- April 2022
Through a series of vignettes and songs, an overall arc of relationships throughout the course of life is suggested – from dating, through the agonies of family to pensioners’ pick-up lines.
This insightful celebration of our drive to connect pays tribute to love and relationships, wherever you may be on that journey.
With book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro and music by Jimmy Roberts, Pied Pipers Musical Theatre Club is delighted to bring this updated version of the longest running off-Broadway revue in history to the ADC.
This amateur production of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change is presented by an arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd.
- April 2022
Will Shakespeare has got writer’s block. Looking for a muse to help him complete his new play, Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter, he chances upon the lovely and engaged to be married, Viola de Lesseps.
At the same time, Philip Henslowe, owner of the Rose Playhouse is desperate for a new show to get his feet out of the fire and pay off some nagging debts. Will hasn’t finished the play and the actors are on tour. But that won’t stop them - after hilarious auditions, a rag-tag bunch of actors come together, with mysterious new and talented thespian, Thomas Kent.
Will the show go on? Will Viola and Will live happily ever after? Who knows? It’s a mystery!
Based on the Oscar-award winning film starring Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow. Written by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman and adapted for the stage by Lee Hall.
This amateur production of Shakespeare In Love is presented by an arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd.
- April 2022
Winner of eight Tony Awards®, Once tells the unforgettable story of a Dublin street musician and a piano-playing Czech immigrant drawn together by their shared love of music. Over the course of one fateful week, an unexpected friendship quickly evolves into a powerful but complicated love story. With an ensemble cast of local actor-musicians playing their instruments live on stage, Once is an uplifting, modern-day musical that reminds us of the power of music to connect us all. Featuring songs from the critically acclaimed film, including the Oscar-winning song Falling Slowly, this spellbinding score will have you holding your breath from beginning to end.
- March–April 2022
May 1789 - a fleet of eleven ships containing 759 convicts set sail for the other side of the world. The convicts are allowed to perform the first British play ever to be staged in Australia to celebrate George III’s birthday. With only two copies of the text, a cast of disaffected convicts and one leading lady about to be hanged, the rehearsal process is far from straight forward for their inexperienced director, Lieutenant Ralph Clark. Despite the brutality, starvation and hardships the convicts learn to respect and support one another as they work together to create a “memorable” production of The Recruiting Officer.
- March 2022
Tired of all the scripted 'reality' TV?
Keeping Up With the Kimprov is your daily dose of reality TV, but actually unscripted! What minor inconvenience could lead to drama for this tight knit group? You tell us. Will it be a broken nail? A missing golf-club? A yacht that's too small to fit everyone on it? The audience decides!
Each show is a unique creation for and by its audience, and will delight you with drama, love and laughter.
This performance is recommended for audiences aged 15+
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- March 2022
O M Glee its Show Choir!!
In true Show Choir fashion this show is at centre of our cheese loving hearts. Whether you’re a diva like Rachel or a dad dancer like Finn, this show will have you up on your feet belting out your favourite glee classics and more.
With songs to boogie, belt and cry to, this show proves to maintain our reviews of being “the best night out in Cambridge”. To see what everyone’s raving about grab yourself a ticket and buckle up for a night out where every song is an anthem!
- March 2022
Singin’ in the Rain brings you the classic, golden-age movie musical adapted for the stage, featuring some of the best-loved comedy routines, toe-tapping dance numbers, and classic musical theatre songs: “Good Mornin’”, “Make ‘em Laugh”, “Broadway Melody”, and the show-stopping title number “Singin’ in the Rain”. The show captures the Hollywood movie transition from silent pictures to the new ‘talkies’, following film co-stars Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont. When Monumental Studios turns silent ‘The Dueling Cavalier’ into an all-singing, all-dancing ‘The Dancing Cavalier’, they are faced with a problem – Lina’s shrill and squeaky voice which might just end her career. As Kathy Selden, an aspiring actress, steps in to save the studio, she begins to fall in love, leaving Don Lockwood with difficult decisions both on and off screen. Pouring with laughs, charm, romance, and wit, expect high-energy dance routines and classic songs from the movie, added with its spectacular stage effects for this year’s Lent Term Musical!
- March 2022
Second Generations: Ice-cream Tubs and Tupperware - a night full of spicy surprises!
Tell your parents you’re in the library and join us in the third space, where cultures can clash and aunties are on the lash. Introducing the freshest comedians of colour on the block, this sketch show will make you laugh harder than a burnt roti. Brought to you by Bread, the company behind Second Generation and Second Generation: Integrated (the titles are getting progressively more snappy, I suppose).
- March 2022
The Marlowe Society's annual BME Shakespeare is Much Ado About Nothing, and will take place in Week 7 of Lent! This year's production will be a joyful celebration of BME talent, including acting, dance and music!
- March 2022
Spring Revue is one of the biggest events in the Cambridge comedy calendar, showcasing the talents of comedians within the current Footlights membership. And this year, the Footlights want to bring you the most exciting and audacious sketch show Cambridge has ever seen. As the creative culmination of the 2021-22 Footlights membership, expect a show bursting at the seams with wicked wit, unforgettable characters, and even non-complimentary ice cream at the interval.
- February 2022
The CUMTS gala night is a one-hour show all-singing, all-dancing celebration of musical theatre! With the band on stage we perform polished choreo with stunning vocals. We will select a range of classic MT songs, songs from lesser known productions, and some student-written numbers
- February 2022
You can’t be what you can’t see. Teetering on the edge of manhood, 18 year old Jonno spends his summer days playing footy with his best mate Sol. He’s desperate for a role model but on Holly Grove council estate, a decent father figure is hard to come by, and the only heroes he’s ever known wear football boots. He’s never met his dad and normally this doesn't cross his mind. Except on days like today. One fateful Father’s Day in East London, Jonno finally comes face-to-face with the dad he’s always wanted. New bonds are formed whilst others come crashing down and Jonno has to learn that there is more than one way to be a "good man.”
Winner of the 2021 Marlowe Other Prize and the inaugural Mustapha Matura Award.
- February 2022
Have you ever wondered what a silent character might be thinking? One that is denied a voice, or pushed so strongly to fit a designed role that they lose most of their individuality? The new and exciting (Re)Present Monologue Night, in tandem with the Marlowe society, hopes to give voice to these previously underrepresented characters, with student-written monologues championing those not given the chance to fully speak. Either revising from what a Renaissance author has written, or completely re-characterising a figure with new contexts and ideas, the (Re)Present night will be a fascinating experiment in adaptation and re-configuration.
- February 2022
Leontes, the crazed ringmaster, succumbs to a deluded idea that his wife, Hermione is having an affair. Their infant daughter is banished to the land of Bohemia where she is adopted by a Shepherd and his son a clown. In this vibrant and dangerous world, we see an exploration of new and exciting experiences through curious movement within the world of the circus.
- February 2022
Tired of Tinder? Bored of Bumble? Ground down by Grindr? This Valentine's come and meet someone the old fashioned way, in a dark room surrounded by 200 strangers... Dragtime!'s kings, queens and inbetweens are back again and this time they've got love on the brain. Prepare to swoon as Cambridge's premiere drag troupe tease you, titillate you and tug on your heart strings, with acts featuring singing, lip sync, spoken word, pole dance, burlesque, live music and more!
- February 2022
When a deranged boy, Alan Strang, blinds six horses with a metal spike he is sentenced to psychiatric treatment. Dr Dysart is the man given the task of uncovering what happened the night Strang committed his crime, but in doing so will open up his own wounds. Dysart struggles in secret to define sanity, to justify his marriage, to account for his career, and finds himself questioning the 'normality' of his way of life. Ultimately, he must ask himself: is it patient or psychiatrist whose life is being laid bare? The most shocking play of its day, Equus uses an act of violence to explore faith, insanity and how the materialism of modern life can destroy humanity's capacity for pain and passion.
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Loosely based on Puccini’s opera La Bohème, RENT is a Putlizer Prize and four-time Tony Award musical that follows a year in the life of a group of struggling young artists living in Manhattan’s East Village. Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, struggles to find his place in the world; his roommate Roger, an HIV-positive musician, wonders how he will leave his mark before he dies. Mimi and Angel look for true love as they face the harsh reality of life when HIV-positive, while the lawyer Joanne seeks loyalty from her flirtatious performance artist girlfriend Maureen. The group’s dreams, losses, and love stories weave through the musical’s narration to paint a stunningly raw and heart-breaking portrait of the gritty bohemian world of New York City in the late 1980s, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
- February 2022
Marx, Jesus and Mufasa walk into a bar… Who wouldn’t wanna know what happens next!
In Heaven and Hell, we ask the red-hot pokery questions which the establishment doesn't want you to think about… What happens when Heaven gets bought out by Facebook? Should Judge Rinder win Hell’s employee of the month? And for Christsake (get it?), does Batman need to go on a mindfulness course?
We've risked our spiritual salvation to make you heathens giggle, so please come and make our punishment worth it. You’ll be bellyaching all through this rip-roaring hour of sketch banter. Heaven and Hell is transsubstantially the spiciest thing since Beelzebub’s butter chicken special. Be there or burn in Hell.
- February 2022
When Doctor Stockmann discovers that the water in the Municipal Baths of his small Norwegian hometown is poisoned, he immediately takes action to make the information public and warn the town’s citizens. As soon as the town’s Mayor, the Doctor’s elder sibling, gets a hold of this information he attempts to dissuade him and undermine his efforts, knowing that the local economy and social well-being of the community depend on the spa. In the crisis that ensues, public opinion turns against Dr Stockmann as both him and his family lose their social and economic standing in the community.
‘Dr Stockmann: I propose to raise a revolution against a lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth. What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports/'
Henrik Ibsen, widely held as the ‘Father of Modern Drama’, tells an emotionally poignant tale of the possibilities and limitations of integrity, love, and honour. Does democracy have the power to destroy ‘the truth’ when public opinion can be easily mobilised against it? And if it does, can we still call it a democracy? Does ‘the truth’ have the power to destroy a local community, or family? And if it does, should it?
- January 2022
Eidolon is the Ancient Greek word for ghost, dream, or vision, and the play is meant to be a dream-like fairytale or folk-story, making use of familiar, yet unsettling, archetypes, and playing with the border between fiction and reality. The story follows Sasha, a nonbinary immortal jester who interacts with the audience and also functions as the play's narrator, Þjórsá, the play's main character, a very confused and reluctant hero, and Penelope, a prophetess who's come to rescue her old love, on a journey through the dark woods, along which they meet ravens, monsters and old gods.
- January 2022
A sketch show which will be dark and satirical in bent, concerning itself with FOOD! How do we consume it? Market it? How do we perceive/judge others who eat/don't eat certain foods? Gets to the heart of people, no? COMEDY!
- January 2022
- January 2022
An Unsustainable Mess is a climate change themed sketch show that'll have millennial tigers, competitive knitwear, and a wind turbine that dreams of a better life...it’s going to be totes-bags amazeballs.
- January 2022
After a year long hiatus, CUMTS 24 Hour Musical is back!
On a cold January night, performers, composers, directors and choreographers will be tasked with putting together a 1 hour musical in 24 hours based on a yet to be revealed theme!
Come one come all at 9pm on Tuesday 18th of January to watch the culmination of the most exciting day and night of cambridge musical theatre hit the stage !!
- January 2022
A new version of the enduring classic: KIPPS is Half a Sixpence but with even more Flash-Bang-Wallop!
Arthur Kipps is an over-worked draper’s assistant at the turn of the last century. He is a charming but ordinary young man who dreams of a better world, but when he unexpectedly inherits a fortune that propels him into high society, it confuses everything he thought he knew about life.
This is the 2016 revival version which took the West End by storm with dazzling showmanship and amazing song and dance numbers. The new book is by Julian Fellowes, with a brilliantly infectious new score by Stiles and Drewe that imbues the original and much loved music with a joyous verve.
- December 2021
Mizzis Horrocks’ class of seven year olds is about to perform their nativity play at Flint Street Junior School for the proud mums and dads. Squabbles arise when Gabriel wants to play Mary, the Star grumbles he’s not a proper star like they have at NASA, Herod won’t stop waving to his mum and dad, and the subversive Innkeeper is determined to liven up the traditional script. And then the stick insect escapes… The children are played by adults in this warm, witty, funny play by the author of Calendar Girls, featuring songs with original lyrics set to the tunes of familiar Christmas carols.
- December 2021
Welcome to The Man Presents: Anyone But The Man!
The Man is back and oh yes you guessed it, he is presenting yet again. Following the hilarious successes of The Man Presents comedy nights in the past, we are now taking over the ADC for a full run. Join us for an hour of comedy monologues written and performed by Cambridge's funniest women and non-binary people.
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- November 2021
Do you need a hero? Show Choir is back and ready to supply the killer moves and musical melodies to help!
To celebrate Show Choir's valiant return to the ADC stage we will be performing some of your most missed pop tunes. Show Choir will be going ‘Zero to Hero’ with this return to the stage as it feels like ‘For the First time in forever’!
We’ve all been ‘Holding out for a hero’ this past year and Show Choir can’t wait to bop, boogie and belt our way back into what is set to an amazing show! Come along for some killer harmonies, magic moves and cheesy choir fun! See you there!
- November 2021
Had a rough year? We know how to cure those blues - no cis men, no script, no worries! Comic Sans is BACK, and this time, we’re handing the mic to all underrepresented genders! So get out of those joggers and into your glad rags. Come to ‘objectively the most ridiculous and hilarious show you will ever see’ - probably Emma Thompson (at some point, maybe...).
- November–December 2021
Welcome to Rapunzel! In a land where art has been banned and all the Dames have been banished, can this kingdom be brought back to life?
In a dastardly plan to keep them away from his crown, the evil King sends his nephew and niece, Prince Victor and Princess Stella, on a quest to save Rapunzel from her dragon-guarded tower in the hopes that they perish. Along the way they instead encounter adventure, hilarity, and friendship. Join Victor and Stella on their way to save Rapunzel and, ultimately, the entire kingdom.
Rapunzel brings live pantomimes back with a queer and colourful bang. A celebration of individuality and self-love, Rapunzel is not to be missed.
- November 2021
- November 2021
This November, the ADC Theatre’s Freshers Mainshow is Alan Ayckbourn’s ‘A Small Family Business', taking you to the 1980s where Jack McCracken, a man of principle in a corrupt world, gets the chance of a lifetime - to take over his family’s furniture business. There’s just one problem: he’s just found out his family is, how do you put it… criminally gifted. After being approached by a private detective armed with revealing information, the morally straight Jack must figure out how he and his corrupt family can survive. The tangled world of Jack and his family of thieves and cheats guarantees to make you both hold your breath and burst out laughing.
Everyone involved in this production is new to Cambridge theatre, so this promises to be an exciting show for all who are keen to show their support for the next generation of Cambridge thespians. ‘A Small Family Business’ promises to be a big week in Cambridge theatre!
- November 2021
A Comprehensive Understanding is a hilarious sketch show packed with character and sketch comedy. All the cast and production team are from state school or disadvantaged backgrounds; platforming new writing, directing and comedic talent.
- November 2021
The Old Bailey Alumni Network is a new, devised production that brings to life stories from the archives of the Old Bailey Courthouse. It is a huge party, a who’s-who of the most audacious, gregarious, and fun-loving Londoners from the eighteenth century, and we get to hear their stories, live their memories and celebrate life with them!
