- May 2022
We are really excited to announce our first scratch night celebrating the talent of students who identify as marginalized genders at Tall Trees bar on the Monday the 9th of May. A pound of every ticket sold will be donated to Cambridge Rape Crisis. We’re looking to celebrate some wonderful student performances while raising money for a brilliant cause.
We've got a great variety of performers including stand-up, sketch, live music, spoken word and a 45 minute set from Playtime towards the end of the night!
- March 2022
‘SWIM’ is the winning script of Cambridge Creatives x CUADC’s scriptwriting competition. When Cass is sent by her Dad to visit her older sister, Thea, at university, in the hope that this will help her out of a tough time, they struggle to get along. This short film focuses on an emotionally precarious relationship between sisters and how, in just over 24 hours together, they learn to be in each other’s company again.
- March 2022
Multi award winning play Moderation tells the story of two ex-social media moderators who meet again years after quitting their job when one decides to sue the company that exposed them to the traumatic material which left both with different psychological scars. For one of them, who has become unable to touch the ground, the prospect of digging up the past has little appeal. For the other, whose drinking led to a head injury that has damaged their ability to remember things, reconstructing what happened seems like the only way to heal. Based on real accounts, Moderation reveals the true impact of watching the worst things on the internet for a living.
The play won this year’s CUADC Playwriting Competition, winning £200 and a run in the Larkum Studio. It was also co-winner of this year’s Cambridge Creatives Playwriting Competition, which was judged by industry professionals Sally Abbott, Luke Barnes, and Alexis Zegerman.
- February 2022
Alex wants to chat. You can say no. Obviously, you can say no. You can leave, even, if you wanted
to—it’d be inconvenient and strange and awkward, but you could. Because being told what to do is
wrong, like morally and stuff. Alex hates it.
They also hate stripes. And small spaces. And loud noises. And loud silences and the phrase ‘suck it
up’. And people or things touching theirs or other people’s eyes, especially when theirs or other
people’s eyes are already red and puffy, and they or other people just want to be left alone with
their puffy and red and watery eyes.
Needless to say, Alex is dealing with some stuff—family stuff, world stuff, other stuff.
LOUD is a blend (or clashing, maybe) of different styles: part stand-up, part poetry, audience
interaction, The Sims-esque riffing of instructions, and, of course, just some normal dialogue. It’s as
clear or metaphoric or anecdotal or just plain evasive as Alex needs it to be, as they accept what’s
happening in their life, and who’s in it, and who’s not.
- January 2022
N.B. this show has been cancelled
Cambridge Creatives is hosting 'Canned Laughter'- a night of standup comedy this Sunday at the Blue Moon Pub, followed by a social for all those interested in getting into the arts world. Tickets are £3.50 (the cost of a meal deal?!), so it's the cheapest you'll ever see 12 of the funniest student comedians in Cambridge right now!
