Past shows at Pembroke New Cellars

• Five Night Stand

  February 2004
  Five Night Stand will comprise five nights of stand-up comedy with a different comedian each night. It offers comedians the rare opportunity to experiment with sustained stand-up in Cambridge.

• The House with the Twisty Windows

  November 2003
  "Shall I tell you what you heard just now? Nothing in the world but your own terrors calling" Locked in a cellar during the Red Terror in St Petersburg, 5 British people are held captive, unsure of their future. After 6 weeks as the strain is starting to show, each individual responds to the pressure in different ways: one focuses on maintaining her beautiful image, another resorts to British stiff upper lip, a third survives through exaggerated concern for others. Into this situation steps a small man, Derry Moore, "the Irish Hans Andersen", who has been mistakenly captured in place of his counter-revolutionary brother. Derry relieves the tension by helping the captives to get lost in a tale of leprechauns and wonderful colours - the fairy tale of the title.

• Guys and Dolls

  November 2003

• A Servant to Two Masters

  October–November 2003
  Set in 18th century Venice, A Servant To Two Masters is a classic tale of love, honour, sun-dried tomatoes, and Truffaldino- a servant trying his best to earn an extra lira. Underpaid and over-stretched, Truffaldino scurries through mishap after mishap as he performs chores for two unwitting masters: Florindo, and his lover, Beatrice, in disguise as her dead brother. As excuses for his mistakes become more fanciful, chaos ensues - mistaken identities, betrothals, duels, near-suicide and a fabulous feast twice-enjoyed occur, before Truffaldino is finally found out. With its colourful array of comic characters, Carlo Goldini´s farce, given a new lease of life by Lee Hall´s recent adaptation, mixes historical Italy and classic 18th century commedia with cockney cheek.

• God

  March 2003
  Controlled mayhem.

• Bedtime Story

  November 2002

• Our Town

  November 2002

• After the Fall

  October–November 2002

• Monkey

  March 2002