- January 2026
Not so long ago, in the nearby land of Addenbrooke's hospital, there was a dark age of busy schedules and burned out doctors. And the busiest and most burned out of all these doctors was the lonely HERCULES.
It has been TWO YEARS since Hercules became a doctor. Coincidentally, it has also been TWO YEARS since Hercules felt happy. The drudgery of the foundation programme has Hercules feeling low. Is this all medicine has to offer? Does any of this mean anything? Will I ever feel like I belong? These are the doubts that plague Hercules while he's bored out of his mind pretending to pay attention to his patients.
The cynical consultant HADES knows the answer: yes, no, and no. He secretly gets Hercules struck off the medical register to spare him from any more misery. Unfortunately, instead of finding a rewarding and fulfilling career in a different profession, Hercules just ends up back in clinical school. When he signed up for lifelong learning, he didn't know this was what it meant.
The only thing that gets Hercules through another three years of the spiral curriculum is the hope that he will one day find meaning. But to find meaning, Hercules must become a TRUE DOCTOR.
But what is the measure of a TRUE DOCTOR?
All proceeds go to the Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust and Cambridge Rare Disease Network, so your laughter helps patients too.
- January–February 2025
On the ever tumultuous wards of Addenbrookes, disillusioned F2 Robert and beleaguered Reg Nancy work endlessly to keep everything just barely stable. In another world, the endlessly positive Gisellle and her trusty friends Edward and Pip galivant about, curing all form of fantastical malady. But Giselle grows tired of this all too perfect life and the devious Royal Physician has a dastardly scheme to make sure she never sees Andalasia again. Portals, medical madness and boats lods of dubiously valuable teaching - come see all this and much, much more in Transplanted, the 2025 Addenbrooke's Charity Pantomime!
- January 2024
After three miserable years of their undergraduate medical degree, Cosette, Eponine and Marius are ready to enter the world of real-life medicine to #savelives.
But things don’t go quite to plan.
With yet another strike on its way, scary supervisors, and some unexpected guests on their way to the hospital, will our courageous trio and their new friends be able to keep the NHS afloat? Will professionalism seminars save the day? Will clinical life kill the dream they dreamed? Join us for the 31st Addenbrooke’s Charity Pantomime to find out!
- January 2023
The Addenbrooke’s Charity Pantomime is back for its 30th Year Anniversary! With Elsa starting her new job as an FY1 in Addenbrooke’s, and her sister, Anna, joining Clinical School, problems begin to arise when Elsa is tempted away from Medicine and towards Finance. Will Elsa be allured to the dark side? Can Anna bring the MDT together? Will you change your mind about medicine after the show? Find out at the 2023 Addenbrooke’s Charity Pantomime!
- June 2022
The great tradition that is the Addenbrooke’s Charity Pantomime is returning after the pandemic! For the uninitiated, this is an annual production in which medical students put on their own panto at the Mumford Theatre to raise money for the Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust. Previous titles have included “The Little Murmurmaid”, “Peter Pancreas”, “Shrektococcus” – you get the idea!
We are pleased to announce that the title will be “BEAUTY AND THE YEAST INFECTION” – think mediaeval France, talking objects and of course that sexy beefcake Gaston up to no good!
- January 2020
- November 2007
The Elective. A chance for medical students to roam free around the world learning medicine. It is often an exciting and ‘studious’ time for the students. But this year, for one group of elective students, the dream goes bad. The modern world has some dangerously evil people in it. None so much as the abominable MB-PhD students at Cambridge University.
Raising money for The Oncology Unit, based at Addenbrooke's, funding support and treatment for their patients.
Tickets available from the Mumford Box Office 0845 196 2320. Book early to avoid disappointment, especially for Friday and Saturday night performances.
http://www.addenbrookespanto.co.uk
http://web.anglia.ac.uk/mumfordtheatre/information/booking.htm
