- November 2001
Following the success of last year's One Night Stands, the Amateur Dramatic Club return with three more evenings of late-night theatre. Energetic. Experimental. Hilarious. Hell-raising. Funny. Flexible. Innovative. Interactive. And lasting about an hour. One night stands have never been this satisfying... An evening of improvisation and a cavalcade of (gory) excerpts from tragedies are two of the delights on offer, with the final instalment of term left tantalisingly open for anyone with a new idea, a theatrical challenge or a desire to be different.
- November 2001
Sounds like a typical evening in the ADC bar? Thespian bitchiness and backstabbing abound this week in the theatre, as the Amateur Dramatic Club initiate their freshers into the Cambridge theatre scene with style with this production of Berkoff's satire on the theatrical chattering set. In this short show originally written for TV, the audience eavesdrops on actors, producers, stars and wannabes dining out in London after the premier of the latest revival of The Three Sisters. Outside their incestuous theatrical bubble, Poll Tax riots course down the Strand, burning cars and attacking pedestrians as they go. The dark underbelly of the theatrical scene is exposed in Berkoff's hilarious satire - don't miss your chance to see it on the ADC stage!
- November 2001
A thrilling mix of ancient and modern hits the ADC stage with this year's freshers' mainshow. Cambridge's freshest new talent will stage Anouilh's compelling adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone, one of the world's oldest and most powerful dramas. Antigone's brother, Polixene, has dided in civil war. Disobeying her father's orders, she escapes the city at night to give him a proper burial. Her rebellious actions set in motion a chain of events which, as the Chorus comments, can only end in tragedy. Sophocles' original drama explores the themes of duty and honour, while Anouilh's adaptation adds an extra twist in illuminating the machinations of Greek tragedy. This moving and complex show should offer the freshers an exciting challenge, providing their audience with a thought-provoking and intelligent piece of theatre.
- November 2001
Under the menacing leadership of Stefan Golaszewski comes a group of disturbecomedians with a manifesto for change and a painfully funny show of threateninoriginality. The seedy underworld of the subconscious is to these writers whaimpressions of Mavis from Coronation Street were to Les Dennis. They are presentinCambridge with a new program for what is funny and new ways in which comedcan be performed. There will be no hilarious accents. There will be no fakbeards. This is the Real Comedy we have always secretly wanted but been toRuss Abbot-laden to face. What comes now is the ultimate variety show, a whirlinmix of comedy, music, magic, dance, and song. The change starts with this showand the first change to be made is to admit that jokes aren’t funny. See this show and you’lnever laugh at Ronnie Corbett again, except to mock his size.
- November 2001
Following the success of last year's One Night Stands, the Amateur Dramatic Club return with three more evenings of late-night theatre. Energetic. Experimental. Hilarious. Hell-raising. Funny. Flexible. Innovative. Interactive. And lasting about an hour. One night stands have never been this satisfying... An evening of improvisation and a cavalcade of (gory) excerpts from tragedies are two of the delights on offer, with the final instalment of term left tantalisingly open for anyone with a new idea, a theatrical challenge or a desire to be different.
- October–November 2001
Surrounded by his resentful assistants and embittered wife, and fearing that a new generation of architects will supplant him soon, Halvard Solness has become trapped in denial of all that he had once hoped for. Yet, when life-affirming Hilde Wangel arrives for a mysterious visit, his dreams of 'castles in the air' look set to be restored. First, however, he must confront his ultimate fears. The Amateur Dramatic Club use a vibrant, modern translation and original score to introduce nineteenth-century Norway and the story of Solness, the Master Builder, whose troubled life forms a tragic centrepiece to this beautiful play of tragic hope.
- October 2001
A woman was systematically raped and tortured for political reasons by a man whose face she never saw; years later her husband brings home a new friend for a drink, and his voice sounds horrifyingly familiar... This modern masterpiece is at once a claustrophobic suspense thriller and dizzying meditation on the nature of evil, defiance and forgiveness. In a world where so many countries are trying desperately to reconcile the dark and recent past with hope for the future, Death and the Maiden has never been more relevant. Written by Dorfman in exile from Chile during the Pinochet years, the plaputs torturer and victim face to face, and asks: "What next?"
- October 2001
Following the success of last year's One Night Stands, the Amateur Dramatic Club return with three more evenings of late-night theatre. Energetic. Experimental. Hilarious. Hell-raising. Funny. Flexible. Innovative. Interactive. And lasting about an hour. One night stands have never been this satisfying... An evening of improvisation and a cavalcade of (gory) excerpts from tragedies are two of the delights on offer, with the final instalment of term left tantalisingly open for anyone with a new idea, a theatrical challenge or a desire to be different.
- September 2001
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- March 2001
- November–December 2000
- November 2000
by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
- October 2000
'Road' represented the theatrical debut of Jim Cartwright, described by The Sunday Telegraph as “a writer of outstanding talent”. It won the Samuel Beckett Award in 1986, and launched his reputation as one of the country's most eloquent, radical playwrights. His string of subsequent successes culminated in the 1998 filming of his play 'Little Voice', starring Jane Horrocks, who had also taken a leading role in the original production of 'Road'.
One of the most striking of the 1980's state of the nation dramas, 'Road' casts an unsparing mirror on an industrial town ravaged by the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher. The works of Jim Cartwright have never been performed in Cambridge before. Pembroke Players' 'Road' is a timely recognition of his genius.
- May 2000
- November 1999
"The Wave" is based on a true incident that occurred in the Palto High School, California, in 1969. A history teacher, Ron Jones, tried to inspire his disaffected students by conducting an 'experiment in discipline' - reproducing the mentality behind the Hitler Youth movement.
The result, according to Jones, was "one of the most frightening events I have ever experienced in the classroom". No one talked about what happened for 3 years.
It was in 1981 that, under the pseudonym 'Morton Rhue', Jones wrote "The Wave". A minor classic, particularly in Germany, it seeks to get to grips with the psychology behind Nazism, and has sold 1.5 million copies world-wide. It has been made into a play in 16 different countries.
Jack Thorne's new adaptation of The Wave has been described by Ron Jones as 'a wonderful and important play'. It aims to reveal how the pressures towards conformity thrown up within the classroom can create the conditions necessary for a cult born out of adolescent despair. In a year in which members of a secret group of 'outsiders' - the Trenchcoat Mafia - shot dead 24 of their classmates in a Colorado school, the enduring relevance of the message cannot be doubted.
- November 1999
- November 1998
- January 1997
This show is a dummy used by Camdram for testing purposes only.
- January 1997
This show is a dummy used by Camdram for testing purposes only.
- November 1996
- November 1994
