ADC Theatre: Shows

Footlights presents
Good for You
by Daran Johnson and Liam Williams
Tuesday 5th October - Saturday 9th October
£7/£6

In their 127th year the Cambridge Footlights return with a brand-new generously-sized helping of sketch comedy. The Tour Show is the biggest and most prestigious show of the year from the biggest and most prestigious student comedy troupe in the world.

Fresh from another great year at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and a tour of America, enjoy the world famous Cambridge Footlights live onstage as they return home from their annual comic odyssey. This is the original comedy that stormed the ADC Theatre for two weeks of previews in June, honed on the road over the summer both sides of the Atlantic, by this cast of highly talented and hard-working comedians.

Previous Tour Shows have kick-started the comedy careers of countless famous faces. And this year it’s going to be better than ever. So get involved. Because this is where it all begins.

"This show got me laughing and thinking in equal measure. So – good for you? Yes" -Varsity

Cambridge Footlights presents
Footlights Smoker
by Footlights
Tuesday 12th October - Tuesday 23rd November
£6/£5

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 seven years running, so book early to avoid disappointment!

The Marlowe Society presents
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield
Wednesday 13th October - Saturday 16th October
£7-£5

No time for Timon? Schedule too tight for Titus? Us too! - For your convenience The Marlowe Society presents 37 plays (and a few poems) in 57 minutes! Join our madcap troups in tights as they weave their way through all of Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies in a wild ride that will leave you helpless with laughter.

"Gloriously funny." (Financial Times)

"Pithier than Python. Irresistible." (New York Times)

"The funniest show you are likely to see in your entire lifetime." (Montreal Gazette)

"What cheek! What nerve! What sheer, heavenly, unadulterated fun!" (Sunday Express)

"A madcap condensation that features non-stop laughs. Done at a whirlwind pace and with great delight, they are sure to win over even the most skeptical. And there is no doubt that Shakespeare himself would approve." (Daily Variety)

"If you like shakespeare, you'll like this show. If you hate Shakespeare, you'll love this show!" (The Today show)

CUADC presents
The Life Doctor
by Adam Lawrence and Phil Wang
Wednesday 27th October - Saturday 30th October
£6-£4

This October, experience the greatest TV show never shown. Filmed in international British locations, and with a cast of hundreds, The Life Doctor was too overwhelmingly brilliant for any mainstream television network to take on: 'It's just too overwhelmingly brilliant for us to take on' - BBC Three, 'Why don't you ask BBC Three?' - BBC One, 'How did you get this number?' - MTV Base.

Written and directed by Adam Lawrence ('undoubted talent') and Phil Wang ('skillful and hilarious'), join the Life Doctor as he endeavours to fix the problems of three unfortunate participants.

There will be laughs (lots). There will be dramatic entrances (two to three). There will be product placement (negotiable). It's the most ambitious ADC Lateshow of all time, so don't miss out.

Your appointment is booked. This October, laughter definitely is the best medicine.

Improvised Comedy Ents presents
ICE Ages
Tuesday 16th November
£6/£5

The wheel turns; the ages move on; chocolate bars get renamed. Only the few can survive. Only those capable of outperforming the previous generation. Only those capable of turning audience suggestions into hilarious comedy. Improvised Comedy Ents brings you the greatest struggle ever told... in Cambridge... this term.

Come join us as a team of up and coming improvisers competing against a returing cohort of the old guard in a slew of games based entirely on your suggestions. Cheer as a pineapple escapes from a maximum security prison. Gasp as a team of seventeen taxidermists discover they are all identical twins. Help us unveil the terrible truth behind the disappearance of the Marmite.

Dark secrets will be revealed as the new generation battles through the ultimate tests of life. Only the funniset will survive.

No scripts? No rehersals? No second chances!