ADC Theatre: Welcome

CUCDW presents
Swagger
Tuesday 24th January - Saturday 28th January
Tue & Wed £8/£6, Thu-Sat £10/£8

Do you have Swagger? Continuing their annual tradition of sell-out dance shows, the Cambridge University Contemporary Dance Workshop Society returns to the ADC with some of the hottest, classiest, and most talented dancers that Cambridge has to offer. Swagger will feature performances ranging from ballet to hip hop, to classical Indian Bharatanatyam, and all things in between! Swagger is all about displaying funky fresh ways to move and groove.

Come and shimmy with the belly dancers, pop with the hip-hoppers, pirouette with the ballerinas and shake it with the rock'n'rollers! With unique twists and turns, expect the unexpected and don't miss the chance to strut your stuff and Swagger!

PICK ME UP
Lowell Belfield, Jason Forbes, Ryan O’Sullivan and George Potts
Wednesday 25th January - Saturday 28th January
Wed £5/£4, Thu-Sat £6/£5

PICK ME UP was advertised in our season brochure with the working title Particulars.

Lowell Belfield, Jason Forbes, George Potts, and Ryan O'Sullivan present PICK ME UP, a brand new sketch show directed by Ahir Shah. Through a combination of atmospheric setting, strong characterisation and jokes, these Smoker regulars will have you laughing and also in a theatre.

Featuring writers and performers from Broody, Now, Now, the Footlights Spring Revue and the ADC/Footlights Pantomime, PICK ME UP promises to change your entire life for an hour.

Recent praise for the writers/performers…

'A scarily instinctive knowledge of what makes audiences tick.' - Varsity

'One of the best things to happen to Cambridge comedy for some time.' - The Tab

Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society presents
Musical Theatre Bar Night
Monday 30th January, ADC Bar
£7/£6

Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society is pleased to once more present one of its ever-popular cabaret evenings. Featuring the very best of Cambridge performers singing a wide range of Musical Theatre classics, a live band, and plenty of breaks to top up at the bar, this promises to be a hugely enjoyable evening.

Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club presents
Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertolt Brecht
Tuesday 31st January - Saturday 4th February
Tue & Wed £8/£6, Thu-Sat £10/£8

'It isn't easy, starting a war, but nothing worthwhile is easy. And once you're in, you're hooked like a gambler, you can't afford to walk away from the crapshoot once you're deep into it.'

Mother Courage, formidable, vibrant, battleaxe of a woman, makes her living following armies up and down the country, peddling salvaged goods amidst a war-torn wasteland. With her she brings her two sons and dumb daughter, dragging behind them their battered cart, both home and business in times of conveniently profit-surging violence. Through them we meet a disarming world of brutality and charm, temperamental soldiers, braggart cooks and cowardly chaplains, as Courage continues in her unyielding venture, buying, selling, surviving, however great the cost. Matching the thrilling quality of its characters is a production of titanic proportions, bringing to you this Lent one of the most astonishing stage creations of the 20th century, a story that is utterly beautiful and utterly devastating.

'It's too long since they had a war here . . . where's their sense of morality to come from?

Don't tell me peace has broken out again.'

Footlights presents
Footlights Smokers
Tuesday 31st January - Tuesday 13th March
£7/£6

Footlights bring you the funniest songs, sketches, monologues and stand up in an hour of nonstop, back-to-back fun-filled hilarity. The material is always original and always varied. It can be soft and silly; rude and spikey; wordy and nerdy or a little surreal-whatever the style, it’s always ‘uproariously funny’ (Varsity).

They’ve sold out the ADC Theatre for so many years that we’ve stopped counting, so book early to avoid disappointment!

Thyestes
Seneca (trans. Frank Justus Miller, adaptation Phil Howe)
Wednesday 1st February - Saturday 4th February
Wed £5/£4, Thu-Sat £6/£5

The raw brutality of Seneca’s Thyestes has shocked and horrified audiences for almost two thousand years, even inspiring one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays, Titus Andronicus. Exiled Thyestes begs his brother Atreus’ forgiveness and seeks to end the curse on their household, but Atreus is not ready to let go quite yet.

With characters locked in a never-ending struggle for control, the furious pace and outrageous spectacle of this play is brought from the court of Nero to the heart of Cambridge. Blurring the boundaries between theatre and reality, this production of Seneca’s classic tragedy brings its raw brutality full circle, right round to the dark comedy and intricate meta-theatre inherent in the text.

Taking the staging of revenge to its logical conclusion, this tragic villain knows no act of retaliation is complete without the right audience.

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