced transvestite and a clueless Yugoslav turn up at the ‘Distress Buddies’ helpline’s Christmas Eve shift. Chaos ensues in this racy and corrosive farce. wed 18 – sat 21 february at 11PM tickets £6/£5
the soliloquy of discontent by Mark Milligan
Discontent has nothing left to do but soliloquise. One thing’s certain: it would be terrible to be a radiator. tue 24 february at 11PM tickets £6/£5
Cambridge University Show Choir
let’s get noughty!
The CU Show Choir presents a selection of songs from the 00s: a night of harmonious joy with treats such as S Club 7, Lady Gaga and the inevitable High School Musical. wed 25 – fri 27 february at 11PM tickets £7/£6
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Cambridge Footlights
Cirque de l’extraordinaire
Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society
musical theatre gala
Roll up! Roll up! Cirque de l’Extraordinaire is a marvel for all to see; a sketch show set in a circus!
CUMTS presents its annual night of gratuitous musical theatre indulgence. Join us, you know you want to.
Wed 4 – Sat 7 march at 11pm tickets £6/£5
sat 28 february at 11pm tickets £7/£6
Cambridge Footlights
harry porter prize winner
Cambridge Footlights
Footlights and friends Cambridge Footlights are joined for one night only by their Friends, the Leeds Tealights and the Bristol Revunions.
Footlights present the winner of this year’s Harry Porter Prize (set up in 2003 in honour of the late Dr Harry Porter, Footlights’ long-term Senior Archivist) for a one-hour comic play. Join us to herald the realisation of a new comic vision.
tue 3 march at 11PM tickets £7/£6
Thu 12 – Sat 14 march at 11pm tickets £7/£6
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CORPUS PLAYROOM
ONE-NIGHT STANDS WHO AM I? by Orlando Gibbs
Join Orlando as he branches out from parasitically relying on other people with his debut solo effort, Who am I? mon 19 JANUARY at 9.30pm | £6/£5
CORPUS SMOKER The Corpus Smoker is one of Cambridge’s newest and most successful comedy nights. Come along and see comedy performed by Cambridge comedians in one of the city’s most intimate and unusually-shaped venues. mon 26 JANUARY & 23 FEBRUARY at 9.30pm | £7/£6
KENNETH WATTON’S BEDTIME CHAT SHOW Join Kenneth Watton and various respectable guests for an evening of wit, chat and complimentary snook. mon 2 FEBRUARY at 9.30pm | £6/£5
HATCH Hatch is back, showcasing scratch performances of new dramatic and poetic works in progress from the hotbed of Cambridge literary talent. mon 9 FEBRUARY at 7pm | £6/£5 (please note start time)
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AUSTREY AND JAMES by Ed Kendall and Josh Hinton
A tremendous new sketch show which prompted John Cleese to ask ‘how DO you spell Austrey?’ (Really. We met him.) mon 16 february at 9.30pm | £6/£5
Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society
broads on the way!
by Ella Duffy and Kennedy Bloomer Uproar! Confusion! A night of musical parody, satire, sketches and madness. mon 2 march at 9.30pm | £7/£6
WU-TANG DAN by Dan Leigh
An hour of stand-up comedy from hopefully funny person and failed hip-hop star Daniel Leigh. mon 9 march at 9.30pm | £6/£5
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ADC BAR
SPEAKEASY
BARSHOWS
Speakeasy returns to the ADC Theatre Bar! Cambridge’s warmest and most welcoming spoken word poetry night is back.
As well as being a fantastic place for a drink, the ADC Bar can also be used as a venue for productions such as our Musical Theatre Bar Nights, seating up to 50 people. For information on hiring the bar on Sunday or Monday nights, email production@adctheatre.com.
Each Speakeasy features two talented feature poets, some from Cambridge and some from further afield, as well as an open poetry slam where anyone can sign up at the start of the night to perform 3 minutes of their own poetry, and compete for the title of Speakeasy slam winner. If you usually love poetry, if you usually hate poetry, if you’ve never heard of spoken word or performance poetry before but fancy giving it a go, come along! Have a drink, have a listen, if you want to perform get up and speak - it’s easy. Sun 25 january; 8 & 22 february; 8 march at 8pm | £6/£5
F wordS A fistful of new monologues. Frank, fierce and funny writing from young women about bodies, sex, violence, love, politics and other home concerns. sun 15 february at 8pm | £6/£5
Cambridge University Muscial Theatre Society
musical theatre bar nights
Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society is pleased to once more present one of its ever-popular cabaret evenings. Featuring the very best of Cambridge performers singing a wide range of Musical Theatre classics, a live band, and plenty of breaks to top-up at the bar, this will be a hugely enjoyable evening! mon 26 JANUARY; 9 & 23 FEBRUARY at 8pm | £7/£6
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THE POLIS The Polis is a series of short political performances for the ADC bar. In an evening an audience member will see a broad range of pieces covering political satire to hard hitting monologues to poetry or song. MON 2 march at 8pm | £6/£5
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10 – 14 Feb | Larkum Studio um rk io La tud S
papercuts Larkum studio Papercuts is our rehearsed reading programme.
AMYGDALA WONDERLAND
We believe that the best way to help writers and their work develop is to get the script on its feet and spoken. Papercuts is produced in the Larkum Studio at the ADC Theatre, and is intended to let the writer see their work given a voice.
Welcome to a world away from the world, as Strange transforms an abandoned flat and grabs everything at his disposal to tell you the story of his life.
Come along, grab a drink from the bar, and watch new theatre in its purest form.
TURN OF THE SCREW by Henry James, adapted by Jocelyn Major
A haunting ghost story where the new governess at Bly begins to question her own sanity.
by Sam Grabiner
Hours of tape recordings, cupboards of costumes and boxes of props weave together a life of teaching English as a foreign language, trainspotting, and a meticulous obsession with the great grey cityscape outside. larkum studio show Tue 10 – Sat 14 February at 8PM Tickets £6/£5
WED 28 january at 8pm | £3
THE QUICK AND THE DAMNED by Guy Clark and Tom Stuchfield
1680. The New Mexico desert. Isolated in enemy territory, four soldiers meet a priest. Is God really all-forgiving? Fri 6 february at 6pm | £3
by Joel Lipson
A magician, two assistants, an audience, and a frame that can – so they say – raise the dead (but not, alas, kindly).
(please note start time)
thu 26 february at 8pm | £3
EXECUTION
watching you
Two men. One room. One hour. One must die. At least.
Absurdist and dark, Watching You aims to explore the paranoia and addiction behind TV.
FRI 20 february at 8pm | £3
FRI 27 february at 8pm | £3
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an emptied frame of mind
by Nathan Smith
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t e g d e v l o v in g n i t e k c i t get involved
We are the centre of Cambridge’s thriving drama scene: productions here are entirely put together by students, amateurs, and volunteers. From actors and technical crew to directors and producers, everyone is here to enjoy and produce high-quality theatre. Training, learning and support are at the heart of everything we do here, and we are set up around providing help and guidance to inexperienced users.
There are hundreds of opportunities to act in the ADC Theatre every year, and our productions always require dedicated production and technical teams. Whether you’re interested in acting, directing, designing, managing, building, lighting, or crewing a show, new faces are always welcome, regardless of experience.
For more information on the various production roles, and how to get involved with shows at the ADC Theatre, visit adctheatre.com/getinvolved. We also require volunteer stewards to help us run the Front of House in the evenings. Our stewards greet audiences, sell programmes and ice-creams, and oversee admission to the auditorium. For more information, email getinvolved@adctheatre.com.
adc ticketing ADC Ticketing provides the best value and highest quality customer service for events happening in and around Cambridge.
Our Box Office is easily accessible, located conveniently in Cambridge City Centre. As part of the University of Cambridge, the ADC Theatre is a reliable and secure partner. We will ensure your event is ticketed smoothly and your ticketing experience is hassle-free.
additional services to help you sell your event, such as marketing reports, setting up of special offers, season tickets and many more.
We charge a 9% commission (+ VAT) on sales for ticketed events. With the lowest commission rate in Cambridge, we also include many
For more information, or to request the use of ADC Ticketing, please contact ticketing@ adctheatre.com.
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day seats
booking information Book for events at the ADC Theatre, Corpus Playroom and other venues across Cambridge in a single transaction. Tickets are non-refundable and nonexchangeable. Full Terms and Conditions are available online or on request.
how to book online
Visit adcticketing.com to book for performances at other Cambridge venues.
o o b 01223 300085 ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge Mon – Sat: 1pm – 7pm Tickets can be bought in person or over the phone.
on the door
Tickets can be bought on the door of the ADC Theatre or Corpus Playroom 30 minutes before every performance, if the show has not sold out.
concessions
Concessions are offered for under 16s, students, senior citizens, CAMCard holders and jobseekers.
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opening nights Beat the crowds and book for opening night of ADC Mainshows. ADC Opening Nights are £2 cheaper than the rest of the run and let you see the show before anyone else.
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Book for any of our events up to one hour before every performance at adctheatre.com or corpusplayroom.com.
box office
In the event of a sell-out, a limited number of Day Seats may be available on the day of the performance from the time the Box Office opens. Any remaining Day Seats are released online 30 minutes later. Please contact the Box Office for more information.
seating
Tickets for most performances at the ADC Theatre are sold from a reserved seating plan (see below). Some lateshows, bar shows and studio shows, as well as all performances at the Corpus Playroom have unreserved seating.
access The ADC Theatre is fully wheelchair accessible and the auditorium is fitted with an infra-red audio system. We regret that the Corpus Playroom is not currently wheelchair accessible.
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adc bar
f n i g Come along for a pre-show drink at our lively theatre bar. The ADC Bar is open Tuesday to Saturday from 7pm and stays serving until the early hours of the morning. With a friendly atmosphere and student prices, is it a popular place to come for a drink whether or not you are seeing a show.
We have a fantastic range of alcoholic and soft drinks as well as snacks and ice creams to take into the show. Choose one of our 11 different gins for your gin and tonic, have a pint of Real Ale from the local Milton Brewery or sample our Cocktail of the Week. Avoid the queues by ordering your interval drinks before the show.
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post-show discussions
Our post-show discussions with members of the creative team and acting company of our mainshows give you a chance to ask the team your questions about the show and discuss what you thought of it. It’s an informal way of finding out a bit more about the production, the creative process behind it, and the experience of putting together a show at the ADC Theatre. All discussions are free and take place in the auditorium immediately after the show finishes. Macbeth – Thu 15 January Equus – Thu 29 January Pravda – Thu 12 February Tis Pity She’s A Whore – Thu 19 February The Strip – Thu 5 March
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adc theatre corpus playroom
You can book online for free for all performances at the ADC Theatre and Corpus Playroom at
adctheatre.com corpusplayroom.com Box Office 01223 300085 brochure design by Daniel Morgenstern production photographs by Johannes Hjorth and Hatti Simpson