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Summer Season 2010

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New Box Office System

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This week

The Crucible
Tuesday 9th February - Saturday 13th February
One of the greatest plays of the 20th century, ‘The Crucible’ is a thrilling and profoundly moving exploration of the suspicion and paranoia which led to the Salem witch-trials. (more...)

Smoker
Tuesday 26th January - Tuesday 9th March
The Footlights bring you the funniest songs, sketches, monologues (more...)

Silent Canonfire
Wednesday 10th February - Saturday 13th February
A COMPLETELY SILENT SWASHBUCKLING PIRATICAL ADVENTURE! Huzzah! Silent explosions! Silent swordplay! Silent treasure! Silent dead people! What could be better? (more...)

Alcock Improv
Wednesday 10th February - Saturday 13th February
'Spontaneous fun from Alcock Improv as they take your suggestions and turn them into comedy gold! Not to be missed!' (more...)

Naked Stage
Sunday 24th January - Sunday 21st February, ADC Theatre Larkum Studio
Part two of the sellout staged reading series from Cambridge's open scriptwriting forum, WRiTEON. Short plays in development, lightly staged, in a near-bare studio. Your feedback sought on each night (more...)

Next week

The Invention of Love
Tuesday 16th February - Saturday 20th February
The fascinating and conflicted life of A.E. Housman: a spellbinding show by one of Britain’s best playwrights. (more...)

Cadenza
Tuesday 16th February - Saturday 20th February
Cambridge University's premier mixed a cappella sensation perform your favourite pop and rock classics, from Annie Lennox to Bon Jovi. (more...)

Three Tales
Wednesday 17th February - Saturday 20th February
Intensely affecting, this seamless blend of music, video and speech combine to create what has been termed as “the 21st century’s first genuinely unique art-form”; a heart-stopping barrage on the senses that will leave you breathless. (more...)

Songs from the Musicals
Sunday 21st February
CUMTS is pleased to present once again one of its ever-popular cabaret evenings in the bar. (more...)

ADC Ticketing

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Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club presents
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
Tuesday 9th February - Saturday 13th February
£6 - £9

“You’re the Devil’s man! I’ll not hang with you! I love God, I love God.”

It is 1692 in Salem, and there's magic in the air. Religious fervour and sexual repression come into explosive conflict as accusations of witchcraft spread through the town like fire, fuelled by paranoia and hatred. John Proctor finds himself trapped in a web of deceit and suspicion as his past sins come back to haunt him, and the hysterical youth of Salem lead a crusade against the forces of the devil. In 'The Crucible', one of the greatest plays of the 20th century, Arthur Miller brilliantly weaves together the damaged world of Proctor and his wife with the madness sweeping through the town, creating a profoundly moving theatrical experience which audiences will find utterly unforgettable.

This production will take place in a shadowy world of judgment and fear, imprisoning the audience in an atmosphere of rising tension up until the play’s harrowing conclusion.

Cambridge Footlights presents
Smoker
Tuesday 26th January - Tuesday 9th March
£5 - £6

Footlights bring you the funniest songs, sketches, monologues and stand-up in an hour of non-stop, 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 six years running, so book early to avoid disappointment!

Silent Canonfire
by Will Seaward
Wednesday 10th February - Saturday 13th February
£4 - £6

A COMPLETELY SILENT swashbuckling PIRATICAL ADVENTURE, live! Never has such a thing been attempted by humankind! Based on the lives real, actual pirates, brimming with the eerie creaking of silent boards, the deafening howl of silent gales, the jingle of silent treasure, the roar of silent explosions, the cries of silent maidens, the singing of silent mermaids, silent canonfire, uproarious silent drinking songs, silent bravado, silent love, silent rivalry, silent swordplay, silent dead people, silent hats, silent weevils, silent facial hair and the clamour of silent battles, this absolutely unique, mighty, rollicking, dangerously exciting, once in a lifetime piece of insane theatrical daring from the director of ‘Bouncy Castle Hamlet’ (“triumphant success” The Guardian, “genius” Metro) is coming to the Larkum Studio from 10th to the 13th of February! It’s not a joke! It’s a real, live, corporeal, tangible experience (and an exciting experiment in pure semiotics to boot)! Huzzah!

Alcock Improv presents
Alcock Improv
Wednesday 10th February - Saturday 13th February
£5 - £6

Alcock Improv are back! Prepare for a night of spontaneous fun as Alcock Improv, Cambridge’s best-loved improvised comedy group, bring you a show that is COMPLETELY UNPREPARED, but couldn’t be more ready to go. Taking your suggestions, our improvisers will tell stories, play games, sing songs and much, much more, turning your ideas into comedy gold. Featuring some of Cambridge’s top comedians, Alcock Improv bring you four completely different nights of fun and games at the ADC Theatre, meaning you can go again, and again, and again, and then once more. Don’t miss out!

'Spontaneous fun from Alcock Improv as they take your suggestions and turn them into comedy gold! Not to be missed!'

WRiTEON presents
Naked Stage
Sunday 24th January - Sunday 21st February, ADC Theatre Larkum Studio
£4 - £5

WRiTEON's Naked Stage - Take Two

Part two of the sellout staged reading series from Cambridge's open scriptwriting forum, WRiTEON. Short plays in development, lightly staged, in a near-bare studio. Your feedback sought on each night.

Naked Stage
Be part of the art.

WRiTEON offers many oppportunities to take part throughout the year. See the website for details.

www.writeon.org.uk