07:00, Wed 1st May 2024 at Not Applicable

Film project across the course of Lent term.

Pride and Prejudice: A Concept Film is a short film version of Jane Austen’s beloved social comedy/romance. It is condensed down to four scenes, in order to illustrate the wider vision for a full filmed production!

Pride and Prejudice is arguably Jane Austen’s most beloved social comedy and love story. It tells the story of Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters, coming of age in Regency England. As she falls in love with Fitzwilliam Darcy, a man she had sworn to despise, the couple must overcome the titular flaws of pride and prejudice to find their happy ending.

19:45, Tue 26th – Sat 30th March 2024 at ADC Theatre
14:30, Sat 30th March 2024 at ADC Theatre

15:00, Tue 19th March 2024 Venue to be confirmed

21:30, Wed 13th – Sat 16th March 2024 at Corpus Playroom

19:30, Wed 6th – Sat 9th March 2024 at Fitzpatrick Hall

In a unique double-bill, BATS brings you David Mamet’s Prairie du Chien and Stephen Jeffreys’ Bugles at the Gates of Jalalabad. On a 3AM train passing though Wisconsin a traveller tells a tale of jealousy, murder and the supernatural; at night, outside the gates of the last British fort in Afghanistan, four buglers stand guard, awaiting their fate, sounding the advance. These plays present us with charged moments of fear and uncertainty, and the sudden catastrophes that can spring out of them.

19:00, Mon 4th March 2024 at ADC Theatre (Larkum Studio)

Bread Theatre & Film Company in collaboration with FUSE proudly present a reading of Jackie Sibblies Drury's play "We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Südwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915".

The play is a comedic dramatization of the largely forgotten Herero and Namaqua genocide which took place in Namibia between 1904 and 1907 when the region was a German colony, after Germany confiscated tribal lands and the Herero people rebelled. The retribution over four years by German soldiers resulted in more than 65,000 deaths. The play deals with the enormity of this story by introducing it through the actors of a "presentation" which is intended to tell the story, and shows how the various players respond to the gruesome facts during first rehearsal.

21:30, Tue 20th – Sat 24th February 2024 at Pembroke New Cellars

Death. It's everywhere. Especially in Victorian London. Especially if you run a funeral business. And especially if you're Etheridge, an undertaker whose long-time business partner has just kicked the bucket. Now, commissions are piling up: snobbish families, oedipal complexes, double lives, truant vicars, ferrets, raving ghosts, and a surprise christening. All these end up on Etheridge's walnut counter. And all within the space of an hour.

Watch Etheridge try to squeeze every penny he can from this unrelenting procession of absurdity, lurching between slapstick, surrealism, and cynicism. It's an original student-written comedy show that will have you dying of laughter (or cholera, or old age, or food poisoning, or a freak radish accident).

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19:30, Fri 9th – Mon 12th February 2024 at Heong Gallery, Downing College

Lesbians, quiche, etc.

"No men. No meat. All manners."

It’s 1956 and The Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein are having their annual quiche breakfast. As the assembled ‘widows’ await the announcement of the society's prize-winning quiche, the atomic bomb sirens sound! How will the ‘widows’ respond as their idyllic town and lifestyle faces attacks? When placed under the pressure of a life without egg, they must face the real root of their love for quiche and what has brought them all together (see title for clues). DDS is so excited to stage this ‘cult hit’, a tasty recipe of hysterical laughs, unsuccessful repressions, and delicious discoveries.

19:45, Tue 6th – Sat 10th February 2024 at ADC Theatre
14:30, Sat 10th February 2024 at ADC Theatre

‘A new world calls across the ocean, a new world calls across the sky, a new world whispers in the shadows.’

These are the stories and characters of today, the Songs for a New World. The first musical from Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown (The Last Five Years, Parade), this moving collection of powerful songs examines life, love and the choices we make.

Brown transports his audience from the deck of a 1492 Spanish sailing ship to a ledge 57 stories above Fifth Avenue to meet a startling array of characters ranging from a young man who is determined that basketball is his ticket out of the ghetto to a woman whose dream of marrying rich nabs her the man of her dreams and a soulless marriage.

19:00, Tue 6th – Sat 10th February 2024 at Pembroke New Cellars

She may be dead and buried in the ground. She may be bathing and sleeping no more. But she lived a complicated life. And this is her story.

Once, she was an engineer, selling her mind for everything and earning nothing; now, she sells her body, working on her own terms. Once, she had a family, with children and grandchildren; now, they’ve all fallen apart. Once, she had a caring friend; now, even she’s abandoned her. Someday, they will forgive each other and remember her story, but only once that story has been told - when she’s dead and buried beneath her willow tree.