- February–March 2006
The Circus is in town. For one week only, hear the freaks speak, see the magician saw people, smell the lions and watch the clowns drown in a bucket of whitewash or something. Hurry. Before it's too late, before it's all closed down for health and safety reasons.
The Footlights Spring Revue is one of the most inventive and consistently hilarious comedy shows of the Cambridge year. And this one is going to top the lot. In the Big Top.
Watch the trailer at www.seethecircus.com
- December 2005
The Footlights/ADC Pantomime is back, and this time it’s Epic! Set amongst the great pyramids of Egypt, the towering columns of Rome, the succulent olives of Greece, join Spartacus on his journey from zero to hero, from slavery to bravery, as he gladiates his way to freedom.
Featuring a smouldering Cleopatra, a well-meaning but insane Emperor and a loveable Pantomime Horse, this is a show for all ages.
Complete with original songs, this fantastic new production comes from the most exciting comedy writers in Cambridge, and features some of its leading performers.
www.spartacusthepanto.com
- October 2005
The world famous Footlights present their immensely popular Smokers – an hour of stand-up and sketches from the very best of Cambridge comedy talent.
- June 2005
An adventure into the hearts and minds of the misfits of our world and the next, taking in fantastic catburglars, garrulous angels and daydreaming aquarium attendants, all bound up in a quest for the forgotten, the mislaid and the yearned-for missing piece of their particular puzzle. Join the Cambridge Footlights as they weave their mysterious way through the afterlife, the lowlife and the good life, in search of the things we often want, but rarely get...
The tour will begin and end with a Cambridge run, taking in the Edinburgh Fringe and a National Tour. Visit the website at www.underthebluebluemoon.co.uk
- May 2005
The world famous Footlights present their immensely popular Smokers - an hour of stand-up and sketches from the very best of Cambridge comedy talent.
Described by Varsity as 'un-hyped excellence' and by TCS as 'fast and hilariously unrelenting' these are some of the most exciting performances around. The material is always brand new and has proven consistently to be the strongest source of new writing in Cambridge. Displaying a massive range in styles - from the highly absurd to super naturalism - Smokers provide experimental comedy at a very high standard.
Book early to avoid disappointment - these really are not to be missed.
- March 2005
The world-famous Cambridge Footlights are proud to present the winner of the Harry Porter Prize, awarded annually to a new comic play. Established three years ago to celebrate the contribtion to Footlights of the Club’s Senior Archivist, the Harry Porter Prize gives Cambridge’s stickiest comic spiders a chance to spin their web on the ADC stage.
This year's winner is 'Evelyn Budden; Auctioneer', a comic tale about an auctioneer who accidentally kills the people he loves. Told in flashback with auctioneering interludes and a musical finale, it will prove to be a real one-off.
- February 2005
From Footlights regulars Joe Thomas and Raph Shirley comes this hilarious comment on modern insecurities and inadequacies. Featuring a sensitive mix of realist and surrealist writing, this new take on the sketch show promises to be the most innovative and laugh packed production of the year.
Building on the success of their past shows – Raph starred in this year’s tour show, Beyond A Joke, and Joe co-wrote this year’s hilarious pantomime Great Expectations – and the illustrious history of the Cambridge Footlights, this show promises to showcase the very best comic talent in the University.
- February 2005
Footlights present their immensely popular Smokers – each one a laugh-packed hour of the finest new comedy. A novel appendix to the pub, Smokers provide a completely original mix of sketches, characters and stand-up. Footlights continue to produce experimental and unpredictable material designed to have you in stitches, whatever your sense of humour. A regular sell-out, be sure to come early. Non-smokers welcome.
- December 2004
This year's Footlights/ADC Pantomime brings a classic Dickensian masterpiece to the stage. Deep in Victorian London, this panoply of music, dance and humour tracks the funny and poignant story of a young boy's quest for happiness. As our comic hero treds the pathway from poverty to riches, he is accompanied by a sparkling cast of lovers, villains, dames, ugly sisters and the all-important Pantomime Cow.
This bizarre mix of the idiosyncratic and grotesque combines romance and redemption with gothic comedy to form a hilarious Christmas treat for adults and children alike.
- June 2004
Across Britain snow falls. In this altered landscape, banal situations
escalate to horrific and hilarious extremes. 'Beyond A Joke' promises to
showcase the cream of Cambridge's current comedy talent, in a show that
will be performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in August and tour the country in
September.
- March 2004
- February 2004
- December 2003
Ten years have passed and the inhabitants of Wonderland have called Alice back through the looking glass one last time to save their world from destruction. Join Alice, the Mad Hatter, the much maligned Jabberwock and the little known Furious Bandersnatch for a lively evening of song, dance, comedy and extremely cross dressing.
- October 2003
The 2003 Footlights tour show returns to the place where it all began, at the end of a nationwide tour visiting centres of culture from the Isle of Wight to Glasgow.
After sell-outs at the ADC and a month at the Edinburgh Festival, this really is your last chance to see the understated, dark and maliciously funny story of a lover cuckolded by his next-door neighbour, a girl who's celebrating losing her virginity to a farmhand, a man nearing the end of his days with a Pot Noodle and a kid bullied into conducting lightning for an experiment - and a lot more besides.
Directed by award-winning stand-up Mark Watson and BBC4 writer Tim Key and featuring the final Cambridge appearances of five of its most celebrated comedians, this is something you shouldn't miss.
