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Next week

Canterbury Tales
Tuesday 7th February - Saturday 11th February
You are warmly invited to attend an evening of storytelling. Prepare yourself for bawdiness, humour, tragedy and merriment in a quick tour through Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’. (more...)

Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra
Tuesday 7th February
CUJO return to the ADC for a night of classic swing favourites and crazy latin/funk charts. (more...)

Bereavement: The Musical
Wednesday 8th February - Saturday 11th February
Bereavement is a song and dance. Watch people singing and dancing about it. (more...)

Coming soon

Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra
Tuesday 7th February
CUJO return to the ADC for a night of classic swing favourites and crazy latin/funk charts. (more...)

Bereavement: The Musical
Wednesday 8th February - Saturday 11th February
Bereavement is a song and dance. Watch people singing and dancing about it. (more...)

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Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club presents
Canterbury Tales
Chaucer (adapted by Mike Poulton)
Tuesday 7th February - Saturday 11th February
Tue & Wed £8/£6, Thu-Sat £10/£8

Come and join the revelry as a group of pilgrims entertain one another with stories as they journey to Canterbury Cathedral. There are tales of morality and warning from the Prioress and Physician; bawdiness and comedy from the Miller and Reeve and watch out for the Monk, who never ceases to ‘bewail in manner tragical’!

Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ may be familiar to a few English students ... But have you ever considered them expressed through a variety of genres including puppetry, physical theatre and operetta style? You may be surprised (and delighted) to discover that people in the 14th century were not all that different from us!

Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra presents
Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra
Tuesday 7th February
£6/£5

Cambridge's premier vehicle for promoting and performing jazz in the University and beyond returns to the ADC for one night only. They have won gold awards in UK-wide big band competitions and have collaborated with world-famous musicians, composers and arrangers such as Mark Nightingale, Gareth Lockrane, Steve Waterman, Issie Barratt and Mike Gibbs. The band regularly tours abroad, having played in top venues such as the Casa del Jazz in Rome, the Budapest Jazz Club, and the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival.

CUMTS presents
Bereavement: The Musical
Jeff Carpenter and Máirín O'Hagan
Wednesday 8th February - Saturday 11th February
Wed £5/£4, Thu-Sat £6/£5

Bereavement is a song and dance. Watch people singing and dancing about it.

In this brand-new comedy musical, the big secret about bereavement is revealed: no-one really knows what they should be doing. Curtain up and spotlight on six characters as they blunder through bereavement’s funny little cabaret, trying to make sense of grief and the unexpected extras it throws up. But once you’ve survived the barrage of tasteless funerals; needless guilt; ‘helpful’ advice and useless clichés, is anyone any the wiser about what it really means to lose someone? Following the success of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Jet Set Go! and Jerry Springer the Opera, CUMTS is proud to present its first new-writing musical.

From the writers of The Orphanarium of Erthing Worthing (*****, The Tab), A Children's Guide to the Birth of Christ (“Fantastic” TCS) and the ADC/Footlights Pantomime: Treasure Island (*****, Varsity), this musical promises to teach you nothing at all.