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28 November 2019

Cambridge University Ballet Club presents Scheherazade: The Tale of a Thousand and One Nights

Cambridge University Ballet Club presents its very first production for the ADC Theatre. Their original ballet, 'Scheherazade: The Tale of One Thousand and One Nights', will appear in early December as a closing show of this season.

28 November 2019

Interviewing the Directors of THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS

With less than two weeks until The Wind in the Willows performs at the ADC Theatre, we spoke to the show's directors, Maddie Forrester and Helen McCallum, about what makes this show a classic.

12 November 2019

Interviewing the Writer and Director of RUST

'Rust' is an award-winning original musical coming to the ADC Theatre after its critically-acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We woke to the show's writer, HELENA FOX, and director, IZZY COLLIE-COUSINS, about their production.

21 October 2019

An Interview with the Director of Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night is arriving at the ADC Theatre nexxt week. The show's director, ISSY SNAPE, talks to us about transporting Shakespeare's story to a new time and place.

11 October 2019

Staging Danai Gurira's 'The Convert' in Black History Month | An Interview with Director Dami Laoye

October is Black History Month, and from Tuesday 22 to Saturday 26 October we are proud to be staging Danai Gurira’s ‘The Convert’, starring the largest all-black cast the ADC Theatre has seen. In this interview, Director Dami Laoye discusses the play’s importance to the present day and what he hopes a modern audience will take from its compelling interrogation of a pivotal point in colonial history.

23 September 2019

Five Questions You Always Want to ask an Improvised Theatre Company

The Ministry of Unplanned Occurrences are bringing their latest improvised comedy drama, ‘The Apartment’, to the Corpus Playroom at the end of this month (26-28 September). In this blog, they answer the questions they most often get asked about the shows they make.

17 July 2019

Autumn at the ADC Theatre: Theatre Manager's Welcome

In this blog post, incoming Theatre Manager Jamie Rycroft reveals what the Autumn 2019 season has in store.

28 June 2019

The 'Occupational Hazards' of Improv Comedy

In this interview, the company of 'Occupational Hazards' tell us about their strangest experiences at work, what we can expect from the show, as well as the occupational hazards of being an improviser.

17 May 2019

Directing Sarah Ruhl's 'In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)' for the ADC Stage

Assistant Producer Sarah Robertson interviews Director Alex Ridley about 'In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)', which opens at the ADC Theatre next week!

14 May 2019

Adapting Christopher Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus' for a Post-Theistic Age

In this interview, Directors Atlanta Hatch and Lottie Reeder explain the thinking behind their exciting new adaptation of Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus', which opens at the Corpus Playroom next week.