Past shows by Downing Dramatic Society

• The Balcony

  March 2004
  Condom packets crunch underfoot and breakfast is eaten straight off a mirror in The Grand Balcony, a brothel designed for the fulfilment of any conceivable sexual fantasy. With the help of Madam Irma's prostitutes, three men act out double lives as a bishop, a judge and a general. All the while a bloody revolution threatens to penetrate into the brothel and, when the state falls, its patrons of are given the chance to wield in reality the powers that they have hitherto only play-acted. Anita Berber Furniture Removal cordially invites you to be rubbed up the right way by its production of Jean Genet's masterpiece.

• Julia C

  October–November 2003
  Shakespeare meets Big Brother in this new piece of student writing. Deep inside the Big Brother house, one of the contestants, Julia, is getting too big for her boots. Will her housemates' conspiracy to get rid of her succeed in producing 'the unkindest cut of all'? Adapting Shakespeare's Julius Caesar into a modern language to deal with "modern issues", this play combines elements of social satire with observation on the personal devastation produced by manipulation, spite and domestic politics to provide an exciting chance for some early Michaelmas drama.

• The Frogs

  June 2002

• Death By Mirror

  March 2002

• Cold Comfort Farm

  February 2002