19:30, Tue 12th – Sat 16th December 2023 at Corpus Playroom

Set in 1997, over fifty years after the war that brought them together, three Special Operations Executive agents meet to record interviews for a television documentary investigating the murder of their colleague at the hands of the Gestapo.

As Leo, Vera and John wait to be interviewed in a beautiful English garden, drinking tea and doing the crossword, pleasantries give way to deeper darker subjects and a web of self-deception, lies and guilt begins to emerge.

Love, revenge and feelings of guilt are at the centre of this fascinating play and in an era when ‘alternative facts’ replace actual facts, we are reminded that the first victim of war is the truth.

19:15, Thu 23rd – Sat 25th November 2023 at Howard Theatre, Downing College

It’s the week before Christmas, the chestnuts are roasting and the snow is falling...but crisis has struck in Nether Wallop! The village hall has been booked out for a wedding and the am-dram society, the Nether Wallop Players, is forced to do a radio version of their annual Christmas show. This year it’s Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Sounds easy enough? But throw in an ill stage manager, cast tensions and a deaf old man and you have the perfect recipe for DDS’s Christmas production! Unfortunately, no Muppets involved xx

20:00, Tue 21st – Wed 22nd November 2023 at Christ's New Court Theatre

It’s A Christmas Carol, but Scrooge’s greatest crime, over being tight-fisted money hungry boss, is that he forgets his northern heritage and chooses to spend his Christmas in… London! Filled with smash hits like ‘Let it Sludge’ and ‘Away in a Pret-a-Manger’, A Christ’s-mas Carol is the best, silliest and most over-the-top way to celebrate bridgemas

19:00, Tue 21st – Sat 25th November 2023 at Pembroke New Cellars

“I wish I had no love in me at all so I could better bear the things that need doing. I hate being held back and still, still I’m mourning the past.”

The early twentieth century.

Sophie has created a life for herself in a new country. When Jim, the younger brother she left as a boy, makes the same journey to come live with her, the siblings must renegotiate their relationship and the political tensions threatening to overwhelm their two-bedroom flat. At turns witty, tender, and thoughtful, this two-hander asks what happens when the people we love are too familiar and too strange, and how the fight for one home – family, community, or place – can complicate another.

19:00, Fri 17th – Sun 19th November 2023 at Friends of Peterhouse Theatre

A young Nigel describes childhood in Wolverhampton, existing between his father's untreated rage and his mother's crap cooking - wrecked meals are often replaced (lovingly) with wedges of black, burnt toast. From Pyrex plates, to Bisto, to Terry's All Gold and Caramac, Nigel takes on culinary preparation (and a ‘girlish’ home economics class) in the face of teenage calamity: preferring ‘gay’ sweets, his mother’s death, his father's remarriage to the insidious Joan Potter, and the sourness that ensues between them as they fight knife and fork for Mr Slater's affections. A striking young chef at Nigel’s pub job sparks confidence in his queer exploration - when all comes to a head after his father’s passing, Nigel abandons the nightmarish Clayford home, as we leave him on the brink of a very different life at the steps of the Savoy.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/may/03/nigel-slater-meringue-recipes

20:30, Fri 10th November 2023 at Christ's College Buttery

We're back, and funnier than ever! Your favourite famously mediocre night has returned (again) to showcase Cambridge's best comedic performers. Whether you're a stand-up guy, a sketch girlie or an average comedy song enjoyer, we've got a night of free entertainment for you!

21:30, Tue 7th November 2023 at Corpus Playroom

21:30, Wed 1st – Sat 4th November 2023 at Corpus Playroom

I resented you deeply. I trusted you beyond reason.

Dominic is a talented neurosurgeon, a devout Catholic, and a devoted husband to his wife Cathy, with whom he is expecting his first child. But his idealism is tested when he reunites with Emily, an old medical school colleague whose daughter Felicity has recently been diagnosed with cancer. As he oversees Felicity's case, Dom feels the carefully drawn lines between his personal and professional identities begin to dissolve. Doctor, parent, sceptic, patient – an operating theatre becomes a Church becomes a home. Where is that faith owed to a God and to a girl; to his family and to his patients — and where is that faith owed to himself?

23:00, Wed 25th – Fri 27th October 2023 at ADC Theatre

School's out! Entrenched monetary privilege via the form of private education is, however, not.

What to do about this pervasive social inequality? Make a sketch show, naturally.

Come and witness old and new state-educated comedians punch well and truly UP, and provide a truly Comprehensive Understanding of the state of education.

19:45, Tue 10th – Sat 14th October 2023 at ADC Theatre

“What happens to a dream deferred...does it explode?”

Inspired by Langston Hughes’ “Harlem”, this play tells the story of the Younger family, who struggle with what it means to be black alongside finding their place in a new and hostile neighbourhood. While Mama Lena and son Walter must negotiate a new influx of money and how that changes their position within society, daughter Beneatha tries to find love, questioning beauty standards on her own journey to find pride in her African heritage.

Will the Youngers find the key to living openly with pride for their blackness, or will they crumble under the pressure of their finances and please the neighbours who so desperately want them gone?