21:00, Sun 21st June 2026 at King's College Provost's Garden
14:00, Mon 22nd June 2026 at King's College Provost's Garden
21:00, Tue 23rd June 2026 at King's College Provost's Garden
Easter May Week
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Mars. A Cambridge that no longer exists on Earth. A cybernetic dictator called the Master, who saved these people from a dying planet and has spent every day since reminding them of it. Kolony: Cambridge is a sci-fi political tragedy in blank verse — Shakespeare meets Orwell, set on another planet.
The play tracks three attempts to bring the Master down. A lone revolutionary who thinks heroism is enough. A couple whose love becomes the regime's next experiment. And a woman nobody notices, who works out that tyranny only survives on the attention you give it. It's set in Cambridge because it's about Cambridge: the comforts that buy our silence, the excellence that becomes its own kind of cage, and the bargain every institution offers the people inside it.
Staged in the Provost's Garden at King's College as the sun goes down, the play unfolds in real twilight — the light draining out of the sky while a colony on Mars decides whether it can still be saved. Funny in places. Devastating in others. A play about what it actually takes for a community to refuse. Come for Mars. Stay for the question you're left holding on the way out.