THE CAMBRIDGE PLOUGH JAG is looking for a DIRECTOR!

I am Sapphy, (a finalist in English and lover of rhymes and tall-tales) and I am super excited that my silly satire folk-play is coming to the Downing Festival of New Writing.

A modern-day take on a traditional folk play; full of satire and silliness, jigs and jeers, sexual frustration and sexual innuendo ;)
An ode to Cambridge where no one comes out unscathed.

Champagne-socialist-King’s-College-sleaze Boretholomew is down on his luck… He can’t get the attention of the one girl he really hankers for: the dozy English student Paige Turner (who never does her reading).

She has her eyes set on another man, and I am sure they would have the perfect romance too…. if he wasn’t DEAD!

Follow this rabble of quintessential Cambridge characters on a journey of booze, romance, violence, death and resurrection.

Things take a turn for the worse
when they mess up their verse!

For more information please read the application pack below:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yW9IedEV2naLiFnWvXfsExKt9TFD0W6dUrrh8ZZewdg/edit?usp=sharing

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Contact sw2112@cam.ac.uk before 21st Feb 2026 00:00 for more details.