- November 2013
Description As Michaelmas Term draws to a close, one cannot go home for the holidays without witnessing a quintessential Girton tradition...
The GADS Michaelmas Panto of course!!
Get ready for a night of masquerade madness, southern secretaries, overbearing college parents, and a magical Christmas Ent. Will Ella get to go to the Christmas Ent and meet her handsome prince, or will her evil supervisor stop her in her tracks? Maybe with the help of the Mistress Fairy Godmother, everything will fall into place?
- November 2013
The creepy butler; an English Colonel with the prerequisite stiff upper lip; a shady French art dealer and his moll; the bumbling police inspector and a well-meaning local sleuth who seems to attract murder wherever she goes - they're all here, and all caught up in the hilarious antics which follow the mysterious death of the house's owner. It soon becomes clear that the murderer isn't finished yet, but will the murderer be unmasked before everyone else has met their doom?
'Murdered to Death' is a hilarious spoof of the best of Agatha Christie traditions, set in a country manor house in the 1930s and to be performed in Girton's beautiful Stanley Library.
- June 2013
Come up to Girton and 'loosen they bursting udder' with GADS this May Week, as we perform E.P. Coleridge's comic translation of this classical tale, with nothing but some sheets of cardboard and a marker pen!
Tickets £2 on the door.
- November 2012
"If You Please" is a French Dada-Surrealist play and is completely different from any play you will have previously acted in or come across. Written by Breton and Soupault, two titans of the surrealist movement, and first performed in 1920, If You Please takes hackneyed and clichéd plots and transforms them into thrilling and marvellous absurdity. It is the ADC week 7 late show and has a large cast with a good mix of male and female characters. This play promises to be an entertaining but testing project for everyone from beginners to the most experienced actors.
- June 2009
In a sleepy town, the intricate and personal stories of Santiago Nasar,
Angela and Bayardo unfold - in arms length of the audience. Angela is
returned to her family home the night of her wedding to Bayardo San Roman,
when he discovers that she is not a virgin. Her brother is forced by the
code of honour to kill the violator. Santiago Nasar wakes up the next morning,
unaware of his fate. Very soon, the whole town learns of the murderous plot
against him.
The Judith E. Wilson Studio will be transformed into a small town, thrusting
the audience and the actors into the same dramatic space. The audience will
be granted a mask of invisibility, allowing them to wander around the studio
and intimately observe the characters, piecing the plot together without being
seen.
- March 2009
- June 2008
- March 2008
'In this life, one thing counts, in the bank, large amounts.'
Girton Amatuer Dramatics Society Presents 'Oliver', Lionel Bart's hit musical. The show has already been hyped as the highlight of the term, and promises to be an unforgettable experience for all involved.
- June 2007
- March 2006
So many hopes, so many fears, and all those oh so nears. Join the ecstacy and agony of being in love and following England in World Cups. July 4th 1990, the World Cup semi-final, England vs West Germany. In Majorca, Bill and Monica are on holiday attempting to rekindle their troubled marriage. Monica dreams of an affair with Gary Lineker, but, in fact, she is seeing Bill's friend, travel writer Dan Hudson. Things get spicy when Dan unexpectedly arrives at their hotel, and, together, in the company of Bill's colleague Ian and German tourist rep, Birgetta, they settle down to watch the game on TV... Through 90 tense minutes, excruciating extra-time and the inevitable penalty shoot-out, the drama on the football field is matched by the drama in the hotel room.
- March 2003
